One week to go

In exactly one week and 8 hours I will be starting the first day of work at my new job. I’m getting a little nervous about it already, because I’m not really sure what to expect. I get the impression there will be quite a lot of translating from French to English, which [...]

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The UN

This isn’t very TCK-related, but it’s essentially an international topic and it cracks me up. I found an article entitled “Why the United States just doesn’t get the United Nations”. The article’s kind of interesting, but what caught my attention was the second comment, at the bottom:

All very flowery, but why would we [...]

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TCKs in the news!

I was just idly listening to a local radio station in Switzerland today (local, but for English speakers in the region i.e. it’s a station for international people, called World Radio Switzerland, based in Geneva) and by coincidence they interviewed a psychologist named Rachel Melville Thomas about moving, how to prepare your kids for it, [...]

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Lifestyle habits

Thanks to Brice on TCKID for this! Below are 10 lifestyle habits that are very typical of your average TCK. All of them apply to me – with possibly the exception of 7, but my parents read a lot and I just grew up reading [...]

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Blasé attitude?

Last night I got into a discussion with a couple of family members about our attitude to cultural differences. Obviously being a family of ATCKs/highly mobile parents, we have no problem with cultural differences – in fact that’s one of the main reasons for moving around overseas. But what we were discussing was [...]

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Christmas among cultures

The holiday season is beginning to draw to a close, and I hope you’ve all passed a good Christmas with family/friends/whoever you spent the period with! I’ve been with family and I’ll be heading off to France (or at least a different part of it since I’m already in France) sometime around the middle [...]

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