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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Ethan Gomes
2018-08-25
Leaving Home In exactly a week now I will boarding a plane for one heck of long flight all the way to Brazil. One thing I know for sure at this moment is that the stress is real. I mean in the past week I have been asked countless times if I'm nervous or...
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Follow the White Chacos
Sundhya Alter
2018-08-25
This blog post is coming to you from Gate number 5 at the Minneapolis international airport. Initially I was thinking about writing my first blog post from home as sort of a goodbye to a place I wouldn’t come back to until April and all the things I would miss. But I decided against it...
Read MoreLAST DAY IN MA
Manuel Quesada Nylen
2018-08-25
Today is the last day I am in Massachusetts for 9 months. It feels good knowing that I’m going away, despite the nerves and anxiety that come with a trip of this magnitude. I’ve anticipated these feelings of anxiety by enjoying my time here in my comfort zone, so now that I’m leaving I can’t...
Read MoreBut I Will
Anna Denniston
2018-08-25
I went to get my duffel out of my mom’s trunk this morning and found a box of halloween lights, and a unopened bottle of fall-colored sprinkles in there too. These will no doubt be used on the sugar cookies we make at my sister’s annual halloween party. There will also be pigs in...
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On your marks…
Giovanna Hunsrao
2018-08-25
Reporting for Duty – Senegal fellow 2019. Which one? Simple. The one who runs to her vaccinations 2 days before her flight and still hasn’t stuffed her soul with Dim sum that’s who. I’m Giovanna, and you may know me for that or much more than that. Here, I want to add an extension to...
Read MoreLife is a Highway — It’s Okay to Pull Over
Peter Dull
2018-08-25
Throughout my life, I sat in the passenger seat of a vehicle operated by the expectations of society. In order to reach your destination safely and with guaranteed results, you behave like what you were instructed to and expedite your college degree by skipping out what the world offers around you. As a victim...
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Mi Aventura En Ecuador
Maddy Gibson
2018-08-24
¡Hola, y gracias por acompañarme en mi aventura! As some of you may know, spending a year in Ecuador before heading to college has not always been my plan. In fact, it was a fairly last minute change-of-plans. Let’s start at the beginning. My whole life, my parents have done a...
Read MoreThe Little Marta (my first blog)
Marta Shcharbakova
2018-08-24
Once, there was a girl. A girl with brown eyes and brown hair called Marta. Of course, the girl knew a bit more than nothing about the world, so she often used a word ‘little’ to describe herself. ‘Little’ was about her overall knowledge, the significance of her existence, however, it didn’t apply to her...
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A Car on a Street in a Town
Siera Sadowski
2018-08-24
Rain patters onto the window of my car and streaks down in grayish hues, racing towards the tiny crevice where glass meets steel. Each drop is reflected back on to my outstretched arm, and it creates a beautiful design that no tattoo could compare to. I could sit there and watch the shifting patterns...
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Pre-Departure Non-Jitters
Anna Sophie Tinneny
2018-08-24
Everyone expects me to be nervous, but I’m not. In two days, I leave my home in suburban Philadelphia for a week long leadership training course with 150 other teens in San Francisco. After that, we break into four groups to fly to our respective future homes for the next 8 months. In my case,...
Read MoreWild World Awaits
Avry Richter
2018-08-24
Howdy! A happy hello to you from the homestead in Colorado! Peepings from my window in this moment: The cacophony of locusts warming the world Wind speaking through charms from my porch A hazed out sky that has no room for stars or light to peak through An abandoned cat that taunts my dogs with...
Read MoreThe First One
Sintra Nichols
2018-08-24
Welcome everyone! I expect the bulk of my audience for this blog to be Minnesotans or Wisconsinites from whom I’m not yet separated by thousands of miles; those I don’t quite miss yet because I see them at family functions, at work, on social media, etcetera. There’s not much to miss yet. I live in...
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