Fellow Stories
True gap year stories from Fellows abroad!
Check out the latest blogs from Global Citizen Year Fellows in Brazil, Ecuador, and India!
Category
Class Year
Country
Greetings in Khombole
Nisha Gharti Magar
2019-03-10
Greetings are different in every culture and here in Senegal specifically greetings are different in different part of the countries. Where I am currently located, it is mostly inhabited by Wolof people which is also the biggest ethnic group in Senegal. Greetings starts from Salam Walekum and Nanga def which means basically hello and how...
Read MoreNotes to the things I’ve lost
Sophia Alfaro
2019-03-10
I’ve been away from my permanent home for 7 months now. In that timespan I’ve lost too many things. Here’s my final goodbye to them all. The chain from a necklace that my first committed partner gifted me, that was accompanied by a one-of-kind topaz pendant that my mother and I picked out by the...
Read MoreOn Tambacouda Lake
Alexander Taylor
2019-03-08
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living...
Read More
To Give You A Sense
Maddy Gibson
2019-03-08
I realize I’ve done a poor job of sharing the day-to-day experience of my life in Ecuador. To paint a picture (and to document for my future self) I’ve made a list of some sounds, tastes, and smells. 🙂 S O U N D S – Musicians walking from restaurant to restaurant playing music on...
Read MoreThe Wolof Language
Maddi McGirr
2019-03-07
Some of my multi-lingual UWC friends may find this read somewhat amusing but I’m writing to share my perspective on learning a second language and becoming proficient in such. Senegal has many local languages, Wolof being the most common. Before coming to Senegal I was convinced that I would be learning French but upon arriving...
Read More
Updates from Bad Luck Garden
Alyssa Shteyn
2019-03-07
I’m sitting outside watching my favorite neighborhood kid play with his toy. He’s three years old and throwing things. He always throws his toys at the watchmen and smiling passerbys. He climbs up the parking garages of neighboring buildings and throws plastic cricket bats onto the street. No one stops him, this neighborhood is his...
Read More
Journey to the Galápagos (My Family Came to Visit!)
Jeffrey Fishman
2019-03-06
I recently got back from the most amazing trip with my family to the Galápagos Islands! My parents and my sister, Claire, came to visit me in Ecuador for a week, and it was so great to have them finally see my second home. We had so much fun during our action-packed vacation, and I’m...
Read MoreBlending In
Danielle Katz
2019-03-06
I wrote this blog in October, never posting it, wanting to know where my observations would go: “Two men frantically yelling ‘Mattheus’ and ‘Lucas’ up and down the street stop me while I’m walking to the bus. They explain that they have a meeting with these two others, but don’t have an exact address, hoping...
Read More
First Time In Touba
Andrea Flores
2019-03-06
December 24, 2018 ~ First time I went to Touba, where the great big mosque is located. It was an amazing experience. I woke up one day and I told my host brother that we should go, we got on a bus and left. the ride was long from where I live. I always...
Read More
Blessings
Faith Anderson
2019-03-06
At the beggining of this year the letters UWC have been constantly floating around, at Global Launch there was a massive confusion as to what this mysterious and glorious organization was. Sounded too good to be true, a sort of utopia, and also why had I never heard of it and had the chance to...
Read More
Unknown
Faith Anderson
2019-03-06
As this this gap year begins to come to a close I look back at various blog drafts I have saved, sitting unposted in fear that the words are unworthy. Even typing this I fear I am fearing that the words won’t be eloquent enough to put it out to the world. But looking at...
Read More