Previous stop: Paris, France
Current stop: Connecticut, U.S.A.
Next stop: Who knows?
Hello and thanks for stopping by my blog!
I am an adult third culture kid, and I am currently back in the U.S. after many years in France, and most of my life overseas. I am Lebanese-American, but have been raised all over the world. I was born in Cyprus, but have also lived in the U.S.A, Mexico, the Philippines, Australia, France and England. I did most of those moves with my loving, wonderful parents and my two amazing siblings.
I’m married to my high-school sweetheart, who is originally Italian, and also a third culture kid. Both of those points make me even luckier to have found him. I spoke 3 languages in varying degrees of fluency until I met my husband, after which I added a 4th (yes, Italian). I can understand a 5th (Arabic), but please don’t ask me to say anything – I have to admit that calling myself Lebanese and having the accent I have is quite shameful at times. My husband speaks all the languages I speak, so you can imagine how confusing our conversations must seem to others, but that just comes with the third culture kid territory.
I love being a third culture kid and everything it has given me, despite the difficulties that may come with such a life. My blog is a collection of my thoughts, feelings, and musings about being an adult third culture kid, but also about anything and everything else that comes to my mind. I’ll also post pictures once in a while, just to share whatever beauty the world has to offer that I have the joy and luck of capturing. I hope my blog can bring some measure of comfort, joy, understanding, or simply just make someone smile.
I hope you’ll join me for the journey!
Please feel free to leave any thoughts, comments or suggestions – I look forward to hearing from you!
Wow! I’m impressed by the number of languages you speak/understand! Two of my sisters are like that (very talented with languages). After 7 years back in the States, my Mandarin is pretty rusty so I’m nearly down to just English at this point, haha! Anyway, I love that you married an Italian too! I’m looking forward to reading more about you.
Thanks for stopping by! I know what you mean about rusty languages – I haven’t had to use my Spanish for a while, then I started learning Italian and my brain got really confused! But those languages are there somewhere inside the brain, if we really need them, I’m sure we can pull them out!
And I must say I’m impressed by you knowing Mandarin, I know that I’d have a really really hard time learning a language like that!
I’m A from the Philippines. Just wondering where in the Philippines you have stayed.
Nice blog you got going.
Hi A – nice to meet you! Thanks for stopping by my blog and for your kind comment
I lived in Manila for 2 years, quite some years ago! Whereabouts in the Philippines are you from?
Quezon City. Hope your stay in Manila was loads of fun.
Hello, I’ve stumbled upon your blog through your comment on mine, and I love your blog! Have clicked the “follow” button, so I’ll be following your posts from now on
Best wishes, Sarah.
Thanks very much for your comment and for subscribing, Sarah! It means a lot to me and I hope to keep you interested. Really enjoyed your blog, so I’ll definitely be popping over again
Looking forward to hearing from you again! Best wishes to you too, and have a fantastic weekend!
Well that was really cool to read! really impressed by the languages you can speak & understand! I speak three up to now, english, norwegian and arabic but I can understand a couple more languages and use some of their words when i talk. Haha the confused looks I get from other people when i speak all the languages in one conversation! Im working on my spanish my guy is kind of teaching me i suppose:’) & I think its really cute that you married the guy you was with at highschool! Well I really like your blog so ill be checking it out again sometime!:)
Thanks for stopping by on my blog before, appreciate it!:)
Wow, I’m impressed by the languages you speak – they’re all so different, and I know that arabic is a really tough one! I’m sure Norwegian would be super tough for me, since it’s such a different lanuage from the ones I know! I know what you mean about being able to understand other languages or use some of their words, and I definitely know those confused looks when people hear us speak so many different languages in our conversation! But sometimes that’s part of the fun
Good luck with your spanish, your guy and your blog – looking forward to reading more!
Thanks for your very cool and lovely comment and for following my blog, I really appreciate that a lot!
Wow, you’re very lucky to have lived such an interesting life in such diverse places! What are the other languages you speak/know besides Italian and Arabic? I always admire people who are so fluent in languages; I am in French and English and can read/listen to Spanish really well, but they are all so similar. I am trying to slowly learn Arabic as it is my husband’s native language, but it is difficult! Anyways, I will be following your blog
It’s a very enriching life, even if it’s not always easy. Apart from Italian and Arabic (which I’m still working on very much), I am fully bilingual in English and French (they are my mother tongues), and I am more or less fluent in Spanish (it’s gotten quite rusty over the years!). So it seems we pretty much cover the same languages – what a great coincidence!
And Arabic is very difficult – I can’t read or write it at all, but I do my best at speaking and understanding it as much as possible! Thanks for your great comments and for following my blog, I really appreciate that! Good luck with your Arabic and I look forward to reading more of your blog 
Thank you for visiting my blog and I am quite impressed with yours … you write very well and I love your photos! It sounds as if you’ve led a very interesting life and you’re only a couple states away from me! I’ll be back to read more!
Thank you very much for your lovely comment, I really appreciate it! I love what I’ve seen of your blog so far, so I’ll definitely be back to read more and see more of your beautiful pictures!
New England really is a beautiful place…I hadn’t really been here much before moving to Connecticut, but I really do love it. You make New Hampshire look spectacular in your pictures – it’s definitely on our list of places to see! 
Thanks for dropping by my blog, Dounia. I love yours too and I’m glad to know that you’ve lived in the Philippines before.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! I look forward to seeing more of your blog and to hearing from you again in the future!
You’ve had a very interesting life, Dounia! I, on the other hand, speak English, fluently occasionally!
Thanks for your comment! And being able to speak one language fluently, even occasionally is a good thing.
Judging by your blog, however, you are very talented at expressing yourself in written form (and I am certain that translates itself in spoken too). 
All about Language here
Arabic and English is all i got 
Nice Name by the way
Thanks for your comment, and I’m happy you liked the name!
Thank you, Dounia, for visiting my blog and leaving your kind comments. Your “about me” – wow! I met my hubbs in CT, I was living in Greenwich, he in Stamford.
You have lived many places and have an interesting, fun blog – I will definitely be back to check out more
Cheers! MJ
Thanks for stopping by, MJ! I look forward to hearing from you again
From the moment we found out that we were moving to CT, we were suddenly hearing all these connections to CT, even people we’d known for a long time, and had no idea they had some story about CT! It was really fun finding out all those things, as they were a little extra for us to take with us, so I really liked reading that you and your husband met here
Your comment on my blog means a lot to me; I’m very happy you’ve enjoyed it so far! Hope to hear from you again soon!
Hey lady! I’ve so enjoyed reading your blog, so I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award!
All the info is here: http://6monthstolive.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/honored-humbled-part-2/ Keep up the great writing!
Wow, thanks Jacqueline!
That means so much to me and I’m very excited to prepare my post about it 
Yay!
I’m really happy to have found your blog (through ’6 Months to Live’), because it seems like we have a lot in common
I am living in my third country and practicing my third language. Hoping to make that four sometime soon 
Looking forward to reading more of your posts!
Thanks for stopping by! It does seem like we have quite a bit in common, and I always love finding people who’ve had similar experiences to me
What are the 3 languages you speak and the 3 countries you’ve lived in (I saw in your other comment London and South of France…where are you now?)? Hope to hear from you again!
Hi, I just discovered your blog. I envy your exposure to different places and cultures. All the best!
Hi and welcome!
Thanks for commenting and for stopping by – it’s a wonderful experience, but it’s definitely a challenge too! Hope to hear from you again and have a wonderful weekend!