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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Lessons from a River Trip
Bella Bjornstad
2014-08-14
I spent a few weeks this summer making smoothies for the Bicycle Tour of Colorado, camping out every night, moving every morning, and making smoothies all day. But I was with three other people who are river rafting enthusiasts, so at every chance, and there were many in that state, we’d pump up the four...
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Jillian Doke
2014-08-14
…to my heart. This blog is going to be an extension of all my thoughts, feelings, worries, and joys. I will be posting as much as possible once I depart for ECUADOR! It still hasn’t hit me that I will be living in another country, on another continent so soon. Only days left in the...
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Letter to Future Self
Rabi Ibrahim
2014-08-14
Dear future self, I hope time has been kind to you and that you are well. I am writing this as a Pre-Global Citizen Year Rabi to remind you of your thoughts and feelings before you embark on this undoubtedly life changing journey. You might need to revisit these emotions. At the moment, I am...
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Something to Note
Georgia Reid
2014-08-13
My blog begins as so: “Touch the Sky” – Julie Fowlis, Brave (Original Score) (Go listen to it.) In music there exists a raw manifestation of human emotion; it has the ability to transcend blockades of communication words are unable to breach. Music is a melodic language that allows for a fundamental understanding and connection...
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2. The Introductory Epilogue
Sophia Richter
2014-08-13
Hello! So I realized that my first post was probably rather boring and random to a lot of you who aren’t yet* familiar with how my brain works. I figured it would require a follow-up introduction to the previous introduction. It’s an introduction to the introduction except that it came after the first introduction! Ok,...
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1.Some Psychology, Philosophy, and Other Things I Know Nothing About
Sophia Richter
2014-08-13
Did you know that there is a part of your eye that is actually blind? Yea! I won’t go into all the details but basically there is a spot in the back of your eye where the optic nerve fibers pass through the retina so that there aren’t any light detecting cells on the surface....
Read More The “lasts”
Bailey Bullock
2014-08-13
Over this past year, I have been living my life in “lasts”: the last high school football game, the last soccer game, the last day of high school. I have even found myself categorizing these last few weeks before my trip as “lasts”: the last meal as a family, the last hangout with my girls,...
Read More Unanswered Questions
Yui Lee
2014-08-13
It was only two months ago where my high school career ended, and I thought, Ecuador is just around the corner! But reality wasn’t so easy with me. First, I had to get over the stress that I was leaving home and friends for a solid 8 months to go to a foreign country where I...
Read More Summer Storms
Sarah Richmond
2014-08-13
It rained today. Coming from Oregon, this really isn’t the most exciting news; but today’s rain was different. It was the kind of rain the grows steadily in the air for days before hand – making your bones heavy and your fingertips crackle with electricity. When the first swollen drops plummeted from the sky, soon...
Read More The Leap of Faith
Elisa Portz
2014-08-12
As I finish up my last days at Watertown High School, graduating, saying goodbye to longtime classmates, I am gearing up for a year different than your typical high school grad. This year I’m taking a bridge year between high school and college. A year for me to gain global perspective, to meet new people,...
Read More Steering
Maylin Enamorado
2014-08-11
I am quite a fan of Anne Sexton’s work. Among others, I consider her one of my poetry mothers. She is someone whose words I surround myself with whenever I sit down to assemble my own. When I sat down to write this blog post, I still didn’t have a concrete reason for going to...
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Are you ready to leave?
Azul Diaz
2014-08-07
Yes, they did give me a packing list, a list of things I need to accomplish before I leave, and a broad idea of what I will be doing for the next nine months. I have checked off items from that list and I have imagined my self countless times doing any sort of activity that...
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