- You can't answer the question: "Where are you from?"

- You speak two or more languages but can't spell in any of them.

- You flew before you could walk.

- You have a passport, but no driving license.

- Your life story uses the phrase "Then we went to..." five times (or six, or seven times...).

- You don't know where home is.

-You sort your friends by continent.

-Your second major is in a foreign language you already speak.

- You realise it really is a small world after all.

- You feel that multiple passports would be appropriate.

-Your high school memories include days when school was canceled due to tear gas, riots or bomb threats.

-You get back to the States and serously cannot remember the currency exchange.

-You think VISA is a document stamped in your passport, and not a plastic card you carry in your wallet.

-You automatically take off your shoes as soon as you get home.

-Half of your phone calls are unintelligible to those around you.

-You go to Pizza Hut or Wendy's and wonder why there's no chili sauce.

-You know the geography of the rest of the world, but not the geography of your own country.

-You have best friends in 5 different countries.

-It takes 24 hours to reach home in a plane.

-You can only call your parents at 8am and 8pm.

-Your high school football team had to play against itself- if it even had one.

-When you were in middle school you could walk into a bar and order a drink without being questioned.

-You got to go home twice a year- that's if you were lucky.

-You are a pro packer, you have done it so many times.

-When you return to the States you are overwhelmed with the number of choices in a grocery store.

-You are never content in one place, be it city, state or country for long. You're a mover.

-You never had a job until you finished college.

-Class reunions are not held at your old school. Not even close.

-Police, imported from a different country, guard your school carrying machine guns.

-You know everyone else in this group, because he/she went to school with one of your friends.

-Your passport has more stamps than a post office.

-You carry converters because you actually realise there are different types of outlets.

-You constantly feel the need to catch up with TV programmes, actors and songs you are not familiar with.

-You don't think its strange that you haven't talked to your best friend in a couple years, because you know you will always have a unique bond.

-You wake up in one country thinking you are in another.

-You don't even bother to change your watch when traveling.

-You hate subtitles because you know there is someone that can make an accurate translation- you!

-You have little or no contact with the locals but are best friends with people across the globe.

-You speak many broken languages at once when you are drunk (my favourite!).

-You start introducing yourself followed by your country of origin.

-You've had to change your passport because it's full, not because it's expired, and this several times during your school years.

-Paying a cop is not considered a bribe.

-You've only dated people from other countries.

-You're scared of going 'home' because you haven't been there in so long, and have changed so much, that you think people might not like you anymore.

-You have more than one driving license, none of which are valid at home, that, or you still can't drive.

-You greet people by bowing or kissing them on both cheeks.

-You and your siblings know different languages or at least studied different ones.

A condensed and slightly edited list lifted from the pages of Facebook (other sites are available). Although my arm was nearly quite literally twisted to 'stay connected' in this way and join the 21st century, I am pleased to have rediscovered so many old chums. So there you are.