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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Where Even Am I?
Leonardo Ruiz-Sanchez
2018-05-14
This can be a simple or tricky question depending on how it is approached. It’s always easy to state the obvious: I am in Brazil. I am waiting for a bus. I am going to my apprenticeship. Although this is the truth, it is not the whole truth. There are so many other sides of...
Read MoreA Little Surprise
Gemma Kelton
2018-05-13
Mataji 4:00am. I check my phone and see a long string of texts, exponentially increasing by the second, all sent within a minute. Fifteen texts. All from Mom. Oh, dear lord. “Hi Gemma.” “Gemma!!!!” “Gemmaaaaaa, where are you?????” “You haven’t sent me any pictures in a long time!!!!!!”...
Read MoreSampling the Bridge Year — GCY India Capstone
Sunghoon Kwak
2018-05-12
For my Global Citizen Year capstone project, I chose to cut up a video containing small one-second clips from several days of my bridge year. Although each clip is seemingly insignificant, as I strung them together, the collective experiences blossomed into something that symbolized my entire year; bits and pieces of memories woven into each...
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Fellows are Family
Joseph Hansen
2018-05-10
I woke up that morning feeling terrible. It was a sunny day a long time back and despite feeling that awful I lugged myself out of bed and embarked on the four-hour journey to the Valle de Chota. It wasn’t a good idea to go up there, but everyone in my cohort was and I...
Read MoreTLTD Vlogs: Day 15
Marissa Emerson
2018-05-09
The Last 30 Days (Day 15): March 21, 2018Today I made sandwiches for teacher snack, bought supplies for my Final Community Project, and got some college news.Memory of the Day: Getting the news that I got another internship that I really didn't think I would get! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHKd5QVqZeo&t=2s Please DONATE to my Global Citizen Year fundraising...
Read MoreTLTD Vlogs: Day 14
Marissa Emerson
2018-05-09
The Last 30 Days (Day 14): March 20, 2018Today I was shocked by receiving logistics for traveling back home, went to the store with my siblings, and chilled out for the rest of the day.Memory of the Day: Feeling like a superhero by scaring off a dog that was coming after my host siblings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsHasWlSkDM&t=9s...
Read MoreTLTD Vlogs: Day 13
Marissa Emerson
2018-05-08
The Last 30 Days (Day 13): March 19, 2018 Today I graded a ton of papers, visited the hospital*, and had a lyric-yelling war with Erick. *I got permission before filming in the hospital room. Please don’t be worried about that. 🙂Memory of the Day: Eating a red velvet cupcake while walking in the...
Read MoreIt’s hard to fully understand where we all came from but being back…
Ezekiel Alford
2018-05-05
It’s hard to fully understand where we all came from but being back in America. Suck a fast past which I can’t relate. Being in Senegal so laid back. Just sit around the house and get fat. Didn’t have to worry about money or your bank account just living life to the fullest and making...
Read MoreThis is Ecuador
Shauni Lustig
2018-05-04
This is a quick look into how Ecuador is small but so full of different environments. attachment-2.pdf
Read More“How Does it Feel Being Home?”
Wyatt Foster
2018-05-04
One of the questions I’ve been getting the most is, “how does it feel being home??”. I honestly wish I had a more interesting answer than the fact that it feels normal. The roads are the same, the buildings unchanged, and my room was just as I left it. So no, it doesn’t feel strange...
Read MoreClosing Capstone of a year, to a Lifetime of Curiosity
Isabel Hallock
2018-05-03
For the final closing project of my Global Citizen Bridge Year, I presented to my old Black Nationalism class. My old teacher Mr. Green had called me the night before and said the vlass was studying about India and the Bandung conference, and was wondering if I could speak more on the ties between India...
Read MoreMy Year in a Video
Caroline Smith
2018-05-01
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