Bicultural and Bilingual Living

I'm wanting to get to know this community better. Last night I browsed through the titles of all journal entries from beginning to end. I read quite a few and only had time to comment on one. I got to \"know\" a few people just a little better. I know most people here have multinational connections, either personally or professionally or both. But how many of you live biculturally and bilingually (or multilingually) every day? I've been doing so for over twenty years. I have found that the \"internationalness\" of my life gives it a richness and challenge that I never foresaw when I started this adventure. I have perspectives, experiences, joys, and concerns that are often not fully shared or understood by my monocultural and monolingual friends and colleagues. For example, I just returned from living over three months in Iran while my family and I worked on international adoption. I am still deeply processing the experience in rare moments that I find in the midst of mothering my newly adopted baby and my older daughter. I still have no short, neat answer to the question, \"How was your trip?\" At best, my one word reply is: \"Complex!\"

So, I'm just wondering who else has a personal life that significantly crosses international borders every moment of every day....