How to Know Your Child is an Expat

1. When meeting someone for the first time, or hearing me talk about someone for the first time she asks, "Does he speak Arabic, English or French?"

2. When drawing pictures, we have the following conversation:

     T: Mom, look at my picture. This is a garden and this is Mohammed's house.

     K: It looks great Tess. Who's Mohammed? (thinking it must be a boy in her class)

     T: The Prophet Mohammed, you know, from Saudi.

     K: Ahhhhh. Right. That Mohammed.

3. Ya-Ya got in trouble in class today and Katnye got two house points.

4. Her class recently did a unit called, "All About Me". They discussed where they were all from, what their countries flags looked like etc. They asked us to review and discuss some facts about our child's homeland prior to beginning the unit. 

     W: Tess, where are we from?

      T: We are Americi dad. 

5. And most recently, I've seen and heard some evidence of her attending a British school with British instructor's:

    -Ugh, it's taking just ages to get home.

    -That was a rubbish throw.

    -I am feeling very cross at you!