Settling in takes time. Sometimes you need to take conscious steps before you really put down your roots. Ava, our Editor-In-Chief, shares few of her tricks to help you pre-settle after your next move.
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I was very inspired by the Gitano nomad lifestyle. I asked my father if it was possible to live like that today. Of course, he didn't want his daughter to wander off and live like a gypsy...
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Born during the air raids in London, as a child with Irish ancestry, I always felt as though I was living between two seas. Whilst London was my home, there was a sense of disconnect…
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After realizing his cultural identity as a TCK, Peter faced a new inner conflict as he traveled between America and Korea: Should he stay true to his TCK identity or “take sides” with a single cultural identity?
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I don’t know how to stay and invest in a city long-term. I’m panicking because there is no reason to go, there is no goodbye coming and because this is foreign…
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A stamp printed on blue paper in a stingray shape (blame the flaps). Just enough space without lines, to let others know you are still alive…
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I'm attracted to other international souls. As a TCK, I am fascinated by different cultures and I seek to be a part of them in exchange for mine, no matter how muddled it might become...
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As an architect and an interior designer, I have a belief that space has an inherent cadence, much like an individual with their own story waiting to be discovered…
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I adapted to the new environment, but life never became easier. As I walked down the street, students from my school would yell, calling me Chinese…
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Hearts intertwined, cultures blended, held apart and concealed. Muted thoughts are voiced in random tongues.
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It makes me proud to see the silhouettes they've painted on the gym wall…
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When he and I are close, it feels like our two flames enliven us. But fire is also a destructive force. From destruction comes creation, I think to myself…
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He kissed me goodnight. I went home and woke up the next morning thinking, ‘How could I have been such an idiot!?’ I really liked him but I guessed I just liked to self sabotage…
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But that was just it. I had to fit in wherever I went. Nobody else had to mould their ways to engage with my understanding of identity and belonging…
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We were living in Australia with our young daughter when my husband told me he was looking at a job opportunity in Bahrain. I was really excited…
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My birth city launched Columbus’ wooden fleet. A trip aboard a cruise ship—my life at sea…
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We have our own 'wildness,' our own ways, and our own abilities to take the good from a culture, and leave out whatever does not resonate…
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I have a Chinese-Malaysian mother and a Ugandan father, I’m two parts of two continents, but since most people can’t guess that. I’m a black woman to them...
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We pass through countries, like revolving doors, denizen aliens of the world…
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I thought I was just like her and she just like me in so many ways. One day, she poked my freckles, giggling and asking me what they were…
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