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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10 Things You Might Not Have Known About India
Alana Poole
2016-04-02
1. Dancing Queens You don’t have to be seventeen or female to be a dancing queen! Everyone in India is a dancing queen regardless of age and gender. Bollywood, Garba, Dandiya, Sambalpuri, Lavani, Bharatnatyam…the list goes on! These dances, both modern and traditional, are completely enjoyable and ridiculously fun. This photo was taken during Dussehra,...
Read MoreThe Hourglass (Dedicated to My Grandfather)
Momo Manalang R.
2016-04-01
The western dawn crept into the net of my wakefulness. I tangled in yesterday’s web, unwillingly battling the clock’s legitimacy. Miami had catapulted my body like a pebble thrust along the lips of the Pacific, where I’d arrived to Manila shackled by an insomnia that knitted my eyelids back into my cheeks. I...
Read MoreFinal Community Project – a Video
Katherine Brooke-Davidson
2016-03-31
My final project was to organize a collection of books in my apprenticeship host into a working children’s library. Here’s the process:
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Cooking in Brasíl
Deonte' Lee
2016-03-31
My experiences of furthering my cooking wizardry.
Read MoreShort Stories
Hannah Cho
2016-03-31
September 29, 2015 After having taken several hearty naps throughout the day earlier, I am not tired and have trouble falling asleep. Then, like clockwork, at midnight by bladder calls. I lay awake in bed, arguing with myself for half an hour before I can no longer take the pressure and decide that I cannot fall asleep before I have...
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Obrigado Pessoal
Eduardo Campbell
2016-03-30
Já são quase sete meses de eu estar marando em Paranaguá e numa semana estarei indo embora para meu país natal Panamá. Foram sete meses de muitas alegrias e também de momentos muito difíceis, mas o mais importante é que conheci pessoas maravilhosas que fizeram desta experiência algo muito especial. Primeiramente quero agradecer as quatro...
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Minha Paranaguá
Eduardo Campbell
2016-03-30
Belo LitoralOh! Bela Paranaguá Deus boas vindas Aos colonizadores do Paraná. Bela Cidade Cultural Já virou herança nacional. O fandango é uma festa incomumIgual a este não existe nenhum. Rodeada por manguezaisQue neles vivem vários animais. Garças, peixes e caranguejos, São esses que me lembro de lampejo. O porto trabalha a mil Importando e exportando por navios. Lá param vários cargueirosMas nenhum de passageiro. Pessoas são alegresSem...
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Careless Heroes, Hidden Saviours
Munyaradzi Munyati
2016-03-30
Being a comic nerd, I’ve always had an obsession with caped vigilantes, swooping in to save the world and prevent the evils from coming out on top. From Spiderman, to Nightwing, I’ve always imagined myself with their abilities, making a difference out there in the world. But it’s my time here in Ecuador that has...
Read MoreTIME – attempting poetry
Austin Nguyen
2016-03-29
(made for a gcy prompt in trying other forms of storytelling) its funny, i think. how all things change. in the time it takes for a seed to sprout up from the ground for clouds to come and go for rain to nuture new life for a head of corn to stand tall in the...
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Water: a photo essay
Brooke Donner
2016-03-29
Here’s a look at how we use water around my host family’s compound in Kédougou, Senegal. My neighbor’s well was our primary source of water until it and most other wells in the neighborhood dried up in late February. I’ve been getting my drinking water from this well pump since I arrived in...
Read MoreStand Still, Look Pretty
Brianna Gilmore
2016-03-27
As a caucasian girl from Raleigh, North Carolina, I have been fortunate enough not to have endured the annoyance of being gawked at by strangers. If I walked into a grocery store in a 17th century costume, people would probably will stare. However, the correlation between the amount of times people stare at me and...
Read MoreWhat I’ve Learned
Noah Hapke
2016-03-26
If I were to list every individual aspect of growth that I have seen in myself this year, this would be a very long(er) blog. From overall global perspective to my favorite act of showing “curiosity before judgement” to maintaining self-awareness, this year has given me the opportunity to become a person I am proud...
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