You must be wondering why my blog is titled "Citizen of the World". It's because it's not easy for me to answer the question "where I'm from" with just one single word. It's weird. The reality is that my parents work for the UN, so I move around a lot but not this time. It will be my fifth year in Jordan! So it should be considered home but for me it doesn't seem like it...
I was born in Tajikistan but my parents got divorced when I was a mere slip of a girl. So while she was a working Mom, she got married to the dad I have now. Basil, yes like the Great Mouse Detective! From Tajikistan I moved to Geneva, Switzerland then to Pristina, Kosovo then to Greece, then Khartoum, Sudan and then I went back to Tajikistan for 6 months and moved here! As a kid, I was't bad with languages, but the more we moved around the world the sooner I would forget the language of the previous country.
Memory: For International Day, my third grade teacher asked where I was from. I said,"I was born in Tajikistan, but I'm American who never lived there; our house is in Greece and currently we live in Jordan as both my parents work for the UN."
When my mom asked me if it was necessary to give such a long expanation, my response was simple: That was the reality, I hate this question as I never know what to say!
Note: My mom is still used to moving so each year in Jordan I have been moving houses!!! How odd is that? If not a country, a house...
I was born in Tajikistan but my parents got divorced when I was a mere slip of a girl. So while she was a working Mom, she got married to the dad I have now. Basil, yes like the Great Mouse Detective! From Tajikistan I moved to Geneva, Switzerland then to Pristina, Kosovo then to Greece, then Khartoum, Sudan and then I went back to Tajikistan for 6 months and moved here! As a kid, I was't bad with languages, but the more we moved around the world the sooner I would forget the language of the previous country.
Memory: For International Day, my third grade teacher asked where I was from. I said,"I was born in Tajikistan, but I'm American who never lived there; our house is in Greece and currently we live in Jordan as both my parents work for the UN."
When my mom asked me if it was necessary to give such a long expanation, my response was simple: That was the reality, I hate this question as I never know what to say!
Note: My mom is still used to moving so each year in Jordan I have been moving houses!!! How odd is that? If not a country, a house...
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