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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2017 Playlist
Ayla Blair-Smith
2018-01-02
नमस्ते Translation: Namaste Translation: Hello First of all, ngā mihi of te tau hou, or in more familiar words to many readers; happy New Years! I hope 2017 was nothing but kind to you all, and that 2018 proves to be a great year. It’s been a while since I last wrote anything, mainly because...
Read MoreTo everyone that told me to grow up or act my age.
Ezekiel Alford
2018-01-02
To everyone that told me to grow up or act my age. This is not meant to throw shade so sorry if it does just needed to vent my bad I meant to express my feelings in a constructive way. I don’t understand how you can say act my age when we do the same...
Read MoreMeu primeiro discurso em Português
Elise Steenburgh
2017-12-31
I have a t h i c k American accent. I hate it. My voice is too high. I put too much inflection in my words. It breaks my heart, but I won’t be returning to the US with a Brazilian accent. But at least I’ll speak Portuguese. Learning Portuguese is easily my favorite part of my GCY...
Read MoreAllahu Akbar
Avinash Jagroo
2017-12-30
I hear it all the time. When an elder is expressing their delight that my cold has gone away, when a passerby tells my carpentry supervisor a tale he can't believe, when my host mom is baffled by my inability to remember the easiest Laala words, and so on. It's quite the common expression here in Senegal....
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Christmas in Ecuador
Elizabeth Ollila
2017-12-30
After about two months of multiple parties every week, my family announced to me that we were about to head into “party season.” I was shocked and confused because what the hell had we been in before?? But also I was ready for it, and, I’ve got to say, Ecuadorians do not disappoint. I loveeeeeee...
Read MoreAn introduction to Ecuador
Rene Ramos
2017-12-29
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Read MoreVoluntourism – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Wyatt Foster
2017-12-29
The concept of voluntourism has been debated about for many years. Opinions on the issue vary from the belief that it is another way for white people to exploit developing countries, to people who believe that exposure to other cultures will cause progress in terms of international development. While in the past, I’ve tended to...
Read MoreMissing Home
Bryneth Fuller
2017-12-25
I miss America. I miss the nature so nearby with a forest an hour one way and a beach an hour the other. I miss the freedom of its roads connecting each of its cities like a lifeline. That feeling of driving down the highway with nothing but myself and some money for gas. I...
Read MoreA Christmas Misfortune
Jordan Kendall
2017-12-25
For those of you that enjoy reading about unfortunate events, this one’s for you. The holidays as we know it are a time of giving, gratitude, and spending time with family. I was hoping to achieve all of these as I anxiously waited for my family to come visit me. Ever since three months prior,...
Read MoreThe Road Taken
Richard Hoang
2017-12-24
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy...
Read MoreA short entertaining story
Sophie Winter
2017-12-23
The scene is set. We were driving home after seeing the fluffiest, poofiest, biggest dog I have ever seen. His name was Konan, and I was given the opportunity to visit him at his home at the end of a rickety road on the top of a mountain. After I had given him hugs and...
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