Online: Kelly Merks Of The Bullet Trains & Bike Lane Blog On Desiring Mundanity Online
Geopats: conversations with expats
English - May 14, 2019 17:33 - 1 hour - 64 MBLanguage Learning Education Society & Culture Places & Travel expat geopat live abroad go abroad live overseas Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this podcast episode we chat with Kelly Merks, a Texas expat who has lived abroad since 2011, in Japan and in the Netherlands. Her Twitter bio tells is: โA Texan full of fernweh (NOTE: โfernweh is a German word that means โ A Farsickness or Longing for Unseen Places.). Noob knitter and clay thrower. Fairy godmother of @WeAreXpats, a project of @xpatarchive: http://wearexpats.org โ
โโ@WeAreXpats is how Kelly and I first met online and connected over discussions of place, social medianess and expat life. For those of you not familiar with rocur accounts, they are rotating accounts where usually 1 person in that category (in this case, an expat) tweets for a week and then the account will rotate to another person after that. Kelly started this rocur account while she was a volunteer at the Expatriate Archive Center in The Hauge where she now is their Public Relations Manager. Outside of the EAC, Kelly also is raising a tiny human with her husband and somehow finds time to write about her geographic pondering in her blog, Bullet Trains & Bike Lanes.
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