Give me a minute while I blow the dust off my blog. It has been over a month since I have written a post, and I have no valid excuse. I was visiting family, traveling, and writing University essays. In my month of absence I did however gain a lot of inspiration, so keep a look out for some exciting posts coming up!
For today, just a quick post about something that intrigued me. The other day, I was looking through my University library for some books for my essay, and I came across a book titled: "Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among World" by David C. Pollock and Ruth van Reken. It stopped me in my tracks, and I couldn't help but have a quick look through. I was a book filled with information about Third Culture Kids, talking about the effects being a TCK has on the person, talking about how we are different from other kids, and it uses real life examples.
This might sound strange, but the book really surprised me. Not it's content, but the fact that the book exists at all. And after a quick Google search, I found out this is not the only book on Third Culture Kids; it is one of many. To me, being a TCK is just part of who I am, it is how I was brought up, and how a majority of my friends were brought up. I always knew it was not exactly normal to be a TCK, but I never thought someone, or several people, would write books about it which appear in University libraries. It makes me think that I am missing something important about my TCK-ness, that there is something about me that I don't know about yet.
Needless to say, I will be reading this book as soon as I get some free time. I might also write a detailed post about it once I've finished it, do people want to read that? Let me know!
For today, just a quick post about something that intrigued me. The other day, I was looking through my University library for some books for my essay, and I came across a book titled: "Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among World" by David C. Pollock and Ruth van Reken. It stopped me in my tracks, and I couldn't help but have a quick look through. I was a book filled with information about Third Culture Kids, talking about the effects being a TCK has on the person, talking about how we are different from other kids, and it uses real life examples.
This might sound strange, but the book really surprised me. Not it's content, but the fact that the book exists at all. And after a quick Google search, I found out this is not the only book on Third Culture Kids; it is one of many. To me, being a TCK is just part of who I am, it is how I was brought up, and how a majority of my friends were brought up. I always knew it was not exactly normal to be a TCK, but I never thought someone, or several people, would write books about it which appear in University libraries. It makes me think that I am missing something important about my TCK-ness, that there is something about me that I don't know about yet.
Needless to say, I will be reading this book as soon as I get some free time. I might also write a detailed post about it once I've finished it, do people want to read that? Let me know!
