Third Culture Kid

I found this list and think it reveals just some of the odd things TCKs deal with. It's amazing because it mirrors my life so well...especially the last one! :)

*You know you're a TCK when:

-"Where are you from?" has more than one reasonable answer
-You flew before you could walk
-You had a passport years before your driver's license.
-You have frequent flyer accounts on multiple airlines.
-You constantly want to and do use said frequent flyer accounts to travel to new places.
-You know how to pack.
-You own personal appliances with 3 types of plugs, know the difference between 110 and 220 volts and realize that a transformer isn't always enough to make your appliances work.
-You fried a number of appliances during the learning process.
-You speak with authority on the quality of airline travel.
-You go into culture shock upon returning to your "home" country
-You get confused because US money isn't colour-coded.
-You feel odd being in the ethnic majority
-You wince when people mispronounce foreign words
-You sort your friends by continent
-Someone brings up the name of a team, and you get the sport wrong.
-You don't know where home is
-You realize it really is a small world, after all.
-You know the geography of the rest of the world, but you don't know the geography of your own country.

Emerald Bowl

So the Emerald Bowl was hilarious. First of all, I didn't even know such a bowl existed! But hey, it was a surprise my Seminoles made it to a bowl game...after such a horrible season. Secondly, I didn't know there were bowl games in December...again because the Seminoles usually get into a bowl game that is played in January, I guess you learn a lot when your season sucks. Thirdly...the sponsors of this bowl are just plain genius. I don't think I've laughed so hard during commercial breaks and actually looked forward to seeing commercials so much in my life. I found a snippet of an article about it and they described it so well I thought I'd quote part of it:

If you haven't caught the ads, they're as simple as they are absurd. In one, a chubby North European stands by a giant target as someone shoots arrows around the bull's-eye. The European coaches the archer, who is off-camera. Even when an arrow hits the dude in the leg, he remains cheerful. Then the tag line goes: "E. N. Encouraging Norwegians love Emerald Nuts."

Yes, it is completely ridiculous...but then again I think random things are hilarious! Like the Superbowl commercial for Tabasco sauce...there's a guy who's eating his pizza and you'll have to click the link to see what happens!

Anyways here are the four Emerald Nut commercial tag lines I saw while watching the Seminoles win the game. :)

Envious Nomads love Emerald Nuts! <--my absolute favorite one! Extreme Nurses
Electromagnetic Navigator
Entangled Nine-year-olds

I went on a hunt to try and find clips of these commercials, but alas I didn't find them. However, I did find other ones...

Official Website: (click "tv ads" at the top of the page, then click "hi" or "lo" connection speed)
Eccentric Matadors Exercising Religiously And Littering Do Not Use The Steamroller
Engrossed Manicurists Eventually Relay Advice Like Do Not Untie That String

Superbowl 2006:
Eagle-eyed Machete Enthusiasts Recognize A Little Druid Networking Under The Stairs

Superbowl 2005:
Umm...that's not true Jim. <--My siblings and I laughed so hard at this one and replayed it many times...we all decided the girl in this one is just plain strange and slightly creepy...but so much fun to imitate!