Fellow Stories

Fractures and Family

Talia Bailes

2016-03-24

Things Draw to a Close

Gabriel Lucas Yerdon

2016-03-23

   My seventh month in Brazil is drawing to a close. When I look back to our orientation at Tufts and arriving in Brazil to meet the other Global Citizen Year fellows, it seems like a lifetime ago. I am having trouble grasping the fact that is two short weeks I will be leaving my...

Frases preferida no Português

Deonte' Lee

2016-03-23

My favorite Portuguese phrases.  

Where I’m At

Emery Harwell

2016-03-21

I haven’t been keeping up with this blog nearly as much as I intended to, and for that I apologize.  I’ve hit my required amount for Global Citizen Year, and it would be pretty easy to just kinda drop off on these little updates.  However, I do feel the responsibility to let all of y’all...

Mirando hacia atrás

Josue Morales Vivas

2016-03-21

Mirando hacia atrás. September, 2014. Yesterday I was sitting on a bench near my new home thinking about all the happenings during these past two weeks -from our first Senegalese meal, to Mermoz beach. Today, I have figured out that I would share two inter combined lessons I have learnt throughout these two weeks that...

Better Late Than Never… A Word To My Chilca Kiddos/ The Big One-Nine

Miyo McGinn

2016-03-19

To the dear kids from the Chilcatotora elementary school: I’m going to try to put into words the warm fuzzy feeling I get whenever I think of y’all, which is at it’s simplest a deep gratitude and fondness. I’ve never been in a classroom like yours before; twenty kids, spanning seven grades, with one teacher, most of you...

Better Late Than Never… Carnaval Highlight!

Miyo McGinn

2016-03-19

“Nooooooo!” Laughing hysterically, I run back to where I’d stashed my phone earlier to protect it from the liquids flying around. I turn back around as soon as I find it, trying to get to the tanks of water in time to take a video of Elena – the other Fellow in Tarqui – being thrown in. But...

The River

Allison Douma

2016-03-19

One of the first things that I learned about my village of Mako was that the Gambie river flows right through the middle of it. I grew up in Richmond, Virginia where we call ourselves “The River City”, so I was beyond excited to have a river in my new home because it would feel...

Why I’m a child and not a bride

Armi Katariina Kauppila

2016-03-19

Integration, honestly. It’s a mix of celebration for the little wins and the feeling that this whole thing is a one big lie. A lie because for six desperate months I’ve been trying to become a part of something I cannot possible be a part of. The family, the village, the culture, anything. But suddenly,...

Home Stretch

Maria Nazarova

2016-03-17

As I move into my last month in Brazil, I struggle. I struggle when people ask me if I am excited to go home because this has become my home. I have routines here, I have friends here, I have a family that takes care of me. I guess I’ve just become accustomed to living...

Rehearsing

Maria Nazarova

2016-03-17

It’s all a process. My host brother is in a band and I was able to attend one of their rehearsals recently. I’d already been to some of their shows and heard the final product, but that’s not how it starts. Over and over and over again, they play the same song, switching tiny pieces...

An Ode to my Bridge Year in Photographs

Steven Schwab

2016-03-16

I’ve always been inspired by those “Photos-of-the-day” articles that surface, usually forgotten, as I peer through the headlines of Google News everyday. What does it take to get into those articles? Knowing someone? Being special? Trying really hard to get photographed by someone with an obviously high quality camera? Well, each of those has their...