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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December 17th. Açaí, suco de cana, pão de queijo…
Alejandra Altamirano
2019-12-17
Hi! Halfway through, so many things to be thankful for… but today I’m going to share with you a bit about food and how it has been a very important and delicious part of my experience. Some new things, as the açaí, the pão de queijo and suco de cana, some food I’ve made from...
Read MoreGrowth
Blessing Ajayi
2019-12-16
About a week ago made 100 days in Brazil. 92 days more than I’ve ever spent away from D.C. Naturally, people are always asking what I’m doing. They want to know how I’ve spent my 15 and weeks growing and having a life changing experience. The funny thing about life changing experience is that they...
Read MoreFinding My Home
Andromeda Yahoudy-Macner
2019-12-15
Recently we got our “halfway there” surveys and I realized that I had blogs to write. Now I only have to do a couple, but nevertheless I know I can’t put them off forever. Well let’s see. I’ve been just sorta living it up with the beaches and surfing. I’m no doubt the worst in...
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The True Bridge-Year Experience
Malaika Nikiema
2019-12-08
Coming in Brazil, 3 months ago, I had a lot of goals: become a surfista*, dance samba, interact a lot with Afro-Brazilians and by now I should have been totally fluent in Portuguese. This is what actually happened. September:: I live on a mostly white island so I do not get to see a lot...
Read Morepart of the only diary that i ever kept
Sofia Dragoti
2019-12-07
Μέσω 7 September 2019 Dear Diary, today everyone is going to their host families. But my family was very close to the area that we were our first week here, so I went by car. Because I was waiting for everyone to leave I eat 2 times breakfast. I know its weird, but why not?...
Read MorePiece by Piece
Daming Cui
2019-12-01
3 months in! It’s difficult not to synchronize your heart with the local vibrations as you arrive at a new place and open yourself to embrace your surroundings. The Portuguese language has complicated, beautiful subtleties in itself: sometimes concise, sometimes expressive, sometimes witty and sometimes melancholic (or, more accurately, filled with ~saudade). I first fell...
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New blog post
Annika Berezney
2019-11-14
Aloha, I checked my blog and my first blog that I had sent in is unfortunately not posted, below is a copy along with my second blog post. Please also add the six photos attached to my second blog. Thank you for your time, Annika First blog post: Aloha, ...
Read MoreEvery little thing can make your day
Aisha Kothari
2019-11-08
Attachment available until Dec 8, 2019 Every little thing can make your day The smiles The boy who every time I see him makes a heart with his hands The hugs The smiles! (I know I already said that:) The laughs The kisses on your hand The waves with the smiles!! The “beleza” greeting hand...
Read MoreNovember 11th 2019. Palavrinhas 101
Alejandra Altamirano
2019-11-05
Hello! It’s been some time, we are now finishing our second month in-country starting to feel a bit more settled as we start the third. Time seems to fly. Most of what once was very new is getting to be usual now and as a good example might be the language. Portuguese was not a...
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Apprenticeship
Geraldo Sibinde
2019-10-24
Apprenticeship, the position of an apprentice,studentship, initiation, trial period, different dictionary definitions. And we may say it's a kind of a volunteer work we are doing abroad, and it will in some way impact us and the community we are. Sometimes is not what we wanted, which makes it more interesting I think, because life...
Read MoreSeptember 18th 2019. First weeks in country
Alejandra Altamirano
2019-10-16
‘18 de Setiembre 2019’ Reading time/ tiempo de lectura aprox: 10 min or less it depends on how fast you read friend! -Español abajo- It is now 19 days after writing the first blog, 26 days since I left Costa Rica, a week and some more days of living with my host family and to...
Read MoreFROM BANOMANOM TO BRAZIL
Ian Porterfield
2019-10-14
When I applied for Global Citizen Year (GCY) in November of 2018, the first question they posed was to describe a hypothetical Youtube video of mine that had just reached its one-millionth view; “What is the video about and what is your role in it,” they inquired. With enthusiasm and humor, I responded that the...
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