Stories — TCK TOWN

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

Pop and Circumstance

Each person is more interesting than any one aspect of their identity too, and everyone owes it to themselves to experiment and discover themselves, instead of just assuming the identity placed upon them by their societies…

Where Are You From?By Daniel Nguyen-Phuoc (From the United States of America, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Kingdom & Switzerland. Living in Poland)27 February 2021TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, Texas, united kingdom, Vietnam, Indonesia, identity, friendship, switzerland, growth, change, journey Comment

The Pink Lion from Tanzania

I wanted to claim Tanzania as my home, but how could I? I was not accepted by others as a part of their country…

Returning To My Foreign Birthplace

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

'Weird Culture Kids'

This was the daily context in which I grew up: Vietnamese with a splash of Soviet culture at home, coupled with a very French environment at school…

Where Are You From?By Ngoc Nguyen (From Vietnam, France & the USA. Living in Paris)9 December 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Dear America, We're Breaking Up

I don’t have a filter when it comes to talking about wanting to leave America…

Where Are You From?By Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)5 December 2020TCK TOWN, Tck, TCK, America, Peru, transfer student, international school, exchange students, Florida, Minnesota, Costa Rica, belonging, Central America, South America Comments

I Am From

I am from the south and I am from the north, my “R” is rolling on the tip of my tongue and stuck in the back of my throat, my taste buds feast on Fårikål as well as Llajwa…

Where Are You From?By Eli G. Goa (From Bolivia & Norway. Living in China)12 September 2020bolivia, norway, food, valley, mountain, market, coast, wind, nature, sea, third culture adult, third culture kid, storm, language, roots, rhythm Comments

Between Planes

We were crossing time zones long before I learned to cross my T’s…

Where Are You From?By Anita Krishnan (From Singapore, Australia & the United States. Currently quarantined in India, due to COVID-19)11 July 2020where are you from, TCK, TCK TOWN, third, third culture kid, family, identity, cultu, culture, moving, timeComment

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…

A House of Lives

The world outside, though foreign, is also mine…

Return to Rural Life

People of such areas are deprived of basic facilities. They have no easy access to big cities, roads are damaged, and elected assembly members visit every five years, never to return within their tenure. But still, they live happy lives...

Why I Date Guys Who Smoke

They think it’s because of their badass demeanor, their cocky swagger, their muscle cars, and their tough reputations...

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…

Being a Danish Inuit

I was very inspired by the Gitano nomad lifestyle. I asked my father if it was possible to live like that today. Of course, he didn't want his daughter to wander off and live like a gypsy...

When Faith Rings True: Bahrain Story #37

Born during the air raids in London, as a child with Irish ancestry, I always felt as though I was living between two seas. Whilst London was my home, there was a sense of disconnect…

Where Are You From?By Tanzeel Jabbar-Khadir (From Australia, Pakistan & India. Living in Bahrain)9 October 2019TCK TOWN, TCK, TckComment

Bridging My Two Worlds

I adapted to the new environment, but life never became easier. As I walked down the street, students from my school would yell, calling me Chinese…

When Nowhere Is Foreign

We pass through countries, like revolving doors, denizen aliens of the world…

This TCKness

This emptiness, rootlessnes, in-betweenness, nobodiness, neither here, nor there-ness…

Where Are You From?By Arisa Aylin (From Istanbul, New Delhi & Tokyo. Living in Tokyo)22 May 2019TCK TOWN, TCK, tck, identity, emptiness, rootlessness, multicultural, hybrid, self-worth, belongingComment

Rediscovering Myself as a TCK

Am I Korean or American? Am I more Korean or more American? Which side do I belong to? Who am I?—I kept asking until last night, the night of the TCK student organization meeting and the night that changed my perception of my own personal and cultural identity forever…

Where Are You From?By Peter Inho Nahm (From Iowa, Daegu, Indiana & Nebraska. Living in Texas).17 April 2019TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, Korea, USA, Daegu, Indiana, meeting, awakening, Iowa, Texas, belonging, identity, communityComment

Nonna’s Lunch

Living half your life in the West and the other half in the East would render one ripe for an identity crisis...