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People from across the world have joined TCKID to help make a difference in their lives and others. Tell us why you’ve joined this community and how it inspires you.
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For me, the word that best describes the first teleclass is sanctuary. Synchronously, the teleclass took place right when I needed it the most. I recently lost my balance in a setting led by non-TCKs. So, the TCK teleclass was extremely healing and it affirmed my identity. My heart goes out to all those involved with launching it and I’m very thankful and grateful.
“I’m starting a fantastic obsession with this website. That’s what I’m doing right now. And I’ll keep doing it until I have to leave for work. - Nika
“This place is addicting, you dont know what this place has done to me hahha. i tend to be there a few hours a day. this place is addicting. trust me, once you’re in the chatroom talking to us, you’ll be hooked (understatement)” - Kristine
“This is so exciting… I’m reading some of the posts here and the stories are soo familiar..it’s great! I can’t believe that even after trawling the net for so long I didn’t find this place earlier!” - Kita
“Hey Brice, I really love hearing about things like this happening through these emails because it keeps me up to date when I don’t have the time to spend on Internet. Thanks for emailing me. - Sky”
“Hi Brice,
It’s Nadine.
Thanks for your mail. When I read through it I was kind of relieved,
knowing about others who understand. “
March 10th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Why I love TCKID… My parents are american…missionaries. When I was 2 we moved to Honduras. When I was 3, we moved to Africa. When I was 6, we moved back to the States. When I was 8, we moved to Saudi Arabia. As an adult, I moved to Uganda and worked with Missionary Kids and read the book Third Culture Kids…I didn’t know I had my own culture, I just knew that I was always leaving friends behind and trying to find my way into already established groups. As a quiet person, this was not easy for me. I have a passion for TCK’s who return to the USA and have to adapt to this crazy culture!
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May 9th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I have always had a problem with someone who asks me “Where is your hometown?” As most of us do/did. I’ve been in Fort Worth TX for oh, say, forty years, and have forged friendships here that I treasure. But even with my long-standing friends who call this city “home” I have to kind of wiggle in embarrassment when someone asks, ” You remember the So and So’s don’t you? Their daughter went to (name of school) and the mother was a member of (name the social club or Junior League, etc.)” I have to straighten up, look my friend straight in the eye and remind her, “Remember, I didn’t grow up here. I didn’t go to school here. I don’t know the same people you do.” And then it’s her turn to be embarrassed.
Of course, that happens a lot with older people. Which I are one.
But what really got me started on this thought was when I was registering on some social network site (for book marketing purposes, mainly) and after filling in all the pertinent facts of my existence, there was a space for “Hometown.”
I didn’t hesitate for a minute. In the space, I wrote, ” I don’t have any. I’m an Army Brat.”
I could have added, “And darned proud of it.”
Marilyn
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May 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I am here out of a sense of belonging being a TCK myself and I must say the day i found out this word I felt immediately relieved in some way like it wasn’t just my problem or something inadequate about myself alone.
At the same time I am also here out of a lack of sense of belonging, to my home country as indicated on passport, where I have now been living for 15 years, so hey after 15 years here I am still with issues coming back up every now and then! TCKs have inner issues to be dealt with and understood better yet solved in order to peacefully accept them while they live their life and stop feeling inadequate or alone…that is the main feeling we risk a deep solitude which can lead to an inner conflict between who we really feel we are and who we allow ourselves to be on the outside
I am ready to volounteer and offer support, efforts and time to helping other TCKs in some way as I feel tacking action helping others you feel in your similar situation actually helps you in the first place.
TCKs are a great resource for our world and it is great to have a community where we can discuss share and mutually give or take from one another hopefully bridging those gaps we feel inside that every now and then come back up and keep us awake one random night in our regular life routine,
Thank you
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May 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I am here out of a sense of belonging being a TCK myself and I must say the day i found out this word I felt immediately relieved in some way like it wasn’t just my problem or something inadequate about myself alone.
At the same time I am also here out of a lack of sense of belonging, to my home country as indicated on passport, where I have now been living for 15 years, so hey after 15 years here I am still with issues coming back up every now and then! TCKs have inner issues to be dealt with and understood better yet solved in order to peacefully accept them while they live their life and stop feeling inadequate or alone…that is the main feeling we risk a deep solitude which can lead to an inner conflict between who we really feel we are and who we allow ourselves to be on the outside
I am ready to volounteer and offer support, efforts and time to helping other TCKs in some way as I feel tacking action helping others you feel in your similar situation actually helps you in the first place.
TCKs are a great resource for our world and it is great to have a community where we can discuss share and mutually give or take from one another hopefully bridging those gaps we feel inside that every now and then come back up and keep us awake one random night in our regular life routine,
Thank you
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May 17th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
About seven months ago I also became a TCK, having lived in my birth country for more than 40 years. Now I know what it feels like being confronted with a different culture, different norms and different ways of thinking and living. But what a wonderful surprise to stumble upon the TCK website - suddenly I had resources and support from people who know what I’m experiencing and what issues I’m struggling with. Hopefully I will have the chance to be available to support other TCK’s in the future!
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May 24th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I understand everyone. I am a through and through third culture kid. I still am. I lived in the US till I was 7, then Israel till I was 10, then to Cyprus till I was 13, then Romania till I was 16, and now in the Netherlands for almost a year and I am turning 17. I feel different, I feel unbelnging in my own home, and I thought it was because I was strange or weird. I am not. I know it now. BUt its hard to fit in and it does feel lonely osmetimes. I want to help others and connect. This site really helps me.
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May 29th, 2009 at 7:04 am
I’m TCKer through and through: born in Tanzania (1yr), then Bangladesh (1yr), Sudan (4yrs), Geneva (11yrs), then parents in Eritrea and me in school in Tanzania (2yrs), and then off to passport country the Netherlands at age 19!! What a shock!! After 3yrs, off to Finland (1/2yr), NL for 1/2yr, USA (1yr), Paris (1yr), Netherlands (4yrs), Kenya (1/2yr) and now in the Netherlands for the last 4yrs… I feel I will never belong here, or really anywhere for that matter but have to find a way to make peace with that. Perhaps this site or groups like this can help!
Don’t misunderstand though: it’s an unbelieavable experience growing up in difference cultures and I can’t imagine having had to miss out on any of it, it really broadens you view of the world!!
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May 30th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Hi everyone!
Here’s why I support TCKID:
I felt like a huge burden was lifted from my heart when I read other peoples testimonials and experiences and especially listening to the e-class lecture…it was finaly OK not to feel guilty about /not /missing “Home” a.k.a Costa Rica, and not really feeling anywhere was home… :-p here I was all these years thinking I was just a really confused person. Especially now in my adult life when I had to make a choice of where to live and start “my life”.
I’m from Costa Rica (born there and my parents are from there, though my Dad is aso a TCK) and grew up in Paraguay, Thailand, and the US… currently though Im working and living in China and since Im a musician I tend to travel a lot for concerts…so havent really been stationed anywhere for a while.
A Friend recently lent me the book /Third Culture Kids /and I was facinated by it!
I kept looking for information on TCKids and found the site.
I think it is great what you have done.
It was like I finally undertood myself after 25 years :-p … so
at any rate. Thank you SO much for having such an AWESOME site. I am eternally grateful
Amanda
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June 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Hey there!
I am excited! I COMPLETELY believe in the mission and focus of TCKids. The God-given passion that Brice shows is inspiring. He evidently understands the importance of PURPOSE.
I come from a racially and culturally diverse background AND I grew up living the life of an Ambassador’s daughter - attending girls’ boarding schools along the way. I was born in one country, raised in another and live in a third AND my heritage is across the board - from the UK to Africa to The Middle East (Lebanon).
I have experienced a myriad of challenging situations in my life and came to understand that I have been blessed with the ability to HELP OTHERS deal with similar challenges. I discovered that I am an effective encourager and developed the methodology that ensured that anyone who came to me for some help would ALWAYS leave feeling better about themselves than when they came to me.
I studied Psychology, mentored and worked in the corporate (real estate, marketing, media) arena for a few years and now run my own life and career coaching practice. I also write articles and blogs on various subjects - the purpose of which are to ENLIGHTEN others or illicit a different way of looking at things.
I am a proponent of cross-cultural communication and the promotion of peace. I derive JOY from bringing people a little closer to the semblance of peace in their lives.
I would love to be of service to the TCK community in whichever capacity I am needed - as a coach, mentor, writer or all of the above!
Sincerely Yours,
Ayshah Victoria Powers
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June 21st, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I have been teaching at an international school in Xi’an, China for two years now. I initially entered the international teaching circuit to try to escape from a growing sense of estrangement following America’s dramatic cultural shift in the aftermath of 9/11. Up to that point, I had thought I had successfully and seamlessly re-integrated into U.S. society.
I was teaching high school French in a small farming community and loving the fact that I was enough of a figure in the community that I could walk up to the bank with no I.D. and be able to withdrawal money. I thought I had found a place where I belonged. But, when the small community of teachers I worked and played with expressed no sense of shared humanity with victims of our wars of misdirected revenge and greed, I woke up to the fact that my belonging had only been skin deep. And, I have been roaming and searching for that sense ever since.
As yet, however, I have not found a community of TCKs. My students are my community. They are TCKs marooned in a school and community that has no sense or understanding of their issues. And I haven’t resolved many of them myself.
I have never been willing to spend the time to connect with one of these communities. Dave Pollock came to my high school in Cote d’Ivoire to counsel the 20+ students in my graduating class, but I didn’t follow much of his advice. I did not plug in. But, for the sake of my kids, I think I am ready now to try and learn and understand more. I hope that this site will help me to educate my fellow teachers as well as help me to lead my students down a better path than I took myself.
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