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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Clear Moment
Aidan Holloway-Bidwell
2013-01-04
Day 98 in Ecuador 12/05/2012 Every so often the sun breaks the neutral gloom of the cloud forest haze. The perpetual fog is suddenly chased off, rays of yellow sunlight at its heels, and one feels as if under a hole carved in the clouds. To all sides, miles away, the huge, fluffy, floating beasts...
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How I Spend my Days
Abby Lindsay
2013-01-04
I have received a few request to describe what my days look like here, so in honor of that, here ya go!! It is a little bit hard to describe an “average day” because those don’t really exist… I have two jobs, so depending on what day of the week you catch me, I have...
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Gringo
Josh Thompson
2013-01-04
One thing I expected living in Ecuador was to be treated like a foreigner. When people laugh while I walk by, stare without responding to my “Good Morning” or yell the only english words they know in my direction (“I Love You”) I’m not surprised. If an Ecuadorian wearing a feather hat and wool poncho stumbled around my town...
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Morochos Stories
Bijan Sanchez
2013-01-04
One of the more popular questions I have been asked by friends and family back home throughout the past few months in Ecuador has simply been: “What are you doing there?!” Well here to answer your query is my “day in the life” video I made for Teaching Seminar 1. I am in the Andean, indigenous community of Morochos...
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Choice
Bijan Sanchez
2013-01-04
Hello, my name is Bijan Sanchez, and I would just like to recount some of the reasoning’s behind the choices I have recently made that have eventually brought me here to the Andean, indigenous community of Morochos on my Global Citizen Year. The choice, the choice was always there; such a simple yes or no is granted for me...
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A Day In My Life In Video
Josh Thompson
2013-01-04
Here’s a video of a day in my life, to go along with the photos in my previous post
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Life in Chimborazo, Ecuador
Fikrte Abebe
2013-01-04
So for the past two months I’ve been living with a completely indigenous family in the community of Mancheno, about an hour away from Riobamba, Chimborazo and working in an INFA center as well as a school where I teach English. I love my family; especially my grandmother who does a great job of making me feel like a...
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A blank page and a Pencil
Grace Bachmann
2013-01-04
A classroom full of ten year-old’s is daunting. They wiggle at their desks, leave their seats to wash slates, and argue over bits of chalk. In broken French, and then more fluidly Pulaar, I ask a few students to draw a face on the blackboard. Every student jumps from his decaying wooden desk, arms outstretched...
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El Triunfo: A Drive Through the Tropical Side
John Villanueva
2013-01-04
It’s actually been a while since that time on the Ecuadorian coast: October 14, 2012, the day I made it to Guayaquil, the largest and most modernized city in Ecuador. My supervisors and I at Fundación UTOPIA attended a three day agro-ecological forum in Guayaquil that highlighted the Food Sovereignty Movement in Ecuador. It was inspiring: I soaked in...
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Un Dia en Mi Vida
Mackenzie McMillen
2013-01-04
Here’s a glimpse of what my life is like here in Alausí, Chimborazo. More blog posts coming soon!
Read MoreA Glimpse Into Sandiara
Matthew Travers
2013-01-03
I decided to make a video in order to better depict my site and apprenticeship. I currently live in Sandiara at my site, Centre de Formation et de Reinsertion Agricole de Sandiara (Agricultural Training and Reinsertion Center of Sandiara).CFRAS is an example of effective foreign aid, which is helping people better their lives to allow them to sustain themselves. In...
Read MoreGood Morning Sebikotane
Allie Wallace
2013-01-03
5:59 am: The alarm clock goes off. I wiggle my foot free of the mosquito net, hitting the off button with my toes in the dark. I take a few deep breaths to brace myself before 6:00 am: The guy at the mosque outside my window starts his morning yell/chant over the loudspeakers. I’m not...
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