Want to be notified of new posts? Get the RSS Feed or Register by Email
my semi-eventful day
This post has 157 views
Today started like any other day… decent. then, in my Spanish class, a girl gave a presentation on “Cuando Era Puertorriquena” (when I was puertorican), which is about a girl who moved to the US from PR, and was never considered American, so she moved back to PR after graduating from Harvard. When she got there, no one considered her PRican anymore either. So… here she was, stuck between these two cultures (sound familiar anyone?). That led to an interesting discussion between several gringos, 4 immigrants, and 2 TCKs (my teacher and I). My teacher and I were trying to explain how it feels to have no home, no homecountry, no hometown, no homeculture, no home address, no home. Several people didn’t understand. So my prof. and I decided to buy an island and make that every TCKs homebase (a typical TCK dream I’d say) where we could easily travel from, but always come back and be “home”. Or would we rather be homeless? I love having a TCK teacher. (besides the fact that I get good grades any time I write about not belonging anywhere :-))
Then… our campus had a “security threat” and we all had to be locked in our offices/rooms. It reminded me of my days at middle and high school, though slightly scary still.
AND… like Charm, I just finished my huge research paper tonight too, and now today is officially Friday!!!
What do you think of this post?
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ...
Related Posts
Comments
9 Responses to “my semi-eventful day”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
-
Top Commentators
- Ayako (781)
- Cynthia (554)
- miyon (505)
- Uncle Dan (502)
- mairabay (368)
- kristine (363)
- MsMerising (279)
- mmmmmm (249)
- marie (229)
- Cattt (224)
Polls
Loading ...
December 6th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Wow Jess, your prof sounds really cool. I wish I had a TCK teacher back then! Hey, is there an island for me too? lol
(Is this spam?)
December 7th, 2007 at 1:52 am
An Island would be cool especially with lots of TCKs hanging around between trips
(Is this spam?)
December 7th, 2007 at 2:23 am
You think any TCK is really, really filthy rich? I mean, we keep saying this, and someone should really get out there and do it, haha!
(Is this spam?)
December 7th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Isn’t Obama a TCK? He could give us our own island! We should make a petition. That would be awesome… an island, just for us.
What would it be called though? And what would happen there?
(Is this spam?)
December 7th, 2007 at 11:25 am
i went to a high school (boarding school) that was majority tck, i guess that is the closest to an island that i ever got. it was really cool, it made me not self destruct as a teen because i was always surrounded by others like me, it was very normal that people did not speak their ‘mother tongue’ or that they spoke 3 or 4 different languages. there were all sorts of different mixes (e.g. ghana-philipino, zambia-russia, swiss-china, ghana-brazil, botswana-denmark) so that was very normal too.
i vote ‘yes’ for our own island1
(Is this spam?)
December 7th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Any American citizens want to write to Obama and say “I’ll vote for you if TCKs get an island?” ^^
(Is this spam?)
December 7th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
AHH! I wish I had a TCK teacher! LOL I’m jelly. Jealous LOL. Anyways, that is soo cool! I mean the idea of an island. HOME HOME HOME! LOL.
(Is this spam?)
December 8th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Ah warona, you’re so lucky. I wish I grew up in that environment in my teens.
Kristine, since you have Photoshop skills, you should make a flag for the TCK island haha
What would the island be called? Montreal? lol
(Is this spam?)
December 8th, 2007 at 3:24 am
How about just, simply, “Home”. Since that is what many of us feel that we lack, it’d be fun to say “Where are you from?”
“What, me? Oh, i’m from Home, y’know, the island…”
“Where do you call home?”
“Well, that’s easy, the island of Home is my home.”
(Is this spam?)