Every day here feels like an adventure. From the moment we got off the plane, I feel as if I’ve been spoiled with new impressions. I love new things: learning them, tasting them, trying them. And photographing them, I want to be a professional photographer when I grow up. My…

I could tell by the look on my mom’s face that something terrible had happened. She looked as if she had been crying. She sat us down, and said: “Nan has passed away. It was unexpected, she never had any pain.” We last spoke three days ago. We last hugged…

Our daughters are nine year old twins. We adopted them from an orphanage in Korea while they were infants, very little was known about their birth parents. The first seven years of their lives we were back home, in France. They attended a local school and experienced a very typical…

My father knew well in advance, like twelve months before, that we would be moving. He really put thought into what me and my siblings needed in order to have a soft landing in Germany. His conclusion was that language was crucial in order to settle in, so he came…

The coming six months we’ll be getting ready to go back home. My mom is stressing out already. My dad is wrapping up his project in three months, and most likely he’ll have to fly out to his new job for a few weeks already. We can’t leave yet, as…

My mom is from Germany, my dad is Japanese, and I was born in the UK. We visited my mom’s relatives frequently, but it wasn’t until I was fourteen that I had the chance to go to Japan. …

A text exchange between two teenagers attending an international school in an Asian expat hub.

We moved last summer, from Poland to Turkey. I was excited about the idea of moving at first, the idea of living in another country and attending an international school was really appealing. But, saying goodbye to my friends and family was much harder than I anticipated. …

It was their decision to move, not mine. I had to quit my school, quit basketball, and leave my friends behind. I had to learn English, find my way around the new school and make new friends. And now they are saying I need to study French every week on…