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Graduating TCKs
“Home might not be this house but home is always this family. Come rejoicing, come weeping, come whole, come broken, come lonely, come with packs of friends, come in silence, come and spill it all. This table, meaning the table I’ve set in my heart for our family, always has room.”
MK re-entry is all about survival, much like it is for any expatriate moving to a new and foreign country. It requires a lot of sustained energy to learn to navigate any new place and homebound TCK’s are no different, even though we like to think we are.”
These are great tips for a TCK transitioning to college from overseas. One thing the author mentions is finding a “cultural coach”. When I was in college, I asked older TCKs who had lived in the States longer than I had for advice and for information about America and so forth.
