Brittany Alford — The Ultimate Takeaway of Being an Expat in Costa Rica (Part 3 of 3)

Lifelong friends Though Brittany Alford encountered countless challenges adjusting to her new life in Costa Rica, she wouldn’t take any of it back. Immersing yourself into a culture that you aren’t familiar with is scary at times, but any opportunity […]

Culture shock Hopping off the plane in Costa Rica, Brittany Alford eagerly awaited the new experiences she would encounter during her stay. However, once she landed, she was overwhelmed by the differences she would already encounter. Alford had been on […]

An Itch For Travel Brittany Alford, a senior attending Texas State University, had a desire to see more of the world. After taking a solo trip with her friends to Hawaii when she was 19 years old, she knew she […]

Discovering my Third Culture Kid (TCK) identity as an adult has been like a predestined romance waiting to happen before I had the language for it. Yet throughout this love affair, realized in the process of claiming a tribe, I’ve […]

Fitness and lifestyle coach Melissa Neill is a proud, biracial British woman who is “very comfortable” in her own skin. In an interview with Culturs Magazine, she talks about her upbringing in Ghana and the U.K., the challenges her single […]

We all know the United States’ 45th president, Barack Obama. However, a lot of people are unaware of his lifestyle as a boy. He spent his early childhood moving from country to country with his mother and never fully settled […]

Adult TCK and mixed-media artist Alec Von Bargen uses art as a method to express himself and educate those around him.  For many Third Culture Kids (TCKs), it’s a struggle for them to understand their roots and where they are […]

Viggo Mortensen is an adult Third Culture Kid who has appeared in a number of films in multiple languages.  Mortensen was born to a Danish father and U.S. mother, both who met in Norway. Mortensen was born in New York […]