Cuba: An Experience of Art and Culture

Cuban Artists I recently visited Cuba.  Over the past year this place has been extremely popular, most likely since President Obama’s visit.  I have always known about Cuba, but when the opportunity presented itself for me to go I realized perhaps I didn’t know as much as I should.  Plus...

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Haiti Initiative

Take the Initiative today! I have been going on a lot lately about this on social media and talking with everyone I meet.  In this article I’m going more in depth than what I usually do on social media posts.  In order to answer the question “what is the Haiti...

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An Art Attack in Haiti

Haiti Gets an Art Attack   Haiti Initiative 2016 happened in November.  As I embarked on this journey to Haiti all that went through my mind was this resounding question, “What will I do for this one orphanage?”   I had nine days to accomplish a task.  Many of those days...

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The MK Chronicles

The MK Chronicles - Friends in Your "Home" Country   The picture may suggest I had no American friends, or that MK's don't become friends with Americans.  That really isn't the point of the graphic.  If you're an MK or TCK you'll get it.  The real meaning behind this is...it...

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A Simple Meal

“Uh…What’s THAT?” My first exposure to short term mission could not have been any more ideal.   I had just moved from Brazil to the US at the age of 15.  During those first months  I accompanied a Spanish speaking church from Texas to do a few days of Vacation Bible...

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Dilemmas of the TCK

The Dilemmas of TCK’s The Third Culture Kid is made up of an intricate web of cross-cultural experiences, various languages, varying expectations and heightened awareness. A true amalgamation of the places he/she has lived. The major challenges are faced when the child is old enough to begin to reason, become...

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The Hidden Immigrant

The Hidden Immigrant – My Personal TCK Syndrome This defines me. It also defines thousands of others out there.  The “Third Culture Kid”. “A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ culture.  The TCK builds...

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5 Things Not to Do on a Missions Trip

This topic is what sparks those hilarious and/or dreadful stories of the mission field.  Someone broke a cultural norm and offended a local resident, or perhaps wondered off to go exploring...and even worse.   I grew up in Brazil and it was easy for me to catch the little things people...

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