Stuck between worlds —what being a third culture kid really is

Joanna Ng
4 min readJun 16, 2021
Photo by Fernando @cferdo on Unsplash

“We’re constantly saying goodbye — our friends leave all the time.”

My heart wrenched at hearing those words from the 7-year-old boy. I had been filming a video for Singaporeans abroad in Shanghai then, and the idea was to uncover stories on how Singaporean families were living their lives. We decided that it would be interesting to include some children in…

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Joanna Ng

Passionate about telling and listening stories of life