Fellow Stories
True gap year stories from Fellows abroad!
Check out the latest blogs from Global Citizen Year Fellows in Brazil, Ecuador, and India!
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The Weirdness of Normalcy
Ely Kadish
2013-05-15
As someone who had experienced Reverse Culture Shock before, I prepared myself for the worst. I had lived that type of emotional period, before after only six weeks over seas, so I could only imagine how bad this was going to be. I painted on my smile, stuffed my most precious memories in little boxes...
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Suspended Animation
Barker Carlock
2013-05-15
Flight is truly a miracle, a spectacular marvel. There are four main principles to the concept of flight: lift, drag, weight, and thrust. I feel as though all of these forces are compounded upon me from all directions creating my first few days back in the States a sort of suspended animation. Never would I...
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The Giving Tree
Jordan Lee
2013-05-15
As some of you may know, I had somewhat of a “deprived” childhood. I’ve never seen Bambi, Winnie the Pooh, Sesame Street, or a whole assortment of commonplace children’s shows and movies. I’ve never been to any zoo. And I don’t remember ever eating a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich before the age of 15....
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Ecuador’s Infinite Possibilities
John Villanueva
2013-05-15
This is my Capstone Video to sum up my bridge year. Enjoy!
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An Uneven Balance
Tasha Torres
2013-05-14
I have little over a month left here in Kedougou and it seems like so much time and yet not even close to enough time for me to experience all that there is to experience. Recently I noticed that I either have really horrible days where I can’t stand it here and other days I...
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Oh Family!
Tasha Torres
2013-05-14
Time is running out faster than expected and I’ve been thinking a lot about the time that I’ve spent here. I don’t know much about my workplace (I keep track of the books but I don’t really know how much things cost or even the names of a lot of the items we sell), My...
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Bound Together by Dirt
Tasha Torres
2013-05-14
Being dirty has taken on a whole new meaning since coming to Senegal. Before, dirty was spilling something on your clean clothes, not bathing when your body odor suggested that you do otherwise, Not having dirt covered clothing/shoes. Practicing good hygiene! Eight months later and what it means to be dirty is completely changed! (Here...
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The Art of Religion
Jay Choi
2013-05-14
Ever since my early arrival home from Senegal in February, I made it a primary goal of mine to study religious texts. Religion had never been a priority in my academic or non-academic pursuits, perhaps because I had never had substantial exposure to any religion in my secular childhood to draw myself into the subject...
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Jumble
Lydia Collins
2013-05-14
I am a jumble. I am a jumble of everything and anything on so many levels. I can’t pinpoint how I feel or why I act how I act or why I say what I say or why I blog what I blog. I really started to jumble the night before we left Ecuador. I said goodbye...
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Beyond the Data- Capstone Film
Talia Katz
2013-05-14
In Senegal, approximately 55.2% of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Yet after completing my Global Citizen Year in rural Senegal, I’ve come to realize that development statistics don’t even begin to tell the real story. Thus, here is a glimpse into the past eight months of my life and a hint...
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