About ENSO and the global consequences.

What is the ENSO Phenomenon? For the Earth System Research Laboratory (n.d) are the "periodic departures from expected sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the equatorial Pacific Ocean" that causes some of the natural disasters that we live actually, like droughts and floods. Also, is the main cause of the increment of the temperature during the last months of the years. This one have different effects depending of the zone where you live. 

•    THE EFFECTS IN AMERICA:

The purpose of talking about the United States in this section is to get informed about the consequences that this phenomenon can bring to a developed country like this one. To begin with, United States is one of the biggest countries in the world and for this topic (ENSO) this is considered as a negative aspect because these countries suffered and suffer both of the effects that ENSO bring. This can be evidenced in for example: The State of California had been passing by a drought that generated the reduction of the vegetation and the water level of the river and reservoirs fell.

•    THE EFFECTS IN ASIA:

As we saw how the ENSO can affect to a powerful country like United States, is time to see the situation of the other part of the world and know to what extent ENSO can perjudicate to Australia. Actually, Australia is characterized as a desert country but one of the effects of ENSO is the reduction of temperature in the country. This can be evidenced in order that during this time, the weather in Australia gets colder than the average one (and this had been passing some years ago). Even, the web born.gov.au (n.d) affirms that: "Australia's lowest recorded temperature, –23.0 °C, was observed at Charlotte Pass on 29 June 1994, during the 1994–95 El Niño event."

In conclusion, ENSO is a phenomenon that generate the increment of the average temperature worldwide as long as pass the time. Also, the ENSO's effects won't be the same depending of the place where you are. For example; if you are in an American country like USA, the ENSO's effect will be the increment of droughts in the country, and if you are in Australia (Asia) the effect will be the opposite one (reduction of the temperature).

• SOURCES:

1. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). (n.d). Recorred from http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/ 
2. Halpern, M. (June 12, 2014). United States El Niño Impacts. [Message from a blog]. Recovered from https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/united-states-el-niño-impacts-0 
3. Impacts. (n.d). Recovered from http://ca.water.usgs.gov/data/drought/drought-impact.html 
4. ENSO impacts - temperature. (n.d). Recovered from http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/history/ln-2010-12/ENSO-temperature.shtml 
5. What is El Niño and what might it mean for Australia?. (n.d). Recovered from http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a008-el-nino-and-australia.shtml  

A lot or no one? Third Culture Kids.

What is a Third Culture Kid? For Vyhmeister (2015) in his conference in TEDx named: "Building Identity as a Third Culture Kid", is: "Someone who has spent a significant portion of their developmental years living in a culture other than their parents' culture". The origin of a Third Culture Kid can be attributed to economical, educational or social necessities of the parents, and those facts will be a long-term cause that their son/daughter become a Third Culture Kid. In order of this definition and example, I want to explain some of the advantages and disadvantages that has to be a Third Culture Kid.

• ADVANTAGES:

To begin with, based in the same source of the last paragraph, some of the advantages that has to be a Third Culture Kid is that you have a big empathy (you have the capacity to know when someone needs you or something from you) and be "experienced at saying goodbye", this mean that they don't have a big link between each place where they lived and there's no a bad feeling of leaving it, even, to the extent of be easy for them. Focusing in their knowledge, they have the special ability to compare international and local issues in order that they also have a deep understanding of human rights.

• DISADVANTAGES:

On the other hand, some of the disadvantages that have been part of this community is that (to a certain extent) they lose a connection with their identity and there will be a moment in their life that they will ask themselves: Where am I from? And they won't be able to answer, because they have been part of lots of cultures (multicultural - grow in lots of cities or countries). Focusing in the social aspect, they actually have a certain obligation of don't have lots of relationships with the people around them, thus happen in order that they will leave them and they don't want to have a bad feeling.

In conclusion, it's important to mention that actually, any advantage or disadvantage can be considered as reliable because all depends on the Third Culture Kid. This happen in order that they could consider some aspects as positive or negative. For example, as the website tckid.com explains, you can be identified as a Third Culture Kid when: "You get homesick reading National Geographic." This example helps to affirm that all depends of the Third Culture Kid to the extent that how they fell about their changes.

[Third Culture Kids] Recovered from http://stumbleabroad.net/2012/05/24/ni-de-aqui-ni-de-alla-los-ninos-de-la-tercera-cultura-relaciones-locales-almas-globales/ 

SOURCES:

1. TEDx Talks. (May 26, 2015). Building Identity as a Third Culture Kid | Erik Vyhmeister | TEDxAndrewsUniversity [Video's file] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RCmgMKJRy8 
2. Saa'd AlDin, K., Abu-Awad, J., Tempakka, T., Morley, K. (2012). ENGLISH B. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. KAREENELLIEGITANJALIMANA. (April 19, 2013). Advantages and Disadvantages of a TCK [Message in a blog] Recovered from https://thirdculturekidsoftheworld.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-a-tck/  
4. "What is a Third Culture Kid?". (n.d). Recovered from http://tckid.com/what-is-a-tck.html