Week 4, Naroa

New week, new Basque! Meet Naroa, another London Basque.

My name is Naroa and even if I was born in Bizkaia I moved to San Sebastian many years ago and I've lived there since then. 

I came to London about three months ago. My two main purposes when I came here were to improve my English and get a job. I've been very lucky since I have the opportunity to both teach and learn at the same time: I'm working at an English school as a Spanish teaching assistant... and I'm loving it!

Besides, being Basque means a lot to me. I'm proud of being born in this Country and I think we've got a very especial and interesting culture. Furthermore, from my point of view is a pity that, in this case, most of English people (at least the ones I've come to meet) know very little about our culture. For that reason, I'd love to contribute in your project as it is a very good idea to share different ideas and make people be aware of the richness of our Country. 

I'm looking forward to having my "Basque Week".

Week 3, Marti

Please give a warm welcome to our next contributor! It'll be very interesting to hear from an adopted Basque who loves the Basque Country just as much as we do.

Marti Buckley Kilpatrick is from Birmingham, Alabama and currently resides in San Sebastián, Spain.  Brought there by her love of food, she divides her heart equally between the South of the US and Basque Country (although her stomach prefers the latter). She is a journalist, with work appearing in several national US publications, and a blog featured by CNN. She cooked for nearly two years under Alabama’s most celebrated chef. And now she’s a little bit of everything, working with Belle Chevre, a goat cheese company out of Alabama, BasqueStage, a program for young cooks in Basque Country, and various other projects, as long as there’s food involved.   Non gogoa, han zangoa.

Week 2, Iker

Excited to meet our next contributor? I certainly am! Here we go:

Iker lives in Mexico and his Basque grandparents moved there during the civil war, he has tons of family in the Basque Country and visits regularly. He is a proud Basque and he'd like to tackle anything from Basque sports to Basque folklore during his week. Iker is a very international Basque, he's lived in many different countries and has family all over the world.

Week 1, Jone

We are officially launching with our first contributor from midnight tonight! Very exciting, thanks for putting up with this this past week.

And without further ado; everyone, come meet Jone.

My name is Jone and I am a Basque Abroad, you can call me J.

I came to Ireland many moons ago to learn English and haven't found my way back yet,live with my long suffering husband Up North to be precise (not quite Malin Head though!)

Although my days of "gaupasa" (all nighter) are now gone I'm still the last one to leave the party.

Food, drink and the Athletic will be my fortes,hope Olazabal will bring the Ryder Cup home and will answer all questions indiscriminately.

Hope you all enjoy my tweeting and spread the word

Agur

Jx

Anna

Kaixo! I'll be your Basque for the week until we find more people who want to tweet. I'm Anna and I'm from London. Well, I'm from Bilbao originally but I've been here long enough to see myself as a Londoner. In fact, I've lived in London longer than I've lived anywhere else but I often miss Euskal Herria.

I absolutely love the @Sweden twitter project and I would love to create something similar for the Basque country. Please get involved, we'd love to hear from you!

Kaixo world!

Kaixo and welcome to the Basques Abroad project. This is very much along the same lines of the @Sweden idea (excellent project if I may say so, please follow them on twitter if you aren't already) and will be be used to promote Basque awareness, culture and identity to English speakers.

I will publish a set of rules and guidelines on how to get involved very soon (UPDATE: Check out the 'get involved' page for info and guidelines). Essentially the idea is to tweet about your daily life, Basque issues, Basque culture etc from wherever you are in the world regardless of your legal nationality, and most importantly to have fun while doing it.

Please watch this space for more info. Meanwhile you can contact me on basquesabroad at gmail dot com