How you know your kid lives in Lebanon

1) they sing songs in French they learned in school, and songs in Arabic they learned at church, and French songs translated into English they learned at school

2) they pretend they are the U. N on their plasma cars

3) they don't have school Friday because of All Saints Day, and no school Monday for the first day of Ashura ( Shiite Muslim holiday )

4) while playing in the sand box with a neighbor; his mom speaking to him in Norwegian , I'm speaking to the other mother in Arabic, while speaking to my kids in English 

5) Jonas asks to go to the bathroom at school by saying "khlas toilet" khlas means "stop it" one of his few Arabic words he uses combined with toilet = sentence