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First-person account of the life and prospects of international pupils.The graduation gown of the school was a uniform blue, but when the students lined up for the final photos they could not look more different from one another.
The picture my father took of me and my friends included an American born in Egypt, a Chinese girl, and a Dutch girl - and there was my friend Annelie, who is half-Swedish and half-Sri Lankan.
My school was the Overseas School in Colombo, Sri Lanka, an International School attended by what educators call "Third Culture Kids" - young people who grow up in two or more different cultures and try to live with their own, "third," mix of this experience.
Around 17,000 German students attended German Schools overseas in 2006, part of a growing group of such children, Melanie Schulz from the German Foreign Office told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The daughter of a German father working in international development, I first went to Sri Lanka when I was barely 17.
Two years later and back in Germany, my world appears very different to me and to that of other teenagers in my home town Dortmund in western Germany.
"It is strange to see people in suburban terraces, who finish school, do local apprenticeships, marry their kindergarten sweetheart, have two children, and just seem to stay in a little world for the rest of their lives," says Jenni Griewel, 21. Also from Germany, she finished one year abroad in Ireland in 2006.
Ruth Van Reken, from Indianapolis, a former nurse, who now works with children of diplomats, members of the army and missionary workers, confirms the overwhelming experience of children who grew up in different worlds.
"Life is learned in living out a full three-dimensional view rather than through history and geography books alone," she tells dpa.
I still remember the day when my father received a phone call in our Colombo flat and later told my younger sister and me that the LTTE had moved their attacks from the north of the country and bombed the airport in Colombo just 30 kilometres away from our flat.
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