As you may or may not know, I'm going to be traveling quite a bit in Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, etc. while being based mainly in China and Japan. While I'm away, I was planning on blogging much more frequently on World is Round than I ordinarily do, mainly about my travels, and even though I'm sure I'll have lovely stories and pictures to report back with, blogging can sometimes be a lonely venture.
I started thinking about co-authoring a blog with other friends who are living outside the States and would want to write about where they are for audiences back home.
I am hoping to get about 5-10 people living in diverse places who would write about the art, politics, food, culture, etc. of the environments in which they live not necessarily because they would purport to be experts, but because this kind of writing offers an interesting opportunity to explore themes of displacement as people learn about new cultures and reevaluate their own.
So if you're reading this, and you're interested, or have any ideas how I might going about finding people who like to blog, who write well and who have interesting perspectives, please read on, email me (worldisroundblog@gmail.com) or leave a comment. I'm looking for easy-going people of any age, gender, race, nationality or creed. The only requirements really are that you like to blog and are living outside your ordinary environment. (So Egyptians in Buenos Aires, New Yorkers in Cairo, Nigerians in Beijing, French in Lousiana are all welcome.)
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