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How to Find Freedom in a Daily Blogging Practice

This post is by Tory Paez, a member of our Blogging Abroad community who is currently serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer with her partner in Costa Rica.  Prior to Peace Corps, I never actively wrote about or reflected on my experiences abroad. I flew, drove, bused, boated, and walked -- documenting through Facebook, Instagram, letters and emails to loved ones, and the occasional random journal entry. My memories of trips are scattered, with only the most unforgettable moments imprinted in my mind. But as my partner, Dan, and I prepared to enter into the Peace Corps, we knew we wanted to have a collected history of our experience. We also knew we wanted to share our daily triumphs and failures with our family and friends back home. We scoured the internet for inspiration and advice on how best to maintain a blog for two years, given obvious challenges like management of workload, lack of consistent access to wi-fi, and simply not “needing it” anymore. We decided to keep our blogging process simple: one post a day. We selected the Tumblr platform and created the guidelines listed below. Tory working with Costa Rican women Guidelines for Daily Blogging Share any type of media: We tell stories through words, photos, videos, links, songs, quotes -- anything to fully and accurately capture our experience. We select each daily post with a single purpose: depict something about today. It can be sentimental, upsetting, silly -- anything, really. Anything. Write as little or as much as you want: We don’t...

04 July, 2016 / 0 Comments
Blogging Abroad Photo Challenge Round Up for June: #Home Away From Home
June’s Photo Challenge Highlights: #Home
Welcome to our third monthly Photo Challenge round up! This month has been all about everyone's Home Away From Home. Photo challenge participants get 10 prompts by e-mail and share their best photo responses on their favorite social media account. The goal is to share captivating images online, with meaningful captions, in order to promote cross-cultural understanding in a fun, simple way. We hope many more will join in to share the stories of their host countries by either using ten of our previous prompts, or signing up to get a fresh set of prompts on the 1st of each month.

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28 June, 2016 / 0 Comments
Why Blogging Abroad Is Meaningful Work - Guest post by Peace Corps Volunteer | BloggingAbroad.org
Why Blogging Abroad Is Meaningful Work

Bridging cultures As countries around the world seek to advance and connect, Peace Corps has long been an organization at the forefront of both development and cross-cultural connection. This is evident in the three goals of Peace Corps: To help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained Volunteers. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. Peace Corps Volunteers of the 21st century have access to technology that their predecessors never dreamed of. But with the power of access comes great responsibility: the Peace Corps Blog was born. Volunteer bloggers Volunteers often start blogging strong. Their excitement fuels updates, committing cultural faux pas provide easy and hilarious content, and everything seems so new…for a while. Then an incredible transition happens. Through integration, gaining cultural understanding, and the simple passing of time, a PCV’s host country becomes a little more like home. Volunteers might say later that this is when they really started to feel like they hit their stride, but it is also often where their blogging faded away. It doesn’t have to be though. Why it's worth it Keeping a Peace Corps Blog can be meaningful and worthwhile work. Even if it hasn’t been updated in what you feel is too long, here are six reasons to find some Internet, get yourself a cup of tea (or mate, or kava, or airag, or…) , and give blogging another go: Peace Corps’ 3rd Goal: “to...

12 June, 2016 / 0 Comments
May’s Photo Challenge Highlights: #People
This is the second month of our monthly Photo Challenge. Participants get 10 prompts by e-mail and share their best photo responses on their favorite social media account. The goal is to share captivating images with meaningful captions in order to promote cross-cultural understanding in a fun, simple way. Today we've rounded up some highlights from our first challenge. We hope many more will share the stories of their host countries by either using ten of our previous prompts, or signing up to get a fresh set of prompts on the 1st of each month.

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29 May, 2016 / 0 Comments
April’s Photo Challenge Highlights: #OutAndAbout

On April 1, we launched the first of our monthly Photo Challenge. Participants get 10 prompts by e-mail and share their best photo responses on their favorite social media account. The goal is to share captivating images with meaningful captions in order to promote cross-cultural understanding in a fun, simple way. Today we've rounded up some highlights from our first challenge. We hope many more will share the stories of their host countries by either using these ten #OutAndAbout prompts, or signing up to get a fresh set of prompts on the 1st of each month. [button size='large' style='' text='Join our monthly Photo Challenge!' icon='' icon_color='' link='https://www.bloggingabroad.org/photo-challenge/sign-up/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='center' margin=''] Note: If you are viewing this post by e-mail or feed reader, please click here to see the full post properly formatted. #Adventure [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] The second you jump in the back of a 'sarety' or wooden ox cart, you know you're in for an #adventure. Never underestimate the stamina of 'añòmbe' or cow - they will pull you deep into the heart of the countryside. -- Reposting for @bloggingabroad #BAphotochallenge #Madagascar #Androy @peacecorps #howiseepc #traveldeeper A photo posted by liv (@olivepretzel) on Apr 6, 2016 at 6:13am PDT [/vc_column][vc_column width='1/2'] [/vc_column][/vc_row] #Weather [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] I brought this thermometer from America a year and a half ago. Either it's broken, or the temperature is always 90 degrees. I don't think it's broken. #weather #BAphotochallenge A photo posted by Ashlyn Anderson (@ashlyn_renae14) on Apr 16, 2016 at 5:07pm PDT [/vc_column][vc_column width='1/2'] You could hear the whistling and cheering across town, harmonious...

25 April, 2016 / 0 Comments
Meet Blogging Abroad’s Volunteer Team!

As Blogging Abroad continues to reach more bloggers with our online programs and tools, our community has grown and so have the needs. We feel extremely blessed to connect with some incredibly talented and dedicated people around the world who have offered to lend a hand with our projects. Today we're excited to introduce you to a few of the new members in our global volunteer team! It's an honor to have these folks on board. Christine Bedenis Christine is an Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Thailand '13-'15) who loves hiking and backpacking, traveling, and learning. As a former Peace Corps Blog It Home winner, she contributes her expertise to Blogging Abroad as an advisor and guest writer. Christine's Blog: https://christinebedenis.wordpress.com/ Hometown: Detroit, Michigan. Currently: Ghana Instagram and Twitter: @noon_thirty   Cat Richardson Cat is in her last year as a Community & Organizational Development Volunteer with the Peace Corps in Moldova. She loves "reading with a big cup of coffee, documenting my entire life in journals, and loving everyone I know as fiercely as possible."  Cat has been getting in touch with other Peace Corps bloggers to spread the word about Blogging Abroad. Cat's Blog: http://winingwhining.blogspot.com/ Hometown: Colonial Heights, Virginia Currently: Moldova Instagram: @cattackkk Samantha Wisneski Sam is a soon-to-be Peace Corps Trainee, assigned to Secondary Education English in Mongolia. She loves contemporary art and art history, nature and outdoor recreation, and is passionate about food systems and the environment. Sam has helped us craft a social media strategy and bring more life to Blogging Abroad's community on Instagram. Sam's Blog: http://minnesotatomongolia.com/ Hometown: South St. Paul, Minnesota Departing for: Mongolia, May 27 Instagram: @minnesnomad Snapchat: sjwizx Elizabeth Erickson Elizabeth is...

11 April, 2016 / 0 Comments
How To Keep Your Culture Blog Alive With These 3 Questions | Blogging Abroad
Keep Your Blog Alive With These 3 Questions

You’ve done it. You’ve made that big move across oceans and continents and you want to tell everyone about it. You like writing and want to share it with the world, so you’ve started a blog. At first, it all came so easily, tales of cross-cultural bumbles and the sensory overload of a trip to the local market. But now, it’s getting harder to find something that interests you or feels worthy of putting up on a blog. Posts get more and more infrequent, until the next thing you know, the date for your flight home is tomorrow and you realize that your readers might not even know it. You dash off a final post that sums up several months of experiences and end up leaving many stories untold. Blogging abroad doesn’t have to be that way. With some planning and foresight plus committing to prioritizing blogging, you can keep inspiration sparking throughout your time abroad. If you are feeling like your blog has stagnated, or you are getting ready to start a blog and want to avoid the fate described above, ask yourself these questions about your platform to take your blog to the next level. What am I trying to say? Are you trying to take a broad and encompassing view of the country you live in or are you trying to share the small stories from your community and network? Are you trying to spin a yarn that could put New Yorker narratives to shame, or are you doing fact-based reporting? Are you...

28 March, 2016 / 1 Comment
Monthly Photo Challenge to promote cross-cultural understanding on any social media platform
New Monthly Photo Challenge to Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding

Do you have an Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook account? Have you ever considered the impact you could make by being more intentional on social media? Blogging is not the only way to help people back home learn about your host culture. Digital story-telling and cross-cultural education can be just as effective when done well on social media. That's why we're launching a monthly Photo Challenge. To take part in the Photo Challenge, just sign up and you'll get themed photo prompts on the first of every month. You can participate for any length of time - from one month up to a full year. You'll get 10 one-word prompts in the e-mail, all related to an over-arching theme. (For example: if the theme is "Out and About" and the first prompt is "Light," you could share a photo of anything from a cool lamp post on your street to your favorite sunrise shot.) You have a month to publish your ten photo responses in the order that they're listed, on the social media platform of your choice. Tag us at @bloggingabroad and use the hashtag #BAphotochallenge. Be sure to give context with a nice caption for each post, too. We'll re-share the best images! For those of you who are also blogging, we challenge you to get all of your photos up in the first half of the month, then use the second half of the month to compile them all together in a cohesive blog post. Learn more on our Photo Challenge page, and sign up by March 30 to...

23 March, 2016 / 0 Comments
Free Blog Post Checklist for Culture Bloggers Blogging Abroad
Free Blog Post Checklist

Would you like to become a better blogger? Do you want to make a bigger impact on your readers? Honing your blog skills is an ongoing process. And if one of the goals for your blog is to help promote cross-cultural understanding, then you have an extra responsibility to be intentional and sensitive with your blog content. Our aim at Blogging Abroad is to inspire and equip you to be the best culture blogger you can be. Whether you need help coming up with creative ideas for blog posts, learning to blog more consistently, optimizing the readability of your site, or sharing the not-so-great experiences in a positive way, we have tools and resources to help. If you want something super simple to up your game with every blog post, we're making our Blog Post Checklist download available to you for free. This is a super easy way to refine your content before hitting publish. Just go through the one-page list, and you're good to go. Download your free Blog Post Checklist below:...

09 March, 2016 / 0 Comments
New Normal | Boot Camp Blog Challenge Round Up | Blogging Abroad
Blog Challenge Responses Round-Up #12
We have officially come to the end of our first Blog Challenge here at Blogging Abroad. We ended up with 147 bloggers enrolled who each had varying degrees of participation in the Challenge. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and it has truly been a joy to learn about everyone's experiences through coordination of this project.

Phase Two of the Blog Challenge: Join the fun!

Feedback from our bloggers has been overwhelmingly positive and constructive, so we've decided to extend the opportunity to participate in our Challenge by creating a start-anytime version. By signing up for the Blog Challenge now, you'll get a weekly e-mail with a prompt. Then you can share your blog responses in the comment section of these Round Up posts so more people will see them. If you're interested in participating, sign up via our Blog Challenge page to get started.

The Prompt

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Highlights

  There are so many other great cultural adaptation accomplishments in these blog posts! We encourage you to check out the links below and on our Boot Camp Blog Challenge pinterest board.

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15 February, 2016 / 0 Comments
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