Expat Rewind

Hi everyone. Here is a brief summary of what we are planning for Expat Rewind Podcast for this year.  We would really appreciate it if you would take this quick 2 minute Listener Survey. We have launched a Facebook Group for this and all of our other podcasts, called “Steph PodTubes” cause, well, we have 3 podcasts with accompanying YouTube channels. 2019 Tentative Schedule Tentative 2019 Schedule:  Jan & Feb: Steph’s Me In Taiwan 2003/2004 blog reading and reflections; prerecoded from 2017/2018 Mar, Apr & May : Steph’s Me In Taiwan 2003/2004 blog reading and reflections via live stream OR Shanghai, China walkabouts in conjunction with the Expat Rewind YouTube channel June : 4 episode guest interview season based geographically on African countries July/Aug: Steph’s Me In Taiwan 2003/2004 blog reading and reflections via live stream OR Shanghai, China walkabouts in conjunction with the Expat Rewind YouTube channel Fall: 4 episode guest interview season based geographically on Latin America OR the Middle East (tbd).  Exact month of publication tbd. Winter:Steph’s Me In Taiwan 2003/2004 blog reading and reflections via live stream OR Shanghai, China walkabouts in conjunction with the Expat Rewind YouTube channel Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube  & Speakpipe (to leave a voice message) Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe to Expat Rewind Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS  & YouTube OR join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Link: Use these links to support the podcast: Amazon  & Traveling Mailbox Be a guest on Expat Rewind Podcast (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any artifact from your 1st year in a country). Details here: More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

In this episode I read and reflect on the middle of my first year teaching English in Asia in 2004. This blog reading covers three short blog entries about teaching English to children in a foreign culture while not being comfortable with teaching OR the local culture yet. In a word: vulnerability is the name of the game for this point in my first year in Taiwan. This same exposed state rang true for me when this episode was recorded in August 2017 but for different reasons. In 2004 I was writing the Me In Taiwan blog but in 2017 I was publishing the Changing Scripts Mandarin Chinese language learning YouTube videos about my learning process and progress. A lot changed in digital protection form one project to the next and that is where a lot of the reflection in this episode pitches its tent. Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube  & Speakpipe (to leave a voice message) Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe to Expat Rewind Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS  & YouTube OR join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Link: Use these links to support the podcast: Amazon  & Traveling Mailbox Be a guest on Expat Rewind Podcast (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any artifact from your 1st year in a country). Details here: More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

This week we expat chat with first time expat, Miicher, a Florida, US native who decided it was time for a change. Miicher is a teacher, an actor, a mom and a natural storyteller, which explains why her Facebook China Chronicles , where she has been sharing her experiences in Shanghai, China, have become such a hit. Usually in Expat Rewind we chat with expats after their first year but we thought it would be fun to do a preview episode with Miicher during her first year and then reflect back on this episode after she reaches that milestone. She arrived in Shanghai in August 2018 so look out for the second part of this interview in August 2019. Show links: -Baopals, the English language website/app for Taobao (China’s Amazon but honestly, it’s so much bigger than Amazon) -Chinese bags, often seen on the metro, especially during Spring Festival (called Chinese New Year in other parts of the world) -Replica towns in China -Meetup.com Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast:Subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS OR join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Would love to hear from you! Socials: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Support the podcast: Amazon Affiliate Link and Traveling Mailbox Affiliate Link Be a guest: Share your blog, Twitter/Instagram/Facebook feed, or any other artifact from your 1st year in a new country Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album Check out all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/

In this episode I read and reflect on the middle of my first year teaching English in Asia in 2004. I was so willing to learn, excited to understand the process and methods and open to learning from my co-workers. Fast forward to the 2017 reflection segment and it is clear that teacher burn has set in and was not really going away anytime soon. Note: It is now December 2018 and I am still not teaching.    Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube  & Speakpipe (to leave a voice message) Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe to Expat Rewind Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS  & YouTube OR join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Link: Use these links to support the podcast: Amazon  & Traveling Mailbox Be a guest on Expat Rewind Podcast (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any artifact from your 1st year in a country). Details here: More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

  In this episode I share the safety games I used to play in Taiwan, blog writing burnout, and some music that made me feel less isolated in my first long term overseas experience. This blog reading and reflection is from a 2003/2004 expat blog I wrote called Me in Taiwan. The specific entry is from February 16, 2004, which was written just after a vacation I had in Taitung, Taiwan: the other side of the Pacific Ocean from where I lived in the U.S., California. Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube  & Speakpipe (to leave a voice message) Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe to Expat Rewind Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS  & YouTube OR join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Link: Use these links to support the podcast: Amazon  & Traveling Mailbox Be a guest on Expat Rewind Podcast (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any artifact from your 1st year in a country). Details here: More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

  This week we expat chat with Hannah Lund, who is magnetic, funny and thinky. Her geographic trajectory includes her home state of Minnesota and a quiet town in Iowa in the U.S., Paris, France and Hangzhou, China. In 2012 it was a mystical story involving a character called Madame White Snake, set in Hangzhou, which was the inspiration for this move to China but Hannah soon found out there were so many more unexpected surprises that would come from this experience. After 6 years in Hangzhou she moved up to Shanghai, which seemed like an apt time to look back at that first year in China in this podcast episode. She uses her short story, “In Search of White Snake”, from the May 2018 edition of Concrete, The Shanghai Literary Review’s revered publication. After Hannah’s animated reading of this piece we chat about many of the expat issues that it brings to the surface (every pun intended), such as her “sense of urgency” to make things happen, facing the differences between the China in her mind and the one in front of her, and a general fascination with ghost stories (how is that expat related? You will need to listen to find out!) We are so pleased to have Hannah in Shanghai now and I am sure you will be thrilled to have her story and wisdom in your ears for this episode. Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS , YouTube channel and you can join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Amazon Affiliate Link and Traveling Mailbox Affiliate Link Show Links: (available here: https://expatrewind.podbean.com/e/ep-51-guest-hannah-lund-from-the-us-to-hangzhou-china/) -Shanghai Literary Review and Concrete Magazine (one of their publications), where Hannah’s story was published earlier this year -Hannah’s article on Chinese ghost stories in Sixth Tone -An interview with another lovely Sixth Tone person, Lucy, on my Changing Scripts Podcast, episode 7 -Xing’s Expat Rewind Podcast, episode 27, the 1st interview for this podcast AND Xing’s writing website -Atlas Obscura : THE website for quirky travel locations (Hannah wrote some China articles for them) -Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Songling Pu (especially The Painted Skin story) -Elizabeth Gilbert’s TEDTalk, “Your Elusive Creative Genius” -Japanese spirits, Yokai. Here is the book I used with my students, “Yokai Attack” Be a guest: Share your blog, Twitter/Instagram/Facebook feed, or any other artifact from your 1st year in a new country Would love to hear from you! Socials: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Check out all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

  In this episode I read from a Me in Taiwan blog post I wrote on February 14, 2004 from Tainan, Taiwan and react to it so many years later on July 29, 2017 from Shanghai, China. This is a very hungry episode: at 3 months into my expat experience in Taiwan I was hungry for food and knowledge. On the food side it was coffee and sweet potatoes, which are things I still seek out while living in Shanghai. I was also hungry for language knowledge. Something that started to intrigue me then as a new TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher and still does today is how time is conveyed in Mandarin Chinese. I have even more answers today than in this 2017 episode, thanks to a few of the guests on my Mandarin Chinese podcast, Changing Scripts (check out both Jeremy Tiang’s this season and look out for Tanya’s episode in the next season for some helpful insights into this). Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube  & Speakpipe (to leave a voice message) Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe to Expat Rewind Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS  & YouTube OR join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Link: Use these links to support the podcast: Amazon  & Traveling Mailbox Be a guest on Expat Rewind Podcast (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any artifact from your 1st year in a country). Details here: More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

  Originally from the UK, Karl discusses how he found himself in Denmark, the experiences of his first year and how music helped him to feel at home in his adopted country. He chose The National’s “Trouble Will Find Me” album from 2013 as a jumping off point to discuss the ups and downs of his transition into expat life in Denmark. In the interview Karl briefly mentions his current studies and internship at Sleeknote,which “helps small e-commerce shops and big online retails engage website visitors—without hurting the user experience” and he wanted to share this Sleeknote scholarship with all of you. Thank you for spreading the word about this wonderful opportunity. Support the podcast: Amazon Affiliate Link and Traveling Mailbox Affiliate Link Links to lovely items mentioned in this episode: -The National website, https://americanmary.com/ -"Trouble Will Find Me" album cover -Two music podcasts: New York Times Popcast and Slate’s Hit Parade -Cueing culture: UK -Janteloven, Danish societal concept of everyone being equal -Kim Larsen, deceased iconic Danish rock star -The National’s kind of tour documentary, with a brotherly tilt: "Mistaken for Strangers" -Expat Cast Podcast, Nicole has an entire episode recently on the documents needed to work legally in Germany as an expat -Blind Boy Podcast -Tangentially Speaking Podcast Click here  to tell us what you think of this episode. Be a guest: Share your blog, Twitter/Instagram/Facebook feed, or any other artifact from your 1st year in a new country Would love to hear from you! Socials: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Check out all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS OR j oin our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

In this episode I read from a Me in Taiwan blog post I wrote on January 29, 2004 from Tainan, Taiwan and react to it so many years later on July 24, 2017 from where I was living in Shanghai, China. How to keep the creative fire going while teaching is a strong theme in this blog entry. My 2004 Taiwan self was reacting to the loss of creativity in my non-work time. My 2017 Shanghai self noticed that blog entry grumpiness was just me throwing a temper tantrum at my creativity going into teaching, instead of into my writing. It is amazing what you can realize with time, space and patience. I also ponder what to do after my current non-teaching job: do I teach again in the future and run the risk of losing my creative fire to the classroom again? Would love to hear from you! Click here  to leave us a voice message. Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast: Subscribe to Expat Rewind Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS OR join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Link: Use these links to support the podcast. Amazon  & Traveling Mailbox You can now listen to Expat Rewind on YouTube as well! Be a guest reader (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any other online project)  on this podcast. Details here: https://youtu.be/pzDXICqJZMY More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

Expat Rewind Podcast’s  website & YouTube Channel Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Links: shop normally with these sites and you will be supporting the podcast at the same time: Amazon & Traveling Mailbox Be a guest share your blog, Twitter/Instagram/Facebook feed, or any other artifact from your  1st year in a new country.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pia and her family just recently left Shanghai, China after living here for two years. I have met some active expats in my life but Pia takes the cake on really living life the fullest. She explored China, worked and volunteered locally, all while raising two intelligent and worldly daughters. How did moving to the U.S. a few years ago help her to make this transition to living in China? Come have a listen to the answer to that question and more as we explore a blog of hers from this time period.   In this episode: -Blo Pia’s blog entry in Finnish -Finnish to English translation questions -Blog in English -Reflection via Interview format Click here  to tell us what you think of this episode. Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS Join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Socials:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Check out all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album

  Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Link: Use these links to support the podcast. Amazon  & Traveling Mailbox Click here  to tell us what you think of this episode  You can now listen to Expat Rewind on YouTube as well! In this episode: -Expat Tip: Alexandra Talty’s Forbes article, “The 12 Things Every Expat Needs To Do Before Moving Abroad” -Expat Rewind Season Preview: a blog post in Finnish (and English), our first music episode, an article about China and a surprise in the season’s last episode! -Listener Feedback: Alison from episode 43 & Karl from a future episode in season 2 -Steph’s Me In Taiwan Blog reading from January 28, 2004 in Tainan, Taiwan and reflection from July 8, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Be a guest reader (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any other online project)  on this podcast. Details here: https://youtu.be/pzDXICqJZMY Expat Rewind Podcast website More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album.

Expat Rewind Podcast website  Expat Rewind’s Affiliate Links: shop normally with these sites and you will be supporting the podcast at the same time! Amazon & Traveling Mailbox  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many of us are promised things growing up in a certain culture and often those promises are never actualized. Jennifer is an American who had been to over 70 countries before moving to China to teach at an international school but that did not stop this home country disappointment from kicking in. In this episode she reads a poem that she wrote a bit after her first year in China to her father about these cultural promises. And as we often do in Expat Rewind, we spend quite a while unpacking what this poem and the frustration in it means to her now, what has changed since she wrote it and so much more. Click here  to tell us what you think of this episode. Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS OR  Join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Be a guest (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any other online project)  on this podcast.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Check out all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/

Expat Rewind Podcast website Click here  to tell us what you think of this episode. Expat Rewind’s Amazon Affiliate Link (support the podcast by shopping normally BUT while using this link!) Be a guest reader (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any other online project)  on this podcast. Details here: https://youtu.be/pzDXICqJZMY More about Expat Rewind and its' creator: http://expatrewind.podbean.com/p/about-1526533799/ All of my projects: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Music courtesty of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album.  

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Ex-chef and perpetual expat Alison takes us through her Instagram feed from her first year in Thailand: freedom, an explosion of her senses and moments of cultural pause. Click here  to tell us what you think of this episode. Alison’s Instagram  and personal blog. Expat Rewind’s Amazon & Traveling Mailboxes affiliate links (bottom of page) WeAreXats rocur Twitter account 12:00 view of rooftop pool at condo in Thonglor pool photo 16:30 Sukhumvit Road yellow-shirt protesters in front of her condo  protest 24:35  visa run to Phoi Phet on the Cambodian border 28:00  her first Songkran outside of Tacos & Salsa restaurant with girlfriend Stacy and friends Bo & Lisathai 32:44  little girl working with a parent outside of Don Meuang airport in Jang Wattana 36:58 Sai Krok Issan Street stall Northeastern sausages in Nakhon Phanom about 2.8 cents per ball 41:00 cucumber kimchi recipe : http://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/250130/quick-cucumber-kimchi/ 43:00  driving a motorbike onto the Lam Prathab beach near Khanom 46:00 Long Way Round & Long Way Down Documentaries: https://www.longwayround.com/ 1:19:00 America The Ex-Boyfriend article (correction: it is country, not city) Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, Song "Rocket of Love" on the "Mess of Me" album. Be a guest (blog, twitter feed, Instagram feed, or any other online project)  on this podcast. More about Stephanie and all her projects