I'm a diplomat's kid, so whenever my parents moved city/country/house I've moved with them, until now. My parents are leaving Europe on Sunday and going back to our home country. They're hoping to be assigned a new posting overseas sometime soon, but either way, they're going to be staying in a home that I'm not familiar with. (We have a house in ( Read more... )

In describing some issues with people who identify with 'third culture':

"Van Reken says the third culture is the interstitial culture, the shared commonalities of those living international lifestyles. The 'third culture' is interwoven with the home culture or 'first culture', which is interwoven with the experience in the host or 'second' ( Read more... )

so im a NZer currently living in ireland and im about to move to scotland, therefore ill be twice an expat i think! ive been living in ireland for 2 years but i need a change of scene ( Read more... )

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I often get perplexed, confused looks. Often get comments such as, "wow...I thought Indians didn't do that." People look wherever I go. And no I am not all that pretty. I am dark, am curly head - all the aspects that aren't considered beautiful in this country. That's not the point. This is not the first time I have gotten such comments. Even when ( Read more... )

Hey all. I was wondering whether anyone here is a Third Culture Kid, but like a REAL TCK. I'm Danish/Filipino and I've moved around for a lot of my life. From ages 1-8 I lived in the West (USA, Canada, England, Denmark) and for the past 8 years have been living in Indonesia and going to an international school ( Read more... )

We have two sets of guests coming in the next two weeks: my best friend (Inga) and her family, and Cedric's best friend (Jerome)and his family ( Read more... )

Hello fellow expats.

I've been living away from my home country (Indonesia) for as long as I can remember. When I was four I moved to Halifax, NS, Canada, for four years. My mum was doing her Masters at Dalhousie. Then I moved back to Jakarta for about eighteen months, and then to the Philippines where I am currently living and have lived for the ( Read more... )