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The weather has been awful here with torrential rain and crazy winds – apparently Perth is known as Australia’s “Windy City”… who knew! I suppose you don’t get great waves for surfing if you’re not this windy. Anyway, this past weekend the weather had relaxed a little and so we decided to do a road […]

I distinctly remember members of our family telling us not to bother looking for work in Perth from the UK. They said that it would take as little as a week to land a job there, and if we were contacting recruitment agencies all the way from England, it would be difficult to attend those […]

Is anyone on here currently studying at the University  of Leicester???

Distance, like everything else, is relative. The Earth is round after all. “It’s just a plane ride away”, I heard my husband say when I complained about how far we would be from everyone we knew when we moved to Australia. In fact, that was also most of my friends’ sentiments; they were reacting in […]

Here’s my latest guest post. Please read it if you are a TCK and transitioning to university or college. There’s 10 great tips there too. read: transitioning globally to university

We have now been in Perth for 6 weeks. We struggled to get things done in a timely manner in “Wait Awhile”. So, in order to help others struggle less and get things done slightly quicker, I compiled a list of suggestions on how to settle in Perth. I only hope that this might make […]

Dear fellow TCK’s 🙂 I am currently a master student in Oxford, who would like to invite you to participate in an interview researching: TCK’s as a by-product of globalization and their challenges and potential for multinational hospitality companies. If you fit in the following criteria, please feel free to PM me. Born: Between 1985 […]

Parents are weird. I think its safe to say that’s a fairly universal truth, yes? But not many of my non-TCK friends have the issue of actually fighting with a parent over whether or not the kid is ‘patriotic’ enough. Dad, I’ve lived in 8 different places. And that is mostly YOUR fault, too, while […]

– Victoria, British Columbia – Yangon, Myanmar – Hanoi, Vietnam – possibly Moreal, Canada – In the redwood forest/ on the coast of California 🙂 – Portland, Oregon or Bend, Oregon – Olympia, Washington – Hawaii! – Chengdu, China – Oakland, California    short term stints in: – Denmark in general – Seoul, Korea – […]

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