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My father and mother, all grandparents and some of their parents, my brother and sister were all born in Texas - where the longhorn cows live - and I've lived many more years there than anywhere else, so I suppose I'm really "from" there, but I was born in West Africa and lived there my first two and a half years. So I think I want to say I'm from Nigeria, Kuwait, Texas (USA) and Indonesia (well those are the places where I lived, a few years each, up to the age of 12 ... after that, mostly from Texas (USA) and then in China for most of a year and then mostly Indonesia again since 2011 ... I'm currently living temporarily in Thailand, for some vague reason, and there is a Belgian guy (not sure from which side) teaching in the same school, as well as a couple of Filipinas.
I'm from mostly Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English and German descent. I have eaten tomatoes (?) in a few different places and some definitely tasted better than others, Texan singer-songwriter Guy Clark wrote a song about homegrown tomatoes and some movies were made about Killer Tomatoes ... in one of those films the Killer Tomatoes were in France, I have also been to France but wasn't killed there by tomatoes or anything else, and can remember that when I had to choose a foreign language class at JES in Jakarta when I was about ten or eleven, for some reason I chose French, instead of Bahasa Indonesia (?)
I have no known links to Macedonia(ns), nor Australia(ns) or Canada(ians) but my father's second wife lived in Yorkshire for many years and I have been to Bingley - where she used to own a house - York, and Leeds; also to a small town called Horsham in the South of England where some of her relatives were living back in the day, and I spent a few months in "the Smoke" in the mid-80s; she (father's second wife) was from the European continent as well (not sure which country, originally) and was adopted by an English family after things got rather unpleasant there in the late 30s or so.
My father died in Norwich; he was born in McKinney, in East Texas, and was familiar as am I with most or all of the places in Texas that Happy named, and his grandfather came down from North Carolina to Texas to be a cowboy, the family had come to N. Carolina, from Pennsylvania, where my great-great-great etc had landed from Wales in 1748.
I had a good friend back in the USA who comes from a small town in southeastern Poland, but emigrated to the US in the early 90's, became a US citizen and has lived in the Midwest (Chicago) ever since; I support the Spurs of the National Basketball Association, (whose head coach of the last five thousand years, a Mr. Popovich, is of Serbian heritage), and my wife is Indonesian,so there is probably something to the theory that, as my Polish friend used to like to say, "everything is connected" and maybe it really is a "smallworld", after all ...
Of the countries that I lived in as a kid, Indonesia had a much bigger influence and left a much heavier impression with me than the other two non-US countries, as it was the last and I can remember very little about the others, to be honest. So the biggest influence on my life other than the US has certainly been from Indonesia and so it seems "cocok banget" to me that I wind up, after so many years away, with what feels now like a "permanent connection" to Indonesia in my life.
I'm from mostly Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English and German descent. I have eaten tomatoes (?) in a few different places and some definitely tasted better than others, Texan singer-songwriter Guy Clark wrote a song about homegrown tomatoes and some movies were made about Killer Tomatoes ... in one of those films the Killer Tomatoes were in France, I have also been to France but wasn't killed there by tomatoes or anything else, and can remember that when I had to choose a foreign language class at JES in Jakarta when I was about ten or eleven, for some reason I chose French, instead of Bahasa Indonesia (?)
I have no known links to Macedonia(ns), nor Australia(ns) or Canada(ians) but my father's second wife lived in Yorkshire for many years and I have been to Bingley - where she used to own a house - York, and Leeds; also to a small town called Horsham in the South of England where some of her relatives were living back in the day, and I spent a few months in "the Smoke" in the mid-80s; she (father's second wife) was from the European continent as well (not sure which country, originally) and was adopted by an English family after things got rather unpleasant there in the late 30s or so.
My father died in Norwich; he was born in McKinney, in East Texas, and was familiar as am I with most or all of the places in Texas that Happy named, and his grandfather came down from North Carolina to Texas to be a cowboy, the family had come to N. Carolina, from Pennsylvania, where my great-great-great etc had landed from Wales in 1748.
I had a good friend back in the USA who comes from a small town in southeastern Poland, but emigrated to the US in the early 90's, became a US citizen and has lived in the Midwest (Chicago) ever since; I support the Spurs of the National Basketball Association, (whose head coach of the last five thousand years, a Mr. Popovich, is of Serbian heritage), and my wife is Indonesian,so there is probably something to the theory that, as my Polish friend used to like to say, "everything is connected" and maybe it really is a "smallworld", after all ...
Of the countries that I lived in as a kid, Indonesia had a much bigger influence and left a much heavier impression with me than the other two non-US countries, as it was the last and I can remember very little about the others, to be honest. So the biggest influence on my life other than the US has certainly been from Indonesia and so it seems "cocok banget" to me that I wind up, after so many years away, with what feels now like a "permanent connection" to Indonesia in my life.
