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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It’s Never Too Late
Elena Blanco
2019-02-13
Throughout this gap year I haven’t been very fair to my host family. I let my insecurites get the best of me. My ignorance was played out in the form of judgement towards my family. I isolated myslef from my family, and at the time i didnt realize how it affected my family. I realize...
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Elena Blanco
2019-02-13
The best place for me to feel calm and think, is any place that has trees. I find myself having a hard time to sit and be present with others. This has always been quite difficult for me. When in a large group i feel as if i need a break to breath and recollect....
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Vida inteira numa terça-feira
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-02-12
Me lembro bem de ouvir alguém dizer que pra sobreviver a um ano sabático eu tinha que me acostumar a não fazer muita coisa. Abraçar o vazio das muitas horam que habitam numa terça-feira à tarde. Bem, antes que eu pudesse aprender a administrar a monotonia de não ter o que fazer, as mil e...
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Life on a Tuesday
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-02-12
[português no final] I remember being told that to be on a gap year you had to get used to not doing much. To embrace the void in the hours that can fit in a single Tuesday afternoon. Well, before I could learn how to manage the stillness of being bored, I was struck by...
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A day in Florianopolis
Julia Salomone
2019-02-12
7AM I wakeup (unless the goats next door wake me up earlier…) and quickly have breakfast and get dressed for work, making sure not to forget a lunch for later in the day (I forget one more often than I’d like to admit…) and rush out the door by 7:30AM to walk to apprenticeship nearby....
Read MoreA Reflection on the Holidays away from Home
Brian Hill
2019-02-12
Christmas is really different here in Ecuador. There just isn’t the same hype and celebration that’s present back home in the United States. Businesses are actually open on Christmas here, whereas Waffle House is pretty much the only place you can find food out of the house on Christmas in Atlanta. Most families don’t have...
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An Insight Into Northeast India
Leonie Tollefson
2019-02-12
“The Sun said to the Man, ‘Spread more light than heat, that is what our world needs.’” Father George, Siloam This quote is what began the transformative experience that was Northeast India and Learning Seminar 2. A land with beauty that I had never seen before, mountains coated in green, boundless lakes and rivers, and...
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Type Two Fun
Natalie Glick
2019-02-11
I think there is an odd expectation that when you take a gap year it’s all fun and games. You’re traveling, living away from home, you don’t have work; life seems a lot more open. Well I am here to tell you that this year has been far from easy. There have been really great...
Read MoreWhat is Different is Different, but also the Same
Mia Reyes
2019-02-11
My absence on this blog has been both an intentional one and an unintentional one. One that has both helped me and hurt me. And as my time here in Senegal is boiling down to a month and then some I have found myself reflective of the seconds that have slipped me, the months that...
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Manuel Quesada Nylen
2019-02-11
I used to say lightly I don’t want this trip to end because I genuinely felt it, I’m having fun and I’m learning and it’s all unknown out here so I can constantly explore and figure out new things about my environment and in turn about myself. Now though, I say it a lot heavily...
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I’d Rather Speak the 1000
Danielle Katz
2019-02-09
For anyone reading this blog who knows me, you might say that I’ve always been a quite… conversational… human being. In the last learning seminar, the Brazil cohort discussed “alternative” story-telling methods, forcing us to reject our instincts and tell stories with minimal verbal input. As a person who would rather speak the 1000 words...
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Disposable Diaries Pt. 3
Hannah Dang
2019-02-09
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