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Squid · Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Sunny Anyang

I left England in 1984, and have been travelling since. Most times it's good, except when you get ripped off badly. Sometimes I feel a bit of heartache when I visit into a family gathering or such... where a big family gets together and talks closely, then I envy that situation a little.

Also living out of a suitcase becomes a drag and moving regularly also a headache.

But you learn to stand up for yourself and become quite resourceful, much more so than most of the students I teach.

It also breeds a lot of cynicism in a person, if I'm anything to go by. Nothing changes in the world wherever you go, whatever you're running from or running to.

Iggy Pop- Just a passenger cheers me up these kinds of days.

Squid the introspect

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

I'm stateless, but I'm planning a coup to retake the country of my birth. Mugabe must die.
If anyone is up for it, i'll be leading a terrorist group of whiteys into Zimbabwe armed with Fn's and a few rocket launchers. The prize? The most beautiful country on earth, a backyard that reaches to the horizon, and a swimming pool.
"we will rise again and again, until the land is ours".
RISE O VOICES OF RHODESIA

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

I couldn't do it... I'm only 22 and already feeling the strong urge to find a house and put down roots.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Nope... I'm considering staying in Korea a second year because I have a potentially good job offer in a non-school situation. BUT

I grew up in a stable environment... and that's what I want out of life. I want to find a girl, have a family, build a house, and enjoy the good life... I travelled all over the US as a kid and there are places I wouldn't mind seeing as an adult... But I need a Home (with a capital H).

Butterfly · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait

Where did the OP go?

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Sorry for the late reply. Been out of the loop the last couple of days....so so busy.

Later today, when I finally have some free time I'll post answers to your questions Butterfly. I am sure they would be helpful to all those raising children in a foreign land.

We "Third-Culture Kids" are difinetly the wave of the future.

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Usually when asked the infernal question "What country are you from?", I answer "Africa". This usually shocks Koreans into not asking anymore questions about my nationality. note: I say "AfRika."

If I could pigeon-hole myself into one particular block it would have to be a generic "British-African."

Although I lived for almost four years in Indonesia before my family was deported, that was in a grass hut in the highlands of Irian Jaya and I was just a little baby and dont remember it all that well apart from the shrunken heads and former cannibal neighbours.

I have lived in 13 countries (Korea is lucky #13) and travelled to around 90 or so countries (I think, lost count after 70 or so and dont keep score).

A "stable evironment", what is that? This is the only life I have know. Travelling from country to country. Meeting new and interesting people.

Rapier.....we should meet up sometime. Have a Brai or something. Used to visit Zimbabwe\Rhodesia a lot when I lived in Botswana. Aways thought that when I finally check out, I would loved to be buried like Cecil Rhodes. On top of a hill overlooking the veldt, nothing but beautiful African country side for kilometres around.

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Back when I was in my early twenties I did what many of the poster here have done. Went on a trip to find myself and learn about a different way of life.

'Cept I went back to my home country. Tried to get a nice, "normal" job; settle down and conform to society.

But I hated it and didnt fit in in America. I was quite literally a stranger in a strange land.

So, I did a sort of "midnight run" back to this life and couldn't be happier.

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Gosp · Joined: 13 May 2004 Location: 85% There.

We've all had many lifetimes on this planet; and most of us have lived past lives on different planets in numerous galaxies. Hell, I'm not even from this galaxy originally �� you know the Pleiades? ok go there. It's all so temporary. My passport says American but I live on Earth. On a different note, a lot of people call America the "melting pot" of the world. It's rare that you'll find anyone here [esp. in the South] who is of one solid genetic stock so to speak [i.e. full German descent or full Irish descent]. I myself am a mixture of Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, German, Italian, and Cherokee Indian ancestry. Is there any other place on Earth that spawns such muts as America?

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003