Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

Bridget elsewhere

I've showed up in a few different places recently.

I had a guest post at Poetry Sans Onions - it was a reprint of my American Mormon post from a few months back. Thanks for having me on your blog, Julia!

I had my very first academic publication come out at the very end of November. It was a book review that appeared in TESOL Arabia's Perspectives journal. Even though it's "just" a book review, I'm pretty thrilled. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to obtain a copy of the issue or even a picture of a copy of an issue (I left my camera at home, then the scanner wasn't working, then I had to give back the copy I borrowed, etc.). Just take my word for it that it's the best book review EVER.

Finally, I was involved in two PR pieces produced by the American University of Sharjah last semester (that's the fun of being a minority here). The first one has yet to see the light of day, but the second one appeared last week. You can find it here (it's a video). A few notes:

1. Yes, it says Bridget Plamer. But the fact that the "typo" is perpetuated in a few places makes me think that they think that's actually my name. The interesting thing is that when Jeremy got his AUS business cards two years ago, they misspelled Palmer the exact same way. Huh.

2. Uh, they told me they would edit it more. We did several takes and I knew I had some weird hesitations in there but I thought they would cobble together a best version. I guess not.

3. HOWEVER: I am so glad they cut out one part. At the end of each take, they had me look at the camera and say something like "Welcome to AUS - see you around!" The impression I got was that they would then do a supercut of each interviewee saying the same thing. I haven't yet seen that supercut but I kind of hope it never comes into existence.

4. I love love love that there is an Awkward Kristin moment going on in the background of my interview at the very beginning. Because yeah, we were filming in a computer lab and there were tons of people there just trying to mind their own business when me and a camera crew barged in.

December 7th, outsourced

UAE 41st National Day