How would you know if we were a Trinity Tiger?

Since the international students come here primarily for the quality of education that the US provides, we try to acclimatize with the culture and the surroundings of Trinity in a manner that it might become difficult for a normal Tiger to spot us as a ‘different’ Tiger!
But never the less, there are always ways by which you can spot us bang on. There they are:

1. We know a hell lot about almost every Airline. And we can have a conversation about which is better and how the other one sucks for hours (literally. Eavesdrop on our conversations when we have just returned back from home and you would come to know how bad the food was or how good an airport was. You will get to know the essentials of travelling!)

2. We talk about sports like cricket, hockey (not ice hockey, but hockey played on grass) and have world cup tournaments that seem absurd to be heard of.

3. When you enter our rooms, there is a peculiar smell that smells because of all the food that comes from our homes or the one that we cook. A smell for each country.

4. You would spot us talking for hours a night. And no, we would not be talking to a certain special one, but our homes because that is the only time that we can surpass the time difference!

5. We are huge fans of skype and will force you to use it if we come to know that you don’t

6. We don’t know how to react when our friends say that they are sad because they are far away from home! (okay kidding, we know exactly how you feel. We can’t go home more than once a year, either)

7. You would us suddenly talking in a foreign language when we are too excited about anything

8. And finally you would spot us because of the ethnic cloths that we sometimes wear

But I think, if you are friends with any one of the international students, you know that they are international and miss home because they are constantly talking about it. So read through the news feed and get to know the current happenings in our countries!

The diversity on the campus is celebrated in such a fond manner that while we celebrate the individuality that resides in each one of us, we are a part of the Trinity community at the end and all of us are Tigers (whether striped or not)!!