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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Sick
Noah Hapke
2015-10-16
This article I bring to you is exactly as the title states: sick. The medical, physical, and emotional level of having lesser strength, mental capacity, and/or understanding of reality. However, yesterday was quite the opposite. On Thursday, during one of my English classes, I noticed I started feeling a little…yucky. My nose was runny, my...
Read MoreLooking Ahead
Marisa Etzell
2015-10-16
My 19th birthday is on April 11, 2016, and that is around the time that we leave our community here in Ecuador and fly back to the United States, so I’m going to use that as the “end date” for my vision statement, even though it’s not really the end, it’s the beginning. By my...
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New Blog Post Deonte´ Lee
Deonte' Lee
2015-10-16
The language in the city I want to leave from my bridge year with a modified expat version of,´´ Sex in the City´´ restructured as,“ Language in the City,“ experience. I want to have experiences with interesting people whilst meeting interesting people. I want to go to work and have that inauthentic breathing in of...
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An Uncomfortable Tranquility
Alana Poole
2015-10-16
Growing up in San Francisco, I’ve been constantly stimulated by the hustle and bustle of the city. So when I found out that we would be spending our first five weeks in India at an ashram, I was so psyched. For those of you who don’t know, an ashram is a spiritual monastery focused...
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The Almond of the Mountain
Indiana Nunez Sharer
2015-10-16
These are some pictures I have taken of Mandula during our first month in India. Through them, I hope to show and share a little of it. Happy Birthday, Mandula.
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The Motherland of Whiplash
Tatiana Calonje
2015-10-16
Whiplash is defined as, “injury caused by a severe jerk to the head, typically in a car accident.” Keyword: severe Synonym: India I am convinced that India is the motherland of whiplash and I’ll place a bet that there isn’t a single brace out there that would be enough to withstand the daily whiplash I...
Read MoreThe Continental Crisis
Daniel Lewis
2015-10-14
How many continents are there really? In the US were taught 7, Australia getting one all to itself, in Brazil, they are taught 6, because North and South America are just The Americas, and in much of the EU (and for the Olympic Committee) there are only 5 (sorry Antarctica, your 4,490 people didn’t make the...
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“Okay But Is it Really Pizza or is it Indian Pizza?” : The Homesick Girls Struggle for Food in India
Ivy Teglia
2015-10-13
I LOVE Indian food. Let me tell you, it’s my favorite. At home, I can’t get enough. I love going to Indian restaurants as much as I can. That’s one reason I was so excited to come to India – the food! I thought “Hey, go have fun in Ecuador eating guinea pigs and rice,...
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How Are You?
Ivy Teglia
2015-10-13
I haven’t said much about India or how I’m doing. Well, for the first time, I’m homesick. Not just for Nevada or for America, but for the people in my life. I miss my family and my friends, and although it’s been less than two months, it feels like it’s been a year. India...
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Little Bird
Ivy Teglia
2015-10-13
‘My grandmother was also very fond of the birds. She was a saint, this woman – when she walked into her garden and held out her arms, the birds would fly down from the trees to perch on her hands……I thought everyone’s grandmother could do this trick. But it was because she truly loved them....
Read MoreWhiplash
Elizabeth Schubert
2015-10-13
Driving in India looks like a scene from Fast and Furious, except picture rickshaws everywhere and more cows. There is no such thing as a lane in India; most streets don’t even have lines. One direction of traffic uses 2/3 of the road on their left side, and the other direction uses 2/3 on their...
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New Blog Post, Deonte’ Lee
Deonte' Lee
2015-10-13
Trading Knowledge; Trading Cards As a child I used to collect Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh cards, trying to obtain the strongest monsters to add to my collection. Now as a young adult still addicted to collecting things I have turned my attentions to collecting experiences and connections, the problem that I have is that these things...
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