An Introduction

Where are you from? What do you consider yourself? Where do you call home? These are all questions that most people can answer in one word. I honestly can't. If I had to describe myself in one word it would be mixed-up. Not in a bad way. Although that word almost always has a negative connotation, I've actually come to accept and even embrace not knowing exactly where I belong.
As a Portuguese-Cape Verdean born in Singapore and raised in Dubai, I never really stood a chance at being normal. No one had even heard of the Cape Verde Islands! Then I broke out of my little bubble and moved to London. There I realised that the people I relate to most aren't the people that come from where I come from but those that share my values and understand my obsessions with film, food and fashion. Ten years later, I'm back in living in Dubai and though I often find myself doing a little mime to describe where the Islands are, what used to be a chore now makes me feel good in that I'm sharing a bit of my 'mixed-up' culture and hopefully getting someone to share a bit of theirs.

An Introduction