Bali — Stories — TCK TOWN

A Grim Balinese Summer

Isn’t that always the case? You plan for life to go a certain way, only for it to forge its own path…

Birthdays, GoodbyeBy Stephany Daal (From Suriname, Curaçao, Venezuela & Amsterdam. Living in Brussels)22 January 2020tck, TCK TOWN, Tck, third culture kid, Bali, summer, Jakarta, suicide, birthday, beach, Vietnam, Indonesia, familiy Comment

The Hale Boys Reunite In Bali

After a heavy meal we would scour the roads for a terang bulan stall. Terang bulan is a big, round Indonesian pancake, made of sugar and coconut milk and cooked in a pan smeared in palm margarine…

FunBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)3 July 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, Third Culture Adult, Bali, friendship, friends, men, high school, travelComment

The Hale Boys

Your purpose in life isn’t just found in big cities, away from supposed intellectual backwaters. It’s found wherever you feel the most alive and the most genuine and such a place isn't often tacked to a specific postcode.

I Could be From Bali

My grandmother spoke in Javanese a lot, especially to my grandfather. This was usually when she was talking about me or my sister, assuming that my attendance at an English and Indonesian speaking school meant I would not understand her...