Posts tagged Minnesota
Letting Go of Everything but My Memories
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…

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

I never thought that this change I loved so much would betray me. When my dad started talking, tears ran down my face as I soaked in his words and tried to make sense of what he was saying. We were leaving Peru in three days. No one in Peru knew we were leaving...

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ResilienceBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)TCK, TCK TOWN, Tck, Peru, Minnesota, Tennessee, suitcase, change, goodbye, moving, culture shock, home Comments
Finding Common Ground in Minnesota
Finding Common Ground in Minnesota

We were both required to take a placement test. I didn’t place very high, but brought my results to my advisor and got signed up no problem. Samiya, on the other hand, took it and scored very high. When she brought her results to her advisor, he said, “No way is this your score. No way a person like you can score this high”…

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RacismBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee) and Samiya Haid (From Somalia, Saudi Arabia, & Syria. Living in Minnesota)TCK TOWN, TCK, tck, Minnesota, Somali, Spanish, intelligence, appearance, person-like-you, trilingual, US, prejudice, confront, Ramadan, Syria, adapt, socialise, socialize, global nomad, Somalia, Saudi ArabiaComment