music — Stories

I taught my friends bachata in the middle of Manchester. My worlds were colliding…

I Am Australian

I loved that 'the girls part' of the song meant we got to climb over the lyrics and sing a higher harmony while the boys peeled the words apart down low…

Thank You, Music, SchoolBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)17 October 2020proud, TCK, teasing, school, Australia, sing, music, Tasmania, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, dreamtime, Australian, lyrics Comment

The Spirit of Radio

“Lágrimas e Chuva” by Kid Abelha takes me back to a warm and smokey Brazilian night in the backseat of a 2004 Citroen…

MusicBy Cayetano Garcia Cachay (From Germany, Brazil & the United States of America. Living in Germany)12 August 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, music, adulthood, memories, third culture kid, CCK, Brazil, Michigan, Germany, Spain, friends, experiences, history, language Comments

My Bengali New Year in Washington

Their beloved poet Rabindranath Tagore was quoted, and the paintings of renowned Bangladeshi painter Zain Ul Abideen were reminisced about. My friend and I, being Pakistani, were egged on to…

Webcams and Red Wine

If sharing our personalities, sharing our music and cultures, and celebrating our differences and diversity are the most beautiful and connective forms of interaction, then what difference does it make that we are not physically together when we do this?…

COVID-19By Cayetano Garcia Cachay (From Germany, Brazil & the United States of America. Living in Germany)20 June 2020friendship, millennials, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, Gen Z, diversity, pandemic, music, culture, technology, communicationComment

The Tune of Soviet Tuesdays

He pulled out an old—but new for me—dusty book from his briefcase. Books belonging to the Soviet orchestra library...

Music, The ArtsBy Alexa Shearer (From the US, France, Germany, Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria & Italy. Living in Florida)11 April 2020music, Tck, TCK, TCK TOWN, tck, third culture kid, Soviet, metro, violin, orchestra, cathedral, crowds, station, train Comment

Larry Gatlin and the Longing for Home

The song Piel Canela conjures images of my sister in traditional Costa Rican dress, dancing while it plays…

The ArtsBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)4 April 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, familiy, music, the arts, peace, home, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, dancing, homesickComment

The Real Folk Blues

"愛してたと嘆くには (I was in love once, I sigh) あまりにも時はすぎてしまった (far too much time has passed me by)." There's an uproar in the karaoke box...

Music, AsiaBy Ashleigh Leyshon (From Melbourne, Tokyo & Nagoya. Living in Kharkiv)6 February 2019TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, music, karaoke, Japan, Japanese, Nagoya, Australian, Australia, school, lyrics, sing Comments

Sawwah By The Sea

Your eyes watched me faithfully, fingers carefully following the dips and turns of my imperfect singing, matching the patchwork of words to the rhythm of music.

Thank You, RelationshipsBy Farah Beaini (Living in the land of the Kulin nation)26 January 2019TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, mountain, sea, ocean, holiday, summer, 2013, sun, skin, water, guitar, music, songs, sing, moment, human connection, connection Comment

CDs to MP3s; Turkish Pop to Tinnitus

I find the Turkish language so beautiful, and when it is sung it becomes even more so. It didn’t hurt that I had crushes on most of the popular female Turkish pop singers back in the 1980s either...

News Flash: Jimi H is Black

“Jimi Hendrix is black?!” It was a rhetorical question I suppose.

MusicBy Sarah Stoner (From Uganda, Thailand, Belgium, Morocco & the U.S. Living in Seattle)23 August 2017Tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, third language, culture, music, guitar, Jimi Hendrix, U.S., college, dorm, colour, skin, listen, storyComment

The Faces and Places of Past Perú

We left the taxis that were everywhere, and we left the skyscrapers that gave the most incredible views of the vast city. We left the live music in the park where you could dance with other couples, smiling and laughing, not caring that you were stepping on your partner's feet...

Flashbacks, Flashdance and the Fabulous Fifties

I hear Sappho’s Train de Paris and I remember Garde du Nord, waiting to take the TGV in Holland, Belgium or Brittany. Abidjan's songs reminds me of an Arab market in Vienna’s Mitt Bahnhof area...

MusicBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)31 May 2017TCK TOWN, Tck, third culture kid, song, music, songs, cassettes, discs, Japan, Paris, Vienna, Greek Comment

The Metro By Berlin

I listen to The Metro and I think of how guilty I felt buying Hitler era stamps in a small shop in Vienna’s Mitt Banhoff subway station arcade and how I had to use those auto stamp machines to get to the train...

ANAM

Pakistan has been flagged by the Australian government as a "terrorist country" and yet I consider it home...

Speak EasyBy Anam Javed (From Pakistan. Living in Melbourne)16 November 2016TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, local, multilocal, Pakistan, Pakistani, Malaysian, Malaysia, music, work, Brunei, Melbourne, Australian, Australia, passport, rituals, relationship, relationships, mother, happy, call, Islam, Identity, home, identity, travelled, travel, world, United Nations, hope, bucket listComment