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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Reflections Before My Last Month
Rene Ramos
2018-03-03
With only a month left within Ecuador, I don’t think that there is anything more I can say to the family that houses me, and the program that funded me other than thank you. There is no other words that can properly communicate how I keep this year long experience in me. To give examples...
Read More3110 kilometers
Alexandra Moreno
2018-03-02
The month of February is 28 days, making it the shortest month of the year. It would be fitting thar during this month I see the most of Ecuador in the least amount of time. I started the month off in Vilcabamba in the Loja province for Training Seminar 2. Vilcabamba is known for...
Read MoreDays of Frustration (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Country)
Sunghoon Kwak
2018-03-02
Near the beginning of my fellowship, my TFI mentor taught his class a lesson on self-control and choices. A simple but engaging half-hour followed. He went over the factors that we as individuals are able to control on a daily basis. Despite being several years older than the target audience of sixth graders, I was...
Read MoreToday I accomplished a goal I set for my stay in Senegal. It was to…
Ezekiel Alford
2018-03-02
Today I accomplished a goal I set for my stay in Senegal. It was to become one and not only Black American so I get different price then other people but to be called and claimed Senegalese. Not only my last name being the best in the whole Senegal cohort and being the first sereer...
Read MoreJourney In Photos
Chloe Cobb
2018-03-02
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Read MoreHello!
Chloe Cobb
2018-03-02
I've made it to Brazil! Haha. I know I haven't given an update since being here. Desculpa (means I'm sorry in Portuguese). I've been here for 6 months now and it seems like it's only been three. Time really has been flying by, it's like I blinked and now it's almost time to go back...
Read MoreHow I Almost Turned Down My Gap Year
Alexi Strike
2018-03-01
I was accepted into Global Citizen Year very early (the summer before my senior year of high school). Nobody in my family is an avid traveler, and I had previously only gone on short international trips, but I wasn’t phased. I was in the midst of planning another (short) international trip, and 7 months later,...
Read MoreBlog 6
Nicolas Livon-Navarro
2018-03-01
Today is March 1st, which is crazy because I have exactly 34 days until I leave my host family and 37 until I leave Brazil. It's kind of hard to wrap my head around it but its here, the final month of my journey. I have mixed emotions about leaving so soon. On the...
Read MoreBlog 5
Nicolas Livon-Navarro
2018-03-01
As a kid, I never took much pleasure in reading. I would do it when I had to, but it was never something I would do voluntarily. Dyslexia made it hard for me to read without giving me headaches, especially in English since it was my second language. Although I hated reading, I really...
Read MoreThe noise was too much. Lifted my hand to my ear to suppress the ringing…
Ezekiel Alford
2018-03-01
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