belonging — Stories

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

How to Meet TCKs in Your New Home

It is so helpful to get out there with an open mind and some level of trust in the people you are going to meet…

GuidesBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)13 June 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, birthday edition, COVID-19, isolation, belonging, confidence, relationships, atck, travel, friendship, friendsComment

Self-love Wisdom for the COVID-19 Season

Grief is good because it creates the space for TCKs to acknowledge those losses and to process them…

COVID-19By Megan Norton (From the United States, South Africa, South Korea, Germany, Japan, Israel, Austria, Greece, Hungary, and Poland. Living in Michigan)10 June 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, birthday edition, COVID-19, masks, isolation, wfh, distance, social distancing, belonging, confidence, relationships, grief, atck, travelComment

Leaving Home While Standing Still

I don’t know how to stay and invest in a city long-term. I’m panicking because there is no reason to go, there is no goodbye coming and because this is foreign…

Finding Belonging When Your Freedom Is Sacred

We have our own 'wildness,' our own ways, and our own abilities to take the good from a culture, and leave out whatever does not resonate…

My Analogue Life

This ocean is not mine, I was born in another. I moved, learned, lived, cried and loved somewhere else…

AdulthoodBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)5 June 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, Third Culture Adult, young, Islander, island, summer, spring, Ocean, moving, moving countries, belong, belongingComment

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, community Comment

Owning My Culture Crown

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL:

I put my gown on and placed my tiara on my curly updo. Finally, I awarded myself the “Miss America” sash that I had marked with a sharpie to say “Miss ATCK,” instead…

It's a Japanese Thing

I’m quite certain that was the moment I realised that it wasn’t just the language I had absorbed…

Where Do I Begin?

I became the ‘Pakistani Australian’ or the ‘Australian Pakistani’ depending on whether I was meeting Sam or Sameet…

Home

My sense of belonging fluctuates like an erratic pulse and my nationalistic pride skyrockets when faced with a belligerent non-Pakistani who questions the mess my country has become...