Stories — TCK TOWN

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…

My Psychological Tattoo

You were always worthy, Until you made me unworthy, Emotional handcuffs clatter to the floor, Freedom…

ChangeBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)29 July 2020relationships, third culture adult, third culture kid, tradition, culture, self worth, self love, love, loss, separationComment

Caught That Yellow Fever. Not!

“They’re not even like real men, Ava! They’re all hairless under their shirts. Come on! It’s gross!” I remember zipping my lips shut right after my mate yipped that particularly distasteful ‘observation’ at me,..

Racism, RelationshipsBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)25 July 2020TCK TOWN, third culture kid, TCK, racism, bi-racial, Tokyo, Japan, Asia, Asian, relationships, love, attraction, travel Comments

The Consistency of Change

Do you ever feel like you have an alter ego for each city you go back to? I know Nashville changed me, I learned lessons here I’ve never learned anywhere else and I hope that those stay with me when I move…

ChangeBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)22 July 2020friendship, millennials, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, Gen Z, diversity, culture, communication, moving, Nashville, USA, relationships, city, cities, homeComment

Adulthood Across Three Continents

In places like East Pakistan (before it became Bangladesh), Kuwait, and Sierra Leone there just weren’t that many expat families…

Weaving Stories of Washing Rice

Images appear and race into the mist, to places I’ve been, the food I’ve made and the people I’ve shared meals with…

FoodBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)15 July 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Between Planes

We were crossing time zones long before I learned to cross my T’s…

Where Are You From?By Anita Krishnan (From Singapore, Australia & the United States. Currently quarantined in India, due to COVID-19)11 July 2020where are you from, TCK, TCK TOWN, third, third culture kid, family, identity, cultu, culture, moving, timeComment

Christmas, Costa Rica and Change

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

Emotional Djinn

My surgical mask is my veil. Modesty or mortality?

COVID-19By Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)5 July 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, COVID-19, masks, isolation, wfh, distance, social distancingComment

Learning To Be a Diplomatic Mum

Imagine the chaos of the first few years: Romanian, German and English mixed together in a way that it took us sometimes minutes to realize what exactly it was that our own children were trying to tell us…

Tin Can Martial Law

When we were politely locked into our hotel in Delhi nine months later due to the street uprisings, the desk manager profusely apologized to us…

A House of Lives

The world outside, though foreign, is also mine…

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?…