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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Why everybody can be a leader

2017-09-01

I believe for one to join a program such as Global Citizen Year it takes a rather cheesy, naive and idealistic dreamer. It takes someone who is looking beyond their horizon with an indescribable curiosity to listen to the stories that humans as equal as ourselves are telling every day around the globe. It takes...

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Adventures with Antonio!

2017-08-31

The craziest thing that I’ve done is surf down an active volcano in Nicaragua. Actually, that’s probably the second most craziest thing I’ve done. The first… well, subscribe to my blog and find out! ¡Bienvenidos! My name is Antony Le and I recently graduated from Andrew P. Hill High School in San Jose, California. In...

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So this is how it happened, my Global Family is expanding into Brazil!

2017-08-31

Looking back, I will never forget the day when while having what seemed to be a typical afternoon in UWC Mahindra College, right before everyone gets really busy and emails cease to be checked, an email changed it all.  I opened an email that sparked my curiosity as it contained a document which explained how...

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blog #3

2017-08-31

I might as well get in as many blogs as I can while I'm still in America, right? Tonight I was really moved by the fireside chat about decision making that was presented by an alum who was unfortunately sent home from his global citizen year (along with some other fellows). I was so moved...

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August 27th

2017-08-31

Hello! I wanted to do a quick explanation before I started the actual blog post. I’m currently at Stanford, where I will be for the next two days until I fly to Dakar. I wrote most of this on the plane from Seattle to San Francisco, but because I take forever to articulate my words,...

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blog #2

2017-08-30

I didn't expect to be writing another blog so soon, but today I was really moved by our morning seminar. We were visited by a speaker, Lee Mun Wah, who taught us about diversity by literally forcing us to interact and make a connection with someone else in the room that we hadn't met yet. ...

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August 29

2017-08-30

Two years ago today, I joined one of the coolest groups of people I’ve met in my life in the middle of the forest on Vancouver island. It was my first day at Pearson College. Freaking overwhelming to be honest. Found this with the caption "Living my realistic dream life". Not quite exaggerating though… A...

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Orienting Myself to Orientation

2017-08-30

This week is nothing like I expected. I told one of my mentors before I arrived at Global Citizen Year’s Program Launch that I was least excited about this first week. I hate orientations: the hyperactivity, anxious kindness, the leech of fresh and desperate “friendships”. Disgusting, right? Yeah, I’m not with it. I wanted to...

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Spoken Words: But That’s Just Me

2017-08-30

  I somehow never fit in with those girls with, or without melanin.   Just because this rhymes does that mean I’m not intelligent?    Plump lips and big chest    Somehow on other girls it looks best,    But that’s just me.      I’ve never liked kool aid,    I don’t like it...

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blog #1

2017-08-29

Well, here I am. Yesterday I left my first and only home, a little house in the quiet comfort of Carrboro, North Carolina, at 4:45 AM to start a journey that will indubitably change me forever. It's safe to say I'm still in shock. I arrived in California for the first time at 8:34 AM....

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Why Fear is Good

2017-08-28

The last time I flew into SFO I held the hand of a strange woman during takeoff; I feared flying alone. Now, less than two years later, I’m on a flight to SFO again and the two seats beside me are empty. My fear today is different. My fear is not of a rough flight...

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First Blog!

2017-08-27

I am from Buenos Aires, from the pinchos al carbon in the hot summer heat. I am from my family in Madrid and Pamplona. I am from the beautiful game that is futbol, the game that raised me and showed me to kick before i could walk. I am from my little sister, and the...

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