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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big mango fiber filled smiles
Rosalie Bull
2016-02-03
I spend my days with my hands in the dirt. Its a lovely job; taking root in the black grittiness of the Amazonian soil. Something about it fills me up, and that fullness bubbles up and out of me in big mango fiber filled smiles. It pours itself out to the tune of Graceland. It...
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It Only Goes Up From Here
Munyaradzi Munyati
2016-02-03
December 2015 will very easily go down as one of the most testing months of my life thus far. I was forced to withdraw my placement at my dream university because of some unfortunate circumstances, had to reapply to new schools in 13 days, had two occasions where the law enforcement here assumed I was...
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Open Letter To The One Who Feared Me
Munyaradzi Munyati
2016-02-03
Dear fearful citizen, I do not blame you for being afraid of the unknown. I do not blame you for the fear and concern for your loved ones, For the desire to protect at all cost from what you deem to be a threat. If anything, I’m thankful you chose flight over fight because...
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FEELS 2 – AUSTIN AND AUSTIN’S INFINITE PLAYLIST
Austin Nguyen
2016-02-01
Firstly, the title is a play on the name of that one movie with Michael Cera in it: Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, I think. I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard its good, so maybe I should. Secondly, I’ve realized lately that my coming here with Global Citizen Year has likely – no, definitely...
Read MoreBlog 4 I Am A Teacher
Ismahan Ismail Hersi
2016-01-31
I take up my duty when I read to children about Pippi Langstrømpe she who has been all over the world and seen many things strange who walks on her hands the way they do in Farthest India and backwards the way they do in Egypt and lies in the manner of Congo where there...
Read MoreBlog 3 Mera Hindi Bahut Kharab Hai (my Hindi is very bad)
Ismahan Ismail Hersi
2016-01-31
yesterday I thought about Oehlenschläger who revealed to the world this corner of the earth which smiles for Us more than any other when asked he said it is a lovely country which stands with broad beech near salty eastern beach It winds itself in hill, valley, it’s called old Denmark and it is Freja’s...
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Then and Now
Abigail Foy
2016-01-31
As I stare at a blurry photo of me and my family on my very first day of living in my new home, it seems almost as if I am looking at a different person. This person I see certainly looks like me, but she’s standing next to strangers – not her family. She doesn’t...
Read MoreRama – Love is in the Actions
Janet Sebastian-Coleman
2016-01-31
January 29th I kept pedaling. Speeding past the soccer players, I answered calls of, “Mrs. How are you?” and “Nali Jam!”. Today I was not going push the bike up that little hill right before the compound – today I was pedaling. Why did I always get off the bike once I was off road? I ducked under the...
Read More“I am a star”
stina.uro
2016-01-31
One of my first cultural shocks when I came to Pune was the amount of attention I got here. Wherever I turned, I would meet multiple eyes. Sellers would elbow their way past more interested costumers just to get to me. And people would speak to me and ask for photos of me wherever I...
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stina.uro
2016-01-31
6.30 “It is time to wake up. It is 6.30” my alarm goes with the most annoying, monotonous voice I’ve heard. Had this been a perfect world, there would have been birds and sunshine waking me up. But it is not. And I start my day finding a new way to kill my alarm clock....
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Thoughts from the desert
Josue Morales Vivas
2016-01-31
There’s certainly many definitions to what a desert is or how it should feel like. Not surprisingly, for someone coming from a tropical place, a desert is pretty much a very sandy, arid, and not very populated place, reaching high temperatures of even 45C degrees.I’ve been feeling that heated wind for quite a while already....
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Unexpected Lessons
Gabriella Westcott
2016-01-30
Again, again, and again us fellows were warned of the evil that would come about if we had these certain things embedded in our minds. These things that could ultimately cause a harder time while in community by setting us up for possible success but most likely tearing us down by the shock of everything...
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