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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My mom, a culture of her own
Ariella Brodie-Weisberg
2019-03-19
The way I am Debora’s daughter is nothing like I am my mother’s daughter. In California I am the daughter of a woman who has seen me develop since birth, who can pull memories like tarot cards that explain the confusions I often bring to her. I’m an intense kid, she’s an intense woman. She...
Read MoreMy Personal Impasse
David Jiang
2019-03-13
MY PERSONAL IMPASSE Since coming to Brazil and working at R3 Animal , I am constantly confronted with the challenging irony that is my relationship to animals and the environment. As much as I am fascinated by wildlife (it was the first “encyclopedic passion” that I had) and fostered a great love for nature and...
Read MoreJudaism
Natalie Glick
2019-03-12
Everyday I take the bus to and from the school I work at. I have a bus I take in the mornings which is suppose to come at 8:55, and going back home in the afternoon I take the 4:55 bus home. Over the past six months of riding the bus I have become friendly...
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#1 Blog
Luke Field
2019-03-11
Wow, I cant believe that we have all already reached March of 2019. It seems like just a bit ago we were all still in San Francisco. If there is one thing I have learned while being abroad, it is that time goes fast. Even in the moments when I didn’t want to be here,...
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ABOUT TIME…
Tenzin Gyalmo
2019-03-11
[image: IMG_1616.jpeg] *Image 1. Laguna (Learning Seminar 2)* Hello people. I went MIA there for a bit, didn’t I? It’s March and I can confidently say that I have finally mapped out my daily routine here. You are right, it is about time isn’t it? I mean I have been here 7 months, but 7...
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Blending In
Danielle Katz
2019-03-06
I wrote this blog in October, never posting it, wanting to know where my observations would go: “Two men frantically yelling ‘Mattheus’ and ‘Lucas’ up and down the street stop me while I’m walking to the bus. They explain that they have a meeting with these two others, but don’t have an exact address, hoping...
Read MoreWhat I Did, and What it Cost!
Sara Ahlich
2019-03-03
Global Citizen Year offers 15 days of independent travel during the months of December to February. It may not seem like much, but you can do so much in those two weeks! My independent travel have definitely been highlights of my year – it’s nice to get out of the routine and see new parts...
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Day(s) in the Life
Sara Ahlich
2019-03-03
My schedule has changed up quite a bit since the beginning, as has my mindset on my GCY year. Correlation? I think yes. The following was my schedule from September to December. – 7am to 10am: wake up naturally, as my job starts late and is a 30-second walk from my house. Have breakfast –...
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The Basics of GCY Brazil
Sara Ahlich
2019-03-02
Global Citizen Year is a program that gives the Fellows lots of support – not only through staff, but also by providing a large group of students who are experiencing similar things. However, the many variables involved (host family, apprenticeship, language, location, fellow, etc.) ensure that every GCY gap year experience is it’s own, and...
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September
Averielle Van Horne
2019-02-19
I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written in...
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September
Averielle Van Horne
2019-02-16
> I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written...
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