You know you're an Aramco Brat when...
3. You have a passport, but no driver's license.
4. You think California is cold.
5. You watch National Geographic specials and recognize someone.
6. You run into someone you know at every airport.
7. Conversations with friends take place at 6:00 in the morning or 10:00 at night.
8. Your life story uses the phrase "Then we went to..." five times.
9. You can speak with authority about the quality of various international airlines. (P.S. British Airways is the best)
10. You feel self conscious around all white people.
11. You get offended when someone turns down an offer for food.
11. You get offended when someone turns down an offer for food.
12. You live at school and go home for vacation.
13. You treasure pork and alcohol as highly-valued commodities.
15. You are fascinated by any wildlife bigger than a gecko.
17. You know that it's a small world.
19. You get all the jokes in Aladdin.
20. Rain is still one of the most wonderful sounds in the world.
22. Your wardrobe can only handle two seasons: hot and warm.
23. Your school memories include duck-and-cover drills and sonic booms.
24. You are used to being stared at.
25. You think VISA is a document stamped in your passport, and not a plastic card you carry in your wallet.
26. You call a chicken burrito a shawrma.
27. Your dorm room/apartment/living room looks a little like a museum with all the "exotic" things you have around.
29. You've woken up in the middle of the night to watch the Superbowl on cable.
30. You have sat in a "men's" or "women's" section in an airport, hospital, or restaurant.
31. You know the geography of the rest of the world, but you don't know the geography of your own country. (Isn't Philadelphia it's own state?)
32. Your best friends are from 5 different countries.
34. You ask your roommate when the houseboy is scheduled to come clean.
35. You read the international section before the comics.
36. You sort your friends by continent.
37. You don’t know where home is.
38. Every time you drink from a water fountain, you think, Water Is Life, Save It.
40. You can have an educated discussion on the quality/functionality of major International Airports around the world.
I guess I'm just aching to be in Saudi today. In my childhood home, on the streets I know, with the warmth and sunshine and endless swimming pool days. With the racquetball courts down the street, endless sand dunes and quading adventures. Shawarma's and Desi food and crazy Khobar streets, with their gold, stray cats and nauseating odors and fluids. And the beach. Oooh, the beach. The Commissary, its cheesebread, the palm trees, and the gates coming in.
Yes, I'm an Aramco brat.
My dad works for Saudi Aramco.
I hail to the small compound town of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
I am a TCK (Third Culture Kid).
And I love it.
Love,
Brittney
I guess I'm just aching to be in Saudi today. In my childhood home, on the streets I know, with the warmth and sunshine and endless swimming pool days. With the racquetball courts down the street, endless sand dunes and quading adventures. Shawarma's and Desi food and crazy Khobar streets, with their gold, stray cats and nauseating odors and fluids. And the beach. Oooh, the beach. The Commissary, its cheesebread, the palm trees, and the gates coming in.
Yes, I'm an Aramco brat.
My dad works for Saudi Aramco.
I hail to the small compound town of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
I am a TCK (Third Culture Kid).
And I love it.
Love,
Brittney
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