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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September
Averielle Van Horne
2019-02-19
I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written in...
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Rebecca Bogart
2019-02-17
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was sitting in my Holocaust studies class, in room 1214 on the first floor of the freshman building. I remember every detail, even now a year later. We heard the first couple of rounds – warning shots. In the moment, we didn’t know what...
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Caterpillar Soup
Selena Harris
2019-02-17
*Preface: Something a lot of people don’t know is that caterpillars actually liquify in the cocoon before becoming a butterfly. Like, as a kid I always pictured the little caterpillar just growin’ wings, takin’ a snooze, and then poppin’ out 20 days later looking glorious as ever. In reality, for 80% of that process that...
Read MoreThings I have learned in the last five months
Grace Partridge
2019-02-16
– the process of healing is incredibly important, but don’t get so wrapped up in it that you lose part of yourself and forget to blossom. you need to be okay at some point – sometimes your problems aren’t something you can burn. sometimes it’s not that easy, and that’s okay – if you scratch...
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September
Averielle Van Horne
2019-02-16
> I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written...
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Coming Close To An End
Dena Muething
2019-02-16
I have a lot of mixed feelings at this point in my gap year and I’ve been trying not to think about the small amount of time left here. I have less than 60 days left in Ecuador, about 50 days left with my host family in Bella Union , and less than 30 days...
Read MoreDirty Laundry
Gema Benavides Jimenez
2019-02-16
When you don’t have a washing machine in your house and you don’t want to wash all of your clothes by hand, you are forced to look for an alternative – in other words, you better find yourself some friends that do have a washing machine in their house. The day of the accident, Libbie...
Read MoreAn Indian Girl’s Guide to Ecuador
Surabhee Arjunwadkar
2019-02-15
(A short, not-comprehensive-at-all, possibly biased list of things that might help you thrive in Ecuador) 1. If you have two bottles of 100% pure Parachute coconut oil for your hair in an environment that is 20℃ or less, and no access to a heat source, you will have to buy very expensive extra virgin olive...
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7-place chronicles
Jovana Jovanovska
2019-02-14
* This is a combination of a few of my journal entries from the past month Walking 30 min a day to the garage (bus station) seemed as an easy task during the first month here. That is, until I realized that the sand is everywhere around me. The sand is like a shadow, forever...
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London Samson
2019-02-14
April By April I will not only be London Samson but also Mame Amy Ndiaye. I will have had my fair share of Cheb, ghete, and sauce soble. I will have eaten approximately 200 baguettes and loved every single one of them. I will have learned that waking up at 7 am is a lot...
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Last Week In Meghalaya
Anthony Romain Jr.
2019-02-14
These aren’t all of the pictures I took while in Meghalaya. You can view all my pictures by following this link: drive.google.com/folderview?id=1jVKz33P6ZAdRUswitxEaI0XTatMItBmp *You may have to copy and paste the URL to your browser*
Read More10 Things I Have Learned in Ecuador
Maddi Schink
2019-02-13
It’s hard to believe but my time in Ecuador is coming to an end. As of the beginning of February, I have officially been living in Ecuador for five months. The weeks at times flew by, while others crept by at an agonizingly slow rate. Luckily, I learned pretty early on to take this experience...
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