Moving — Stories

Many people didn’t know what Pakistan was. Right after 9/11, they did…

My first relationship started in Costa Rica. Running around the city, beach trips, endless sunny days. It was perfect…

In Love, Adulthood, Better Late Than Never, Bouncing Back, Moving, Relationships, Resilience, WomanBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)24 March 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

The Roots We Carry

Though I may have felt alone at times, I never really was…

Friendships, Moving, Where Are You From?, ChangeBy Anita Krishnan (From Singapore, Australia & the United States. Currently quarantined in India, due to COVID-19)20 March 2021TCK, TCA, TCK TOWN, moving, university, friendship, friends, relationship, relationships, family, traditional, past, LDRComment

The Bittersweetness of an International Friendship

One of the neighbours we connected with was a family from the Netherlands. Their lives mirrored our own as they too had recently relocated with a toddler in tow, exactly the same age as ours...

Love For The Moment

I will always be on the move. I will always choose this path no matter how lonely it may get sometimes...

If Change Were a Person…

We were given one week’s notice to pack our bags and leave the country…

Returning To My Foreign Birthplace

“Where are you from?” Thrill and dread. That question we all prepare a thirty-second elevator pitch for…

Returning to the Ocean's Wave

I know how older people feel, when they return to a country abandoned long ago…

Fear, Moving, Water, AdulthoodBy Shannon Irby (From Ramstein, Tucson, Okinawa, Adana, D.C., San Antonio & Houston. Living in Okinawa.)16 January 2021tck, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, beach, ocean, childhood, resilienceComment

Keep It Secret

Anger is vicious, and knows not his strength. He wrestles and pulls, until Fear’s out of breath…

Anger, Asia, Black Lives Matter, MovingBy Shannon Irby (From Ramstein, Tucson, Okinawa, Adana, D.C., San Antonio & Houston. Living in Okinawa.)2 January 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, anger, Tck, tck, social, socialize, secret, Korea, South Korea, EnglishComment

Moving Back “Home”

My teachers weren’t interested that my life had been uprooted to return to a culture that I had little understanding of…

Education, School, MovingBy Natalie Silmon de Monerri (From London & Munich. Living in New York City)12 December 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

My Greatest Teacher

I was five when I fell in love. That instantaneous, all consuming, hard-to-breathe kind of love…

Cities, Advantages, North America, Moving, TravelBy Kirsty Lennox (From Glasgow, New York, Edinburgh, Auckland & London. Living in Wellington)18 November 2020TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, love, New York, explore, passport, labels, freedomComment

Letting Go of Everything but My Memories

0 years from now, I will have forgotten the way the mountains looked from my window in Costa Rica and how people grilled outside on weekends at the pulperia across the street…

MovingBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)30 September 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, Peru, Lima, moving, friends, moving countries, Costa Rica, Minnesota, USA, life, past, remember, memories Comment

Christmas, Costa Rica and Change

he busy streets normally filled with cars were replaced with loud, colorful parades…

Learning To Be a Diplomatic Mum

Imagine the chaos of the first few years: Romanian, German and English mixed together in a way that it took us sometimes minutes to realize what exactly it was that our own children were trying to tell us…

The Familiar Leap

Forty-eight countries have hosted me. Those four dozen have left their mark

MovingBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)5 February 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, countries, moving countries, community, traveling, travel, travels, japan, home, connect, connection, unk, unComment

I Just Want a Matchstick

We were in Costa Rica, two months in, on a year-long adventure of travel, volunteering, and growth…

To a Land of Simpler Life and Spanish

My earliest memories are of traveling back and forth on ‘Mr. Continental’ and ‘Mr. American’ from Honduras to Illinois, to see Grandma and Grandpa at Christmas time and feed the cows…

I Will Carry That Rice Cooker Out Like a Purse

My “real” boyfriend has his family coming from Brazil. He politely tells me to “move out” for the duration of the trip. I pay half the rent…

Moving, Food, RelationshipsBy Cherysh Sullivan (From Hawai'i & Germany. Living in Tokyo)28 December 2019tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, third language, moving, world, Japanese, Japan, city, station, boyfriend, culture, cultural, divorce, new place, boxes, pack, packing, friend, unpack, Perth, Melbourne, Brazil Comments

Hopscotch

It's only when we got older that moving got harder and more difficult. Each time it felt as though you've left a little part of yourself behind. I've moved countries 5 times in my lifetime...

No More Walking on Eggshells

My dad’s anger had been a constant in my world of inconsistencies…

Anger, Moving, FamilyBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)6 March 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, anger, parent, parents, familiy, moving, home, mother, dad, father, sister Comments