I don’t know if it’s just me but I think the best fun TCK/CCK stories are about accents- see I’m bulgarian but also lived in the US as a kid, so both languages are pretty much the same thing to me. In the US, I was visiting New York last year and along came a college student who was gathering money for some sociological survey he was doing. He asked us for some money,and I was with a friend of mine who lives in the states but is bulgarian (thing is, he went when he was 15 so he doesn’t speak English like I do). So the guy asks us where we’re from. My friend says well, I live in Virginia Beach but I’m from Bulgaria. Then I say I’m also from Bulgaria. Then he asks where I live in the states and I’m like, “California”; and he’s like, “Oh, ok so you’re not from Bulgaria after all you’re from California”, and I’m like “No, actually I’m not”… Guy basically just got really confused and soon left Fast forward to this year, I was sitting waiting for somebody in the downtown of my “home” city Sofia in Bulgaria. Along came some foreign tourists and they were like “We’re looking for a bar around here would you tell us where we can find one” and I told them a good one I know which was nearby. Then one of them asked me”Where do you live?” and I said “In this city”; he then said”But your English is too good, you can’t be a native?”; and I’m like “No, I am, it’s just a long story”. I’m sure many of you guys have quite similiar stories to these; and maybe they’re the most fun- and bizarre- thing about growing up multicultural.

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