Tell Us Your Fusion Story - Open Invitation to be a Guest Blogger

Photo: Tell us Your Story - from flickr.com, by linda manymuses

On Fusion View, I have been writing stories about my experiences of being from the East and living in the West - take a look in the Category “Fusion Stories” in the sidebar on the far right. Talking to my friends and wider family, I realised that I know many people who live “fusion lives”, or cross-cultural lives - or who travel widely around the world and are interested in cross-cultural living. One friend is a German who has studied in San Francisco and is now an English-qualified lawyer in the UK - he is married to a Greek art expert who travels regularly round the globe. Another friend taught English in Hong Kong and then cycled across China and Europe home to Somerset in the UK. Through this blog, I have also met many cross-cultural bloggers such as Sharon Bakar, a Brit who has made Malaysia her home.

So I thought: Wouldn’t it be great to hear more “fusion stories” from around the world?

I am issuing an Open Invitation to all my readers - and anyone who happens upon this blog by chance - to write a post for Fusion View about any cross-cultural aspects in your life. I would love to build this blog into a community blog or forum and I hope that you will take part and share your stories.

I would love to hear your story if your family or you have migrated from East to West or West to East - or in fact, any place that is culturally different from your country of origin (so South Africa to Germany counts as would New York to Toulouse etc).

What is your experience of moving your life across the world? What have you loved about your new life? What helped to get you through the tough times?

Or maybe you are living and working in the medium- to long- term in another country. What cultural curiosities have you noticed?

The questions I’ve mentioned are meant just to start you off and are not specific requirements. The content of your blog post is up to you - but your post must be relevant to
the topic I’ve described and in keeping with the aims of Fusion View, which is to celebrate fusion lives and diversity.

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Our first fusion story by a guest blogger will be posted on Thursday 22 June 2006 after 08.30am so come by then and check it out.

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Your fusion story should be no more than 1000 words. Please read my Guest Blogging Submission Guidelines here - or see the Announcements section of the sidebar on the near right.

You can submit your posts anytime starting now. If I like them and they are suitable, they will be posted onto Fusion View as soon I have approved them. This Open Invitation will close by midnight on 31 August 2006.

You can submit your fusion story to me by using the form below.