Your Path to Indonesia and being an Expat

[JMPLevy]

My name is Jackie and I am doing a research for a documentary.

I am interested deeply in the life of expats and how they ended up where they did.

I was hoping some of you could shed some light into your experiences and answer the following questions.

1. What is your name, age and occupation?
2. Why are you in Indonesia?
3. What changes have you made since you arrived (career, habits, interests, identity)
4. What type of people have you met while being abroad?
5. What was home like and how are you different from the person you were then to who you are now?
6. What is your favourite thing in Indonesia?
7. What is the city you live in and how is it culturally different from where you are born.
8. What is the craziest experience you have had. (with a local, an expat or on your own)

If you could answer these questions and send it back to my email
[email protected]

it would be really useful. Thanks is advance.

Jackie

[drbruce]

Jackie,

Have you looked around at all on this or other forums? Have you participated in any of them. Personally, I'm fairly open about my life here, but I'd be hesitant with answers to some of these questions like what is your name, age, and occupation. I'm saying this as a former researcher. I'm new to this forum, but I've taken part in a number of others for many years now, and my experience is that you would get more responses if you told folks something about yourself first and be specific about what it is that you are doing. Best of luck.

[JMPLevy]

Thank you Bruce for the advice.

here is the jist.

I am a student in my last year of studies in a prestigous school for television and film production. In our last year we get into groups and pitch an idea to a group of execuitives and if green lighted begin the hard journey to producing, scripting, financing, shooting and editing our own television series, documentary, film and so on.

Right now we are in the midst of ideas and I have always been intrested in the lives of expats what made them decide to pack up their life from home, leave their 8-5 job, family and old self to explore a whole new side of the world and their identity.
This can either be turned into a scripted pilot if some stories peek interest or are inspiring or if I find people willing into a documentary about the characters that take the leap of faith.

I hope this is enough explanation and i look forward to hearing from those of you that are willing to share their story and the answer to the questions i provided earlier. Also you do not need to answer the first question since all of this can be kept private.

Thanks

Jackie

[atlantis]

Much better like that... I'll try to find time to help and to answer to your questionnary. Don't expect anything immediately, but you should receive an email from me this month. Just be ready to correct the orthograhical and grammatical mistakes ;)

[kingwilly]

Hate to be rude, but I've seen these sort of documentary or book author surveys before, better check first the 'angle' the producers/authors wanna push... eg: loser expats moving to S.E. for cheap mail order brides....

If you send details what final editorial control will subject have to refuse publishing?

What relevance is your name ?

Not saying that this particular survey is going to be like that, but worth considering, seen other people get burnt before....

[Black Adder]

Hate to be rude, but I've seen these sort of documentary or book author surveys before, better check first the 'angle' the producers/authors wanna push... eg: loser expats moving to S.E. for cheap mail order brides....

If you send details what final editorial control will subject have to refuse publishing?

What relevance is your name ?

Not saying that this particular survey is going to be like that, but worth considering, seen other people get burnt before....


Mail Order? DHL is the way to go, they don't come all crumpled up that way........

[jimbo]

Surveys do not such personal details as names if they are statistics and makes folks a bit suspicious especially in these days of identity theft.

[atlantis]

My plan was to answer from question 2 to question 8. Age and occupation is something I would have no problem to release, though it would be an headache to clearly define what I am doing because of the diversity of my activities. Name, for sure, won't be released. Absolutely of no use in a survey. But thanks for the above advices.