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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GCY saved my life
Veronica Barrera
2018-08-27
The day is May 8th, it's 8:30 a.m and I’m sitting next to my marketing team in my entrepreneur class. The day was slow, everyone in class was eating their bacon egg and cheeses or playing fortnite on their computers meanwhile I was researching my own death with the army. I always knew I didn't want...
Read MoreStep Up, Step Back, Lean In
Rebecca Rose
2018-08-26
I used to think senioritis was a joke. I used to think that my burning yearning curiosity, my insatiable hunger for knowledge, and passion for understanding would never fade, could never fade. And then I hit senior year. Years of school work–standardized tests, SATs, ACTs, APs, and GPAs, every acronym that sought to reduce...
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Marco Barracchia
2018-08-26
The last two years at UCW have taught me how important it is to strive for the best, to help others, to be the best version I could be. UWC is a place that made me live and feel, and then thrown me into the real world, without a guide on how to go through...
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Starting again
Pamela Martinez
2018-08-26
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard about mercury retrograde but after this summer I definitely believe in it. As Wikipedia shortly explains, it is a period of time in which (haha srsly I don’t remember the scientific reason – I am an artsy person, haha) everything related to communications and technology just...
Read MoreOff The Beaten Path
Ara Vickers
2018-08-26
Today, I am embarking on the journey of a lifetime. I am taking my first substantial steps towards the passions that have been resonating within me since I was a sagacious eight year old, curiously flipping through 1980’s zoology textbooks. My great love for animals, combined with my desire to learn from experience,...
Read MoreThe Beginning
Rutendo Magade
2018-08-26
Five hours before my flight to San Francisco. I’m sitting in a quiet restaurant at the airport. I found a nice corner where I am quite hidden from everyone else. I left home about 15 hours ago, and it’s funny to think that I am not going to see my parents and my three little...
Read MoreSome Notes on Leaving to Return
Ariella Brodie-Weisberg
2018-08-25
To my friends and family, In thinking about leaving for Brazil, I have thought a lot about running away. Running away from Oakland, from the tough persona I developed in high school. Running from parts of my life that I didn’t know how to process or sit in. I thought I didn’t know how...
Read MoreUm Peixe Amarelo
Elani Teklehaimanot
2018-08-25
In the last two years I lived in UWC Dilijan, an international boarding school in Armenia. There I met many friends from all over the world and got to know about Global Citizen Year. One of my closest friend there is Brazilian and he used to show me a bunch of music from Brazil- which...
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El hasta pronto de Costa Rica y el principio de Brasil. The see you soon of Costa Rica and the beginning of Brazil.
Mauro Ramirez-Azofeifa
2018-08-25
Hoy no es un día cualquiera, hoy es un día importante, ¿por qué? Porque es el cumpleaños de mi amada madre y además porque el día de hoy a las 5:00pm despega mi vuelo para los Estados Unidos hacía el estado de California en donde voy a estar primeramente por una semana en la Universidad...
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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...
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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Blog Post #1
Stephanie Duarte-Pedrosa
2018-08-23
My laundry is finished. My bag is packed. My room is almost clean. I leave in three days. Eek! I have never had a blog before and it took me a long time to figure out what exactly I wanted for this blog. Three days ago, I bought my first DSLR, with the goal...
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