Posts tagged German
Learning To Be a Diplomatic Mum
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…

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Family, Adulthood, Moving, Woman, Where Are You From?By Alexandra Paucescu (from Romania. Living in Berlin)TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, Third Culture Adult, culture shock, culture, familiy, children, child, moving, perspectives, moving countries, German, Germany, Vienna, diplomatic, diplomat, expat, kids, languagesComment
The Labeling of Self
The Labeling of Self

“We African-Americans understand. It is a Black experience” with a gesture that included Patrice. Patrice cut her off immediately. She held up her hand and said, “No one likes a blanket being thrown over them”…

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RacismBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, tck, Tck, election, American, labels, African-American, Middle-Eastern, Turkey, Iraq, Egyptian, German, Italian, Bulgarian, black, Jamaican, Irish, Hispanic, LatinoComment
Occupational Hazard
Occupational Hazard

The rest of preflight runs pretty smoothly. Our passengers are happy and in good moods. They want to get the plane up and to their tropical destination as soon as possible...

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CareersBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, tck, Tck, TCK, third culture kid, culture, diversity, flight, flight attendant, travel, Russia, Russians, Tokyo, Cyrillic, Japan, airline, Manila, Guam, Asia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, German, Alaska Comment
The Metro By Berlin
The Metro By Berlin

I listen to The Metro and I think of how guilty I felt buying Hitler era stamps in a small shop in Vienna’s Mitt Banhoff subway station arcade and how I had to use those auto stamp machines to get to the train... 

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MusicBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)Tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, Berlin, West Berlin, East Berlin, German, Germany, Hungary, Soviet, subway, Munich, Vienna, Tokyo, Roppongi, disco, music, song, songs Comments
PAUL
PAUL

My passports have always been issued from abroad. In the 1980s my passports were changed to blue "Z" instead of the standard blue. I was treated like a second class citizen each time I “returned” to the US and travelling in my 20's through Europe with it in the Cold War was sheer hell on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain...  

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Speak EasyBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, Paul Kennedy, Paul, local, multilocal, born, Atlantic, Spain, Guam, Alaska, Korea, European, South-East Asia, Asian, home, Washington, California, Texas, Germany, Austria, Europe, Americans, eat, spice, culinary, Spanish, English, Mexico, German, US, citizen, passport, Tokyo Comment