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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What Have I Learned?
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-22
What have I learned?I don’t have to keep being polite to men who are rude to me. There is often no need to be in a hurry. Energy and love are two of the most important qualities within my identity. Don’t always expect other people to be thinking the same way you are. Family can...
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MY HYDERABAD COMMUNITY
Brandon Richards
2019-05-22
Vidhur, Niveditha, & Inder Vidhur & Rigs Ferna Zooni Momar Luciana Inaara Jack Ashley Jaime Alana (& Momar again)
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Pictures From My Year
Ara Vickers
2019-05-21
>>The view from outside my host-nephews 2nd bday party. >> My family and I on our way to a party >> The view I had every day >> Barra Beach >> Climbing trees on a retreat with GCY >> Cris, Gabriella, and Eunzo >> In the streets of Curitiba >> W/ host fam at my...
Read MoreAshata Kashkaman
Selena Harris
2019-05-21
Ashata Kashkaman, I will see you soon. Beyond oceans, hermanita, you will stay with me Your mother that held me deeply se vive en mi mundo. She reminds me, my sister, that the mind is maleable, todo se cambia You will stay with me, mi familia, for all you have taught me, I will teach...
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Wannabe Poacher Assasin
Ara Vickers
2019-05-21
When I was a kid I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up: an assassin of poachers (the hunter of the hunters if you will). I hadn’t actually ever considered the assassination part, all I was sure of was it was my life mission to stop people from murdering lions, tigers,...
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The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful
Maddy Gibson
2019-05-21
*My experience has been complex, unique, and in no way a full representation of Ecuador, South America, or Latino culture as a whole.<3 “How was it?” “What is Ecuador like?” “Are you glad you went?” “Was it fun?” The answer I will most likely give will be something along the lines of: “It was incredible!”...
Read Moreat a loss
Sophia Youngdahl
2019-05-21
Being back here brings with it a strange sort of serendipity; the type that creeps into my mind in fleeting moments and instills within me a feeling of closure. Most times, however, it seems as though I am grasping at memories that are slipping through my hands like sand. It frustrates me to no end;...
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The Day Before Leaving Home
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
This is the blog I wrote in a Boston hotel room while sitting next to my mom; we were watching the Whitney Houston movie "The Bodyguard" together. I was about to fly out to California the next morning, where I'd meet the GCY cohort and finally begin this whole adventure. I never ended up posting...
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Some Of My Favorite Videos & Photos (pt.2)
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
Touba-Toul.JPG Pire.jpg Khady Diop tryna kill me.MOV good day in dakar.JPG Clouds.JPG EKTU7047.JPG family.JPG Boys on Bikes.MOV
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Some Of My Favorite Photos & Videos
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
Boys w Flowers (Mohammed&Cheikh2).JPG Workspace in Goree.JPG Yellow Building In Goree.jpg Flowers.JPG Khady&Mami.JPG Khady's Favorite Flowers.jpg Maimona.JPG Massaer.MOV Khady Painting.JPG Ami Killin it .JPG Buuba.JPG Pink&Yellow.JPG Djilli's Papaya.MP4 Moustapha.JPG Boys w Flowers (Mohammed&Cheikh).JPG Boys w Flowers.JPG Massaer.m4a
Read MoreSongs Significant To Me In Senegal
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jMS6xs5TL33GjzVYC3fOK
Read MoreAn Act Of Love
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
An act of kindness in a time where I was feeling really low was when my host father taught me how to make his attaya (tea). The day before, I had just lost something very important to me; something that I had really defined my year for me up to that point. And one of...
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