Ted, Ted, Ted

Every country in the world, I think, has at least one school for the children of foreign diplomats, missionaries and business people. There are three kinds: there are schools run by and for missionaries, usually named something like Central American Christian Academy and characterized by a high degree of religious fervor. There are independent secular [...]

We kids got used to being scrutinized very closely, our blue eyes and blond hair as unfamiliar as tails or fur. Women, especially, would swoon over our pigmentation. Some would offer wistfully to trade their dark eyes for our blue ones, which disturbed me a little, until I learned to joke along with them. In [...]