My first relationship started in Costa Rica. Running around the city, beach trips, endless sunny days. It was perfect…
Read MoreOne of the neighbours we connected with was a family from the Netherlands. Their lives mirrored our own as they too had recently relocated with a toddler in tow, exactly the same age as ours...
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Chimamanda’s contributions are shaped greatly by her TCK experience, where she champions plurality…
Read MoreShe starred in ‘Shuga’, an MTV/UNICEF-backed series looking at sexual relationships among youth in Nairobi, promoting HIV awareness…
Read MoreWe need to be developing global citizens who can engage with ideas and issues, make decisions and enact positive change…
Read MoreMy teachers weren’t interested that my life had been uprooted to return to a culture that I had little understanding of…
Read MoreThis was the daily context in which I grew up: Vietnamese with a splash of Soviet culture at home, coupled with a very French environment at school…
Read MoreThe warm and humid tropical air hugs me and in the blink of an eye, it opens a box of memories from another life…
Read MoreA promise of fading light and cooling mercury…
Read MoreWhen the vaccine comes and lockdowns end, the world will be different. At least, that’s what everyone says…
Read MoreMy form teacher peered over his spectacles at me like I was an exotic bird and gestured for me to take a seat…
Read MoreI have traveled to over 118 countries over the last four years because I could work online and earned a steady income even if I was spending one week in Lebanon and another week in Oman…
Read MoreOur version of a corsage was a motia flower and though street vendors would sell these readily, they were not durable enough to hang around the hands of people as they danced…
Read MoreAs third culture kids, moving around frequently has accustomed us to loss…
Read MoreImages appear and race into the mist, to places I’ve been, the food I’ve made and the people I’ve shared meals with…
Read MoreWe met, a unit. Things progressed. New challenges, fewer meetings, simple distractions…
Read MoreThe flights were long, the jet lag even longer, but the airplane itself was home…
Read MoreWe will get through this with grace and kindness towards one another. We have to.
Read MoreBut where is home for me? It cannot be just a single place.
Read MoreA curfew has been enforced here. You can’t leave the house at all. We’ve been rationing the food we have…
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