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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Disposable Diaries Pt. 2
Hannah Dang
2019-02-09
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Read MoreAir Part 1
Avry Richter
2019-02-09
The air is heavy. The air is hot. The air effects me, it affects the Venezulan man attempting to sell candies to the bus folk, it affects my host mom as she mightily lights flame to this weeks garbage, it affects the tiny tots who frolic on the see-saw with a playfulness that is pure...
Read MoreLearning from my students.
Momar Mboup
2019-02-04
Four days a week and seven hours a day, my life in Hyderabad mainly revolves around children. Every day, I sincerely admire their aura of cheerfulness, optimism and innocence. Not to mention, each one has a dream he or she is chasing, no matter how far-fetched. To me, most of their dreams are unrealistic in...
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I’ll Wake You Up Tonight
Macy Lipkin
2019-02-03
Note: Find my posts right away (with cleaner formatting!) on wordsofstargirl.wordpress.com. The Spanish version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It” just wasn’t doing it for me. It carried the same tune but translated to “If you’re really happy, clap like this.” And yet I kept glancing up from my phone, where I was...
Read More26/01/2019
Joana Mouzinho
2019-02-03
It is Saturday afternoon and I find myself aimlessly walking towards a very concrete goal. Suddenly a very peculiar sense of overwhelmingness hits me: one which, although interiorized, has not become less surreal nonetheless. The body and identity within which I conduct and which helps me carry on my day to day tasks is 18...
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A Listen Into my Life
Sundhya Alter
2019-02-03
7am: “I’m Into Something Good” by the bird and the bee Every morning I wake up to frost covering the window, the banging of pots and pans coming from the kitchen and if i’m lucky a view of the mountains just outside my window. As I am the last one in my family to get...
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From my Journal, 13th December 2018
Sophia Youngdahl
2019-02-02
Teranga. I feel as though I am surrounded in warmth. I know I am as sweat careens down my cheek, making pathways in the light dusting of sand that has laid there to rest from its windy whereabouts. It is more than that simple, easily defined warmth, however; it is a peculiar one, a delectable...
Read MoreWhat I Understand
Anna Denniston
2019-02-01
Some afternoons, when our mom kicks us out of the house and tells us to go play, my younger brother and I will trudge up the road and then off into the woods, where there is a waterless river we like to walk in. We slowly bumble our way along the riverbed, searching for nice-looking...
Read MoreGap Year in Senegal Re: Your blog update!
Peter Dull
2019-02-01
Hello! As some of you know, I am in Senegal, West Africa until April. That means that I may not be able to respond to you immediately. Please give me some time until I read your email and respond. However, if this message is urgent and needs to be responded immediately, please consider these options....
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10 Things I am Thankful for in Ecuador (and Will Inevitably Miss when I Return to the U.S.)
Jeffrey Fishman
2019-01-31
It has been awhile since I last posted to my blog, and I don’t really have a good excuse. Honestly, I have just been trying to soak up every moment of my life here in Ecuador, and I lost track of time. Through the good days, and even the bad ones, I try to stay...
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Dear Ecuador
Joseph Brett
2019-01-31
Dear Ecuador, You have taught me more than I even thought you would. I can not thank you enough for showing me the people and places that I now love. You have provided the space that I needed this year to develop into the person I am today. With each new day I wake up...
Read MoreWhat shopping in India has taught me
Sophia Alfaro
2019-01-31
Patience: it takes time to find the “perfect” sari, have a custom blouse stitched for it, finding matching jewelry and a petticoat that will work. Stamina: I spent over 10 hours one day walking and shopping the busy streets of the city of Pune, India, with my host family. I’m proud to say I kept...
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