American Expat in the Netherlands: 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 - 64.2 MBPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Arts Visual Arts 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: “A Texan full of fernweh (NOTE: “fernweh is a German word that means “ A Farsickness or Longing for Unseen Places.). Noob knitter and clay thrower. Fairy godmother of @WeAreXpats, a project of @xpatarchive: http://wearexpats.org “
@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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