Posts tagged Spanish
Hope and Healing in Flores de Villa
Hope and Healing in Flores de Villa

As a child who grew up in a suburban bubble in Minnesota, coming to Flores de Villa was shocking. I was unaware of the poverty that existed, and to see it first-hand changed me forever...

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Woman, Community, RelationshipsBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)tck, Tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, Peru, Peruvian, women, woman, culture, cross cultural, community, mother, mom, Mum, family, poverty, Lima, Spanish, TOP TENComment
I Just Want a Matchstick
I Just Want a Matchstick

We were in Costa Rica, two months in, on a year-long adventure of travel, volunteering, and growth…

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Moving, In Good TasteBy James and Hannah Cheng (From South East Asia, Canada, Australia. Living in Pemba until Aug 4)tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, third culture kid, Spanish, moving, borders, language, languages, life, Costa Rica, adventure, travel, volunteering, cooking, Melbourne, Australian, Australia, Malaysian, Malaysia, Brunei, Canada, Potrero, dinner, home, English, Mandarin, China, school, fluent, TicoComment
To a Land of Simpler Life and Spanish
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…

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Where Are You From?, MovingBy Zachary King (From Costa Rica, Honduras, and Joplin. Living in Joplin)tck, Tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, adaptability, moving, Joplin, Missouri, Spanish, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, memories, flying, family, friends, travel, home, food, school, childhood, holidays, missionaryComment
Being a Danish Inuit
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...

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Where Are You From?, ConflictBy Marianne Roed Abrahamsen (From Denmark, Greenland & Spain. Living in Denmark)TCK TOWN, TCK, tck, third culture kid, Spain, Spanish, Denmark, Greenland, high school, home, Greenlander, move, moving, Greenlandic, culture, social, nationality, differences, history Comment
Words By The Sea
Words By The Sea

On the silted shores of that Kashmiri lake from my childhood - my shoes slowly ruining in the slush of snow, mud and plum blossoms - I stood beside the houseboat we were staying in (which once hosted Henry Kissinger). That was the month Indira Gandhi was voted out and my whole family got stuck in India.

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We're InspiredBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, tck, third culture kid, ocean, beach, sea, love, family, American, USA, Texas, Colorado, Alaska, alone, Micronesia, trust, friendship, friends, summer, Concarneau, Brittany, San Francisco, best friend, college, France, Vienna, Kashmiri, Odawara, Japanese, Japan, Kamakura, solitary, life, upbringing, story, Spanish Comment
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
We're the Heroes of Our Own Stories
We're the Heroes of Our Own Stories

She took the lead and went zip lining first in Costa Rica. Then I had to try it. She was eager to run into the ocean and go past the giant waves that terrified me, yelling at me to come out and join her....

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HeroesBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)TCK TOWN, Tck, TCK training, third culture kid, TCK, tck, atck, ATCK, Family, sister, heroes, hero, Costa Rica, memories, Spanish, brave, bravery, comfort zone Comment
Superhero Mom vs Antiquated Aunt
Superhero Mom vs Antiquated Aunt

Every time we moved and in each new country we lived, my mom openly embraced everything. I don’t know too many people who would have gone to a funeral of a neighbor just a few short months after moving in, but she was one of them...

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WomanBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, mom, superhero, Asia, embrace, American, ginseng tea, Korea, England, neighborhood, relationships, Asia Town, Nampla, internationalism, big city, country, Spain, Spanish, Florida, diversity, antiquatedComment
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