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I’m here, finally, forever

ElizabethD

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First things first, the word “blog” is about as appealing as a mouldy sandwich…or a fig for that matter. It sounds like something that would come up in a conversation about terrible things somewhere among sick babies, plague, and pestilance but that is neither here nor there.

The real focus of this web log, post, introduction (what have you) is to explain my absence. It is an explanation that doesn’t mean anything to anyone as I’m sure that most people were not aware A. that I was in existance to begin with and therefore B. Were not aware of my absence from TCKid. This said, I feel the need to explain myself. For those of you who don’t know, and I expect that that is everybody except for Ruth and Brice, I have been a member of TCKid since the world was new….apparently otherwise known as January 18, 2008. It is not until now that I have taken an active role in this fine establishment.

 Why?

That is the question that I have been asking myself since the start. The truth is, there is was nothing wrong with TCKid. It was what I had wanted for a long time. When I was younger I hoped that such a place would exist for TCKs and ATCKs to build connections and to discuss the positive and negative aspects of what it is and what it means to be a TCK. TCKid without a doubt surpasses anything that I could have wished for. Yet the question still remains.

 Why?

Well back at the beginning of my membership I read a lot of the forum posts and noticed that there was a lot of unreconciled grief and feelings of loss which I neither still harbored nor could assist people with which made me wonder if I really belonged on TCKid. I have known Ruth Van Reken for about eight years and through dialogue with her and telling my story I learned to deal with these feelings but I didn’t know what I could do to help others who felt this way. I still stopped by from time to time to read a few posts and many were positive and many were funny but I never really felt very connected. After discussing these feelings and obsevations with both Ruth and Brice  and sitting in on my first teleconference yesterday I have decided that it is time for me to really get involved with TCKid and to give back to the TCK community. After all, it is a valuable resource for TCKs and it is run by wonderful people. You really couldn’t be in better hands.

So finally, I will introduce myself. I am Elizabeth, I am a business kid, I was born in England to the children of Jamaican immigrants, and I have lived in England, USA, Venezuela, and China. I speak Spanish, the smallest sliver of Mandarin imagineable, and I’m learning French.


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August 11, 2008 | Filed Under Blog, General Forum, Introduction 

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    ElizabethD
    ElizabethD Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    HAHAHAHA I wish I didn´t find that as funny as I do.

    (Is this spam?)

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