friend — Stories

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...

When planning a party, my go-to is to mix things up. I’ve found that including a flavorful assortment of people has always guaranteed my most memorable events...

Let's Party, Community, FunBy Nakate Kakembo (From Malaysia, China & Uganda. Living in Melbourne)20 January 2021TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, Let's Party, party, black, friends, friend, event, New Year's Eve, food, culturalComment

Loving & Hating Nashville

I took everything I could from Nashville and in return, Nashville took everything out of me. I haven’t figured out how to make this city my home and I don’t know how to stay…

Your Goodbye—My Hello

We met, a unit. Things progressed. New challenges, fewer meetings, simple distractions…

Goodbye, RelationshipsBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)2 June 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identity, goodbye, goodbyes, friend, friendship, leaving, travelComment

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

The Known Unknown

While waiting for information about her funeral, I found out it was already taking place and I would miss it…

Warming Hearts, Warring Worlds

You wonder whether you have traded one death sentence for the next as the engine fails and the old boat moans under the angry tumbling of ocean...

No Formalities

Sara promptly opened the fridge, retrieved sustenance in the form of canned tuna and continued. After the session was over and everyone had left, I returned to my fridge and to my horror (distaste, displeasure, disdain, etc.) saw $1.10 lying on the counter…

FriendshipsBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)21 July 2018TCK TOWN, tck, third culture kid, Friendship, friend, relationships, university, Australian, Australia, Melbourne, degree, education, friendship, friends, studyComment

The TCK Disconnect

We are in constant contact with everyone, so we forego personal contact with loved ones…

FriendshipsBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)20 June 2018TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, friendship, friend, relationships, relationship, college Comment

The Friend In The Mirror

People will say one nation or region is more friendly than another. I honestly can say I think that people are pretty much the same all over the world. So if you are an asshole in Baltimore, moving to another country won’t magically transform you into everyone’s hero...

My Also Family

My family and my blood are in Alaska. My heart will hold up north and I fool no one. But my also “family” exists as much to me down in Texas and California, Washington and Tokyo...

AVA

My floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlooking the city street doesn't stop me boogie-ing alone in my underpants at home. Melbourne's ideals about acceptance, love and normalisation of a woman's body have helped me shrug off nakedness as no big deal...

My Unicorn and I

I can choose how Japanese I am: I never leave my chopsticks standing up in a bowl of rice because that is a funeral practice here and I avoid the number 4 like the plague in food service...