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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Finally Here
Gabe Jackman
2012-09-07
I landed in Quito after a full day of travel today. I did not even attempt to go to sleep last night, since the bus was leaving at 3:15 and I had to pack and weigh my bags. Fall training at Stanford was amazing and I had a spectacular time getting to know the other...
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The Beginning of My Year
Barker Carlock
2012-09-07
Here is my first video documenting this year!! The Beginning of My Year or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmVSGSv2Nds&feature=youtu.be
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Senses of Senegal
Emily Collins
2012-09-07
I see. I see a new world, like nothing I have experienced before. I see people all over the streets outside, or televisions on all day in the house. I’ve discovered women wearing intricate patterns for dresses, men hanging off the back of public transportation buses. I perceive trees with leaves of a brilliant green, and dirt on each...
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I am here, I am present, I am willing
Talia Katz
2012-09-07
Dakar mystifies me. I find myself in a fascinating whirlwind of new culture, sounds, smells, tastes, and words. I haven’t even come close to scratching the surface of Dakar, but from the past few days of exploration I’d like to share with you what I’ve discovered thus far. While my advanced French for the most...
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Darkness
Emily Ford
2012-09-07
Every time I have constructed a mental globe over the past 10 days, my mind, Google Maps style, zooms into the western most coast of Africa. Yet instead of the envisioning my future home, Senegal has been blacked out. All I see is darkness. When I hear the anecdotes from past Senegal fellows, I have...
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List of Firsts
Lydia Collins
2012-09-07
In the days leading up to my departure from home, I kept catching myself adding to a mental list of “lasts.” As I walked my dog around the block I would think about how this is the last time I will be doing that exact activity for the next eight months. My last time eating homemade granola, buying...
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Gabe Jackman
2012-09-02
I landed in Quito after a full day of travel today. I did not even attempt to go to sleep last night, since the bus was leaving at 3:15 and I had to pack and weigh my bags. Fall training at Stanford was amazing and I had a spectacular time getting to know the other...
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A Little on the Why
Hannah Bouline
2012-08-26
Global Citizen Year. Why am I doing it? I’ve been posed the question a hundred and one times and each answer seems to come out a bit differently. Buzz phrases such as “a great experience” and “gaining perspective” and “reenergizing myself” pop in frequently. Each time I jumble the words around and spit them back...
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Ariel Vardy
2012-08-22
This may not be so interesting right NOW, but It will be interesting later. I am creating a time capsule where I am locking up an opinion of all these “Genres” such as Medication, food ect, and I am writing my thoughts on them NOW. Then after the trip, I will write a similar blog,...
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Adventure Is Out There
Sam Reeve
2012-08-21
My name is Sam Reeve, and I am ready. I’m ready to embark on the journey of a lifetime; ready to live in and explore the culture of a completely different community; ready to leave my small Southern community with memories, friends, and supporters behind me; ready to see the Amazon; ready to try some...
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An Unlikely Thank You
Danielle Livneh
2012-08-13
I never thought I’d see the day where I was grateful for being rejected from my top school. Six months ago if you had told me that I would eventually feel this way, I probably would have said you were crazy with that impressive cynicism only we teenagers are capable of. But here I stand,...
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“Pace”
Amalia Rowan
2012-08-09
The last thing my Italian Host family gave me when I returned home was a rainbow colored flag that matched the one they had waving in their garden in Domodossola, a small town in the Alps of Italy. They instructed me to hang it in my own home so that our peace flags would always...
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