About: Brice
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- Hi, I'm Brice. I'm the admin and geek behind tckid, yes... that's the website you're browsing right now. :) Here's a little bit about my background... I'm a Eurasiafrican TCK, I'm half French/Vietnamese and Ethiopian. Born: France. Countries lived: France, Mayotte, Reunion, Canada, England. Countries visited: Too many! Languages: French/English some Japanese and Korean. Current residence: Vancouver Canada :)
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Do you love your alien neighbors?
Although this quote would appeal to Christians, I think it’s generally sound advice for everyone: Love your aliens!
Loving the alien is a clear calling for the follower of Christ. In Paul’s list of “Marks of the True Christian” in Romans chapter 12, we are told in verse 12 to “extend hospitality to strangers.” What we translate as hospitality here is Paul’s use of a Greek word philoxenia, which is literally the love of aliens. In English we have the word xenophobia–the fear of aliens–but we don’t have the word xenophilia, which might mean the love of aliens. Hospitality is more than tea and crackers. Paul’s list of Marks of the True Christian opens with the easily recognized philadelphia in verse 10. Paul says practice brotherly love–philadelphia–which all the more sets up the listener for the closing of that list where philoxenia–alien love–in verse 12 leaps off the page. It screams out at me: Love the ALIEN! THIS is Christian hospitality. THIS is what a Good Neighbor does. LOVE THE ALIEN.
Can TCKs successfully co-exist with Non-TCKs? And can TCKs “click” with other TCKs if they’re background is so different?
We received this email from someone who would like your opinion:
Do you think TCK’s can ever relate to, and even co-exist, with someone who isn’t? There are many TCK’s out there (especially here in Geneva), but that doesn’t mean they ‘click’, if they’re backgrounds are still so different.
TCKID Postcard from Shanghai!
Woo! I received Cynthia’s postcard(s) today! (Two of them!) Thank you, Panda! 
I took a picture of the cards for your panda viewing pleasure.
If you want to receive a postcard, you can join the postcard project here.
Happy birthday Ruth Van Reken!!
Our friend and advisor, Ruth Van Reken, is 63 years old today!!! YAY! Happy birthday Ruth! Thank you so much for all the work you’ve done all these years for TCKs and CCKs everywhere.
Ruth is the co-author of Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Amoung Worlds and author of Letters Never Sent, a chapter in Strangers at Home. You can read more about Ruth Van Reken here
TCK Counseling Network (Looking for a mentor, counselor, or life coach?)
TCK Counseling: A Counselor and Therapist Network for Third Culture Kids and Adult TCKs.
Are you interested in networking with other counselors, therapists, psychologist and life coaches in your field?
Are you looking for a counselor in your area who understands TCKs?
We are aiming to connect individuals who need help, with counselors and volunteers who can provide assistance. If you would like to use your expertise to volunteer to make a different in the lives of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs), or to network with other experts in your field, then you will find this project initiative useful.
The data will not just limited for use for the professionals who help create it, but will be available to any group, university and organizations dedicated to help TCKs.
Join us today. Enter your name and email address to be added on our mailing list and notified with further announcements of the project.
You can get more details here:
A Map of Third Culture Kids
Wow this is cool.
We are almost everywhere!
http://feedjit.com/stats/tckid.com/map/
A small layout change. Do you want to keep or change it?
I changed the layout a bit today, the latest commented posts now appear on top instead of the recent posts.
Do you want to keep it or do you prefer the previous layout?
Describe your city in 3 words
Vancouver, Canada.
Starbucks. Starbucks. Starbucks.
TCK Academy’s New Teleconference with Margie Ulsh of Among Worlds Magazine
This week, TCK Academy is honored to bring Margie Ulsh, editor of Among Worlds Magazine: Encouraging and Empowering Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs) for our Expert Series Interviews.
Not only is Margie humorous and fun-loving, she will leave you with a footprint of thoughtful and soul provoking ideas.
Here’s the official announcement from the site:
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Have you lived outside your Passport culture and then struggled
trying to fit in with people that you have nothing in common with
when you returned “home”?
Are you a parent, family member, counselor, international school
teacher or administrator, relocation specialist or anyone
interested in learning more about meeting the needs of the
expatriate family and feel like you want to learn more
about Third Culture Kids?
Join TCK Academy for an engaging conversation “Helpful Tips for
Living A Masterful TCK Life: An Engaging Conversation With Margie
Ulsh Editor of Among Worlds Magazine”.
In Margie Ulsh’s 60-mins interview, you will learn about:
* Discover how Margie Ulsh handles restlessness and “itchy feet”.
* Learn techniques to pass on your TCK legacy and instill a global
perspective in your non-TCK children.
* How to come to terms with grief and loss in the TCK experience.
* Lessons Learned About this Global Life as an ATCK (Adult Third
Culture Kid) and the editor of Among Worlds Magazine.
For those of you who missed TCK Academy’s interview last week with
Donna Musil, you are just a click away from tuning into her
insights and knowledge regarding growing up amongst worlds.
What attendees have said:
- “I have tears just falling from my eyes. I hear tears from others
too. It is powerful to hear so many others validate my experiences.”
- “These past few weeks of the TCK Academy have been more help in
tying so many threads of my life together than years of on & off
therapy with a number of therapists.”
- “It makes me feel like a bird happily flapping around in a bird
bath. I felt so ‘at home’ with you all yesterday.”
- “What a breath of fresh air to have at last some practical
observations and advice on TCK issues.”
- “I would STRONGLY recommend the teleclass to anyone thinking of
joining in.”
You can get all the details about this teleconference at this
web page:
http://tckacademy.com/clas
IMPORTANT: Please check out this page right away.
This is a time limited AND space limited event to 200 people.
What if you can’t attend? Sign up to get the MP3 recording.
P.S: We are trying to spread the word so please forward this email
to anyone who might be interested in the event.
Here is the link again to the event:
http://tckacademy.com/clas
The first TCKID Postcard ever!! (picture)
I got the first TCKID Postcard today from our fun little experiment…. (if you don’t know what this is all about, please check this thread.)
Here it is… you may want to cover your eyes.
Thanks for that beautiful view of Venice Beach, Michelle.
I actually laughed when I saw this, but what she wrote is even more hilarious. I can’t wait to visit… it sounds very welcoming.
So this card has traveled from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada.
And now I’ll send it to one lucky person… where will this card travel next???
How can you belong?… and if you never had a sense of belonging, can you ever get it?
How can you belong?… and if you never had a sense of belonging, can you ever get it? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
An interview with expert Donna Musil, filmmaker of Brats: Our Journey Home.
TCKID Postcards - Send a postcard and receive one back from another TCK
OK, I’m not sure how this crazy idea started…. I think someone mentioned sending a postcard to another third culture kid just for fun and see how many countries that postcard would travel to. (was it me?.. I don’t remember lol)
Anyway, if you want to join in and would like to send or receive a postcard, just subscribe here and email your home address.
1. Subscribe below using your name and email.
2. Email your address and request to receive an address.
3. Receive an address.
4. Mail the postcard to the address.
5. Wait to receive a postcard.
6. Write down your country on that postcard, request another address, and send the received postcard to someone else!
7. Optional: make a comment on this thread when you send or receive a postcard.
EDIT BY CYNTHIA 7/16/08: Ok guys, here is how we’re going to do it. 2 things will happen, one thing is definitely going to happen and the other is optional.
1) TCKid.com Official Postcard Relay/Experiment (or along those lines): One person will send out this postcard with the title written at the back. The person will sign his/her name on it and location, put this in an envelope along with instructions and mail it to the next person on the mailing list. The next person that receives it will sign his/her number after the first person, put it in an envelope and mail it to the next person on the list. Rinse and repeat. An address will be given to you once you sign up. By the way, you don’t get to keep this postcard.
2) Sending out postcards for fun:This is for those that want to receive postcards from various parts of the world and wouldn’t mind providing their mailing address to other people. This is optional. Some people aren’t comfortable with giving their mailing address away. And you get to keep the postcards! So when you get a response from the mailing list, please also specify whether you’d like to make your address public when you send in your address. If you say yes then we will send you a list of addresses that you can send postcards to (we will determine how many addresses).
Once you have received the official TCKid.com postcard, please post here to let us know you have received it so we can keep track, in case the postcard gets lost somewhere (we hope it does not get lost and then show up 30 years later on someone else’s doorstep!). This is an experiment we want to try and hopefully it travels far and wide!! :)
Last but not least, if you do change address before the end of this year, please let us know!
Sign up here:
Spreading the word and educating others about TCKs?
There’s still a lot of ignorance out there about what is a Third Culture Kid and many people, including TCKs, are still unaware of the resources and support available for them.
Would you like to help spread the word and educate others about the experience of being a TCK and let them know there is support for them?
If you’d like to help, please reply on this thread, or share your ideas on how you can spread the word!
omg, I’M IN THE NEWS ?!
OMG IM GETTING TONS OF EMAILS AND MSGS FROM MYSPACE WHO ARE TRYING TO GET ME IN THE NEWS?!?? WWWTTTTTHHH
Happy birthday Miyon!
Miyon joined us as an officer recently and has already been very helpful — she helped translate the TCK definition in two languages, made videos, gave emotional support to newcomers to make them feel welcomed, and helped a lot behind the scene to hopefully turn this into a real non-profit organization with a structure. She’s awesome.
So let’s all wish her a happy birthday!
In French: Joyeux Anniversaire!
Do you like the new TCKID look?
Hey guys, I changed the layout and presentation of the main page. I removed the long welcome post, there are now more threads displayed, and it’s a bit more clean. What do you guys think? Do you prefer the new look or old one?
Loading …How do you answer the question “Where are you from?” from a Non-TCK?
I’ve been doing some thinking about a problem many TCKs have and would like your input.
How do you answer the question “Where are you from?” asked by a non-TCK or monocultural person, when you’ve just arrived in a new country or have only lived there for a year? What is their responses and what do you talk about?
In your experience, do they find your background interesting and say: “Oh wow, you’ve traveled a lot. That’s interesting.” but have difficulty relating to your lifestyle? Do you find it difficult to relate to them?
I’d love to see some actual conversations, their responses, and what do you talk about.
Here’s an example: (MN = monocultural)
MN: Where are you from?
TCK: I’m from Japan, but I grew up overseas.
MN: Oh, that’s interesting. I’d love to go there one day.
Where does the conversation go from there?
China earthquake. 55k+ dead. Please help.
On 12 May 2008 a major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
The confirmed death toll rose to 55,740 and an additional 24,960 remained missing 12 days after the quake, said the State Council. Local branches of the Red Cross Society of China are providing emergency relief assistance.
For a little perspective in death tolls, both are about 10 times worse than either 9/11 or Katrina.
For relief aid in China, ways to you can donate and help:
1. Mercycorps: http://www.mercycorps.org/chinaearthquake/
2. America Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/news/in/profiles/Intl_profile_ChinaEarthquake.html
3. International Federation of Red Cross: http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/response/sichuan-earthquake/index.asp
4. Canada red cross: please make sure donate to China-earthquake. https://www.paypaq.com/redcross/new/index.php
5. Americares: http://www.americares.org/
6. Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/E55A96AA0EFEA3EF8525744A006AF141
Please donate to the above charities. All donations made to TCKID from May 23 to June 23rd will be sent to the above charities for the China earthquake relief.
Thank a member! What comment have you found helpful?
What comment made in this forum has been particularly helpful for you? If you’ve been helped, inspired, moved or learned something new by a comment someone wrote here, I thought you could use this opportunity to thank them.
TCKs no longer have problems because of Facebook and emails?
I had an interesting discussion with Ruth today.
Recently she has again heard from several places “Oh, this [TCK issues] are from your generation. Nowadays, kids have Facebook and email and these aren’t really their issues any more…”
What is your opinion on this?
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