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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Golden Earth
Avry Richter
2018-12-20
Hello! It has been some time! Some time to feel, to live, to breathe in the sweet air of this country. With this I will be doing a series of blog posts that address the elements that aid in our existence and that define my surroundings! Earth, wind, water, and fire! Each holding meaning and...
Read Morewhat ever do i do now?
Ellie Van Gorden
2018-12-19
i asked myself a version of this question right around the time i got rejected from college last year and was in need of a serious pep-talk. at that time, my answer was “go change the world”. now, my answer is the same, but my perspective is *quite* different. although my physical world has expanded,...
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Arts in the Andes
Selena Harris
2018-12-19
Time sure does fly here like it’s nobody’s business. While I wish I possessed the sheer motivation to blog all that I have been writing, unfortunately life moves just a little too fast for me to keep up. So I am here with this quick blog to share what I have been pouring a lot...
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Between the Lines
Laura Harvey
2018-12-18
In taking a gap year, I made the decision to learn by looking up. For a nerd like me, admitting that you can’t learn everything with your nose in a book can be painful. Admittedly, I would still dive straight into a library if I were looking for nuclear theories or a chronology of the...
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Escritos
Sophie Auvin
2018-12-18
Middles: I have a theory all middles are the same. All the nowheres filled with flat fields and sparse trees. Where roads cut through rocks still bearing the marks of the earth. With grazing cows and muddy rivers. The spaces between are carbon copies of each other. Driving in the nowhere, I can be...
Read MoreA Christmas Wishlist
Sophie Meltzer
2018-12-17
For the past month, my little host sister Rafaela has been counting down the days until Christmas. Each day she comes into my room, asks me what the date is, and proceeds to tell me how many days until Papa Noel (Santa Claus) is going to come, and what she wants him, and me, to...
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A Senegalese Room of My Own
Phoebe Shea Perez
2018-12-17
These are pictures of my room in its afternoon glory of a surprisingly soothing Saturday in Touba Toul. This was the first day my room here felt like my room. That morning I had gone to work against my own will – I’m always afraid to go on Saturdays when we have the weekly market...
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Finding clarity through nature
Elena Blanco
2018-12-17
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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La Lluvia
Sarah Jane Jimenez
2018-12-15
It is the beginning of December, which means I have been here in Ecuador for about 3 months. To accurately express how my time here has been, I have found, is very difficult. However, what I have found is that la lluvia (the rain) has an interesting way of explaining my story. In Ecuador, there...
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At Peace with Clichés
Danielle Katz
2018-12-14
[image: image.png] It’s the intricacies in the ways our minds process the world. The mannerisms that you can’t express to other people, because your circuit is way too personal to be articulated, and you could never do it justice. But, more beautiful than being able to express your own peculiarities is when someone else does...
Read MoreHow Do You Catch Your Rats?
Elizabeth Farrell
2018-12-14
We’ve all been there – Minding our own business and going about our lives, when out of the corner of our eyes we spot something move. Something small, and relatively fast. Without putting any thought to it, you whip your head in its direction only to have your suspicions confirmed. What you saw in your...
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I’ve Moved!
Macy Lipkin
2018-12-13
Hi everyone! Due to technical difficulties with the GCY site, I’ve moved all of my posts to my personal blog, *https://wordsofstargirl.wordpress.com *. There, you can find my old posts, plus the one I sent in on November 14 that never went up. Check it out! Subscribe to my WordPress by clicking the “Follow” button in...
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