Imagine having friends all around the world. That sounds perfect, right. Well, there are definitely a lot of great things about growing up in different countries and cultures.But what does it really mean to be a third culture kid. My name is Louisa Truscoa and let me start by telling you what a third culture kid is. According to the BBC, a third culture kid is a kid that spends their formative years in a country that is not their parents' homeland.I have lived in six different countries and five of those co ...

2014, Germany wins the World Cup and this six-year-old boy leaves the US after three exciting years. I remember him proudly telling his teacher and classmates that his new country were football world champions. In fact, this boy was me and my new country, Germany, was actually the country that I was born in.And this was a piece of my farewell cake. But this piece of cake was no piece of cake at all. It starts the journey of a third culture kid who at 15 has already lived on four different continents.Making ...

Oh. Oh. [Music] [Applause] Where are you from.Sounds like a simple question, right. But if you're anything like me, you'll pause. Not because you don't know, but because where do you even begin to explain.My parents are from one country. I was raised in another, went to school in a different one, and feel at home in a fourth. And the truth is, I don't fully belong anywhere.But weirdly enough, I feel like I belong everywhere. And that's what it's like being a third culture kid or short TCK. We're the kids th ...