Posts tagged Alabama
I Broke Up With Alabama
I Broke Up With Alabama

"Hi. Where are you going?," a man asked me as he sat across from me at the bus station in Alabama.

We just got off the same bus from Atlanta to some city in Alabama, Birmingham, maybe? I don't know the geography of Alabama at all. I still can't look at maps of Alabama without crying...

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Where Are You From?By Coco Spencer (From America, China & Russia. Living between Moscow, Detroit & Oakland)TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, journal, Alabama, bus, question, where are you from, california, american, race, English, parents, grandparents, heritage, Filipino, Japanese, AsianComment
The Grass is Green Wherever I Am
The Grass is Green Wherever I Am

I was surrounded by music and swing-dancing and prayer and a community of 400 people that attended the wedding. In my Dusty Rose dress in line with the other girls I felt like I was playing dress-up, assuming my part in an American wedding movie...

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FriendshipsBy Alexa Shearer (From the US, France, Germany, Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria & Italy. Living in Florida)tck, TCK TOWN, third language, third culture kid, Alabama, Siberia, wedding, dancing, community, church, Russia, US, USA, Moscow, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Trans-Siberian RailwayComment