oh dhany

“I understand you’ve had a rip-roaring time in Canuck Land, but I also understand that this time is coming to an unwanted end, so I hope you won’t have too difficult a time saying all the goodbyes that you really don’t want to distribute (who are we kidding, it’s going to be hell). I hope your hugs at the airport are warm and material and inconsiderate of the minutes you have until boarding. I hope you will make good on the promises made to your people up there, especially the promise that someday you will return to this country—to this particular slab of earth, this family promoted from this rank of friends, this crack on the sidewalk you trip over all the time—that you’ve come to call home.

"A third culture kid is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside their parents’ culture. The third culture kid builds relationships to all the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the third culture kid’s life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of the same background, other TCKs."

What is a TCK?

Forgive me for quoting correspondence, but when you find someone like Antiguit who suggests “hanging out in Jakarta roadside food stalls next January and writing bitter songs on the ukulele about the moral disconnect prevalent in Indonesian government” — well. You can see why I’m already planning my next trip out of Australia even while I’m still in the ‘couv. SO STOKED.