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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Eight months in four minutes
Brooke Donner
2016-11-01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCoC5D5488s A sanguine overview of my bridge year in Senegal. For a slightly more honest and raw account, look back at my previous blogs. Peace only.
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Global Competence
Hugo Santiago
2016-08-03
Pride. Not the bad kind, the good kind. The kind a parent shows on their face when their kid just said they were accepted to college. Pride. That was what I saw on the face of a Black woman sitting within the street markets of Ibarra, as she looked up to Desire Mulla (a Black...
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The Privilege of Time and Living In-Between
Chantal Tonnessen Smeland
2016-07-12
Little is known about this special place, but I for one have developed a love-hate relationship to it. It is like my personal observatory, where the only thing separating me from the universe is the thick glass dome. I can lie here comfortably, merely observing and dreaming myself away into the stars, or I can...
Read MoreWhere I’m supposed to be
Khwanhatai Kongkapetch
2016-06-25
You can watch my capstone video here. Hope you enjoy! Saludos cordiales, Ploy Kongkapetch
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La Familia
Marisa Etzell
2016-06-20
A little insight into my Ecuadorian family, the people who so graciously welcomed me into their home. I am so thankful for every one of them; they each hold a special place in my life. Take a look at the photo of all of us together and click on the audio to listen...
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Wednesday hope
Armi Katariina Kauppila
2016-06-08
April 20th. I feel obliged to publish some kind of a reflection now that I'm back "home" again. I feel obliged to make an effort to describe why Senegal, this sort-of-random country that first felt so foreign to me eventually made me sob on the floor of the airport departure hall after bag-drop, repeating again...
Read MoreTing that Happened
Maxx H. Jordan Espinosa
2016-06-06
Epilogue: I didn’t really realize that I already had 4 blogs up, I don’t want to post too many cause I feel like only a handful of people other than my mom and aunts read my blogs (Shout out to Lisa Walter & Eileen! And other staff!??!). Leave me a message! Show some love! It...
Read MorePhoto Edition
Skyler Narotsky
2016-06-06
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Read MoreMy Apprenticeship
Skyler Narotsky
2016-06-06
During my seven months in Cañar, I spent much of my time working at a local organization called Mushuk Yuyay. Kichwa for “new way of thinking,” Mushuk Yuyay is an agricultural organization whose structure consists of two parts: the Coop and the Association. The Coop serves as a community bank, holding people’s money as well...
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PHOTO ESSAY: THE LAST DAY IN DOUGNANE
eirikowl
2016-06-05
In my first blog post I made a soundtrack which featured the various sounds that surrounded me at the farm I worked at. At the end of my global citizen year all those sounds that had initially confused me, were now sounds that I connected with a deep sense of familiarity and belonging. That language...
Read MoreSPEAK UP – THE HEART
Austin Nguyen
2016-06-05
So in Global Citizen Year, we have a something called a speakup – basically, it’s a fellow’s time to get up in front of a selected audience and talk about whatever they want. It can be advice, a story, a really heavy moment – whatever! Afterwards, the fellow is given constructive criticism, so it’s a...
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Notes while in Senegal/ Annotations en francais aussi
Josue Morales Vivas
2016-06-03
Things not to forget about Mboro: I look around and realize there aren’t car garages in the neighborhood. There aren’t many cars. Instead, an economically stable family would have a horse-drawn vehicle, which still is, one of the main sources of transportation. Holidays are interesting. Today was the Magal fest. But everything has closed since...
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