change — Stories

I didn’t want to accept the change, I didn’t want to let go of family stability, I didn’t know how to build a home somewhere all on my own…

EducationBy Naomi Ettrick (From Azerbaijan & England. Living in Ukraine)8 May 2021university, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, change, student, growing up, adulthood, transience, temporary, identity, family, friends, unfinished, wanderer Comment

Pop and Circumstance

Each person is more interesting than any one aspect of their identity too, and everyone owes it to themselves to experiment and discover themselves, instead of just assuming the identity placed upon them by their societies…

Where Are You From?By Daniel Nguyen-Phuoc (From the United States of America, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Kingdom & Switzerland. Living in Poland)27 February 2021TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, Texas, united kingdom, Vietnam, Indonesia, identity, friendship, switzerland, growth, change, journey Comment

If Change Were a Person…

We were given one week’s notice to pack our bags and leave the country…

Christmas, Costa Rica and Change

he busy streets normally filled with cars were replaced with loud, colorful parades…

The Clouds

Everywhere and nowhere, home is no place...

Past the Point of Resilience

I never thought that this change I loved so much would betray me. When my dad started talking, tears ran down my face as I soaked in his words and tried to make sense of what he was saying. We were leaving Peru in three days. No one in Peru knew we were leaving...

ResilienceBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)27 April 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, Tck, Peru, Minnesota, Tennessee, suitcase, change, goodbye, moving, culture shock, home Comments

Wogs and Dings—Enemies of the State

The peace and tranquility were the main draw cards of Coolbinia Primary School, but it was also one of its major pitfalls. They bred comfort—the type which people get possessive about…