about me
“Where do you come from?” – is a common question I get to hear, after I introduce myself.
Depending on my mood, I can make the answere rather complicated.
Usually the question refers to my “ethnic” background, as I look very asian, naturally for somebody who has two chinese-indonese parents and although that is my heritage – I was a stubborn child – I do not speak bahasa indonesia and have only loose ties to indonesia – what I regret – and despite the fact that most of my relatives live in indonesia. And as already mentioned, we are not indonesian, we are chinese-indonesian. Something that wouldn’t matter much here, something that doesn’t matter much to me, but something that seems to matter overthere, for whatever reasons.
So what is my nationality? – It’s dutch but my dutch has become pretty bad, since I already live again 17 years in germany. Again ? Yes again. I lived about 4 years in netherland, where I grew up part of my youth but not all. I used to live in germany before that as well.
So I’m neither real dutch nor am I german, nor am I an indonesian nor chinese-indonesian.
So where do I come from?
Now, living in bavaria I answere this with “from lower saxony”, from where my parents still live.
Home is to me, where my family is, where my friends are, where my bed is and that’s where I come from 
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p.s.
I was born in Belgium, my parents studied there 
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