I’ve Been Doing Some Thinking

Reflections on Home & the Sickness Thereof

May 1, 2021
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Life, Being Human, Expat Life, I’ve Been Doing Some Thinking

Alternate Title: Coco and the Quest for the Lost Home When I was in elementary school, I had a best friend who often got homesick. To me, it seemed, to a baffling degree. We were always at each other’s houses, accepted as part of one another’s families. Yet despite this, sometimes during sleepovers at my house she would get so homesick that she would be reduced to tears, and we would have to call her parents to come get her....

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Hey there! I'm Corissa, a Hong Kong-grown American expat living in Keelung. I like to explore and write about it! I hope for what I write here to be useful, inspiring, thought-provoking and fun! Join me as I learn all about what makes Taiwan Taiwan. New posts as often as I can!

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