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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Snapshots From Salvador, Bahia
Amari Leigh
2017-07-13
After an exciting experience in the magical city of Rio de Janiero, we boarded the plane to another one of Brazil's most prized metropolises-Salvador, the capital city of Bahia. Below are some highlights from the five days we spent in this colorful city! Formerly the capital of Portugal’s New World colony from 1549 to 1763,...
Read MoreWhen Foreign Cuisines Enter Brazil’s Border
Will Kosling
2017-06-04
Brazilians have a way of making their food look undeniably brazilian. Whether it’s adding way to much sugar to coffee or putting meat in literally everything, in spite of the fact that it may be a vegetarian dish. This dish may look as familiar to you as it does foreign, but maybe the...
Read Morethe foundation of Brazilian culture
Will Kosling
2017-06-04
Sitting at the very base of Brazilian culture: food, seemingly simple, yet it has a strong ability to bring people together. Much of Brazil’s cultural diversity derives from it’s epic diversity of cuisine throughout different regions of the country. Food in Brazil contrasts drastically from North to South. This dish, pictured...
Read MoreA Família de meu Coração
Will Kosling
2017-06-04
It should come as no surprise that one of the largest influences during my bridge year was my Brazilian host family, the Pereira’s. My host family, host parents especially, are a very traditional family who ran a local bakery for the past 24 years.. My host parents were both born and raised in the community...
Read More“Educado” vs Educated
Fernanda Tornell
2017-06-02
I am currently in the process of applying somewhere (where is not important in this context) and in order to get in I had to write an essay. The essay required me to answer a couple of questions in less than 500 words, one of them being What is the role of education in your...
Read MoreHow have I changed?
Amanda Hawks
2017-06-01
Since I've come back, I've found myself thinking about this question a lot. I want to know if my attitude has changed, or even if little things about me have changed since I've gotten back from Brazil, and I've had this conversation with a lot of people. I think the simple answer is that yes,...
Read MoreReflection
Christopher Iba
2017-06-01
After being back in the US for about 2 months I have had time to reflect on my journey and I just wanted to share a couple of my thoughts with you. I want to start off by saying that it is honestly hard to be back in Huntington Beach. The first few days were...
Read More3 Common Questions About My Time in Brazil
Amanda Hawks
2017-05-30
Did you learn Portuguese? This is suprisingly the most common question that I've gotten since I got back. My favorite answer is that I couldn't write a dissertation in Portuguese but I can have a conversation. I'm super proud of how much of the language I have picked up, but I also want to keep...
Read MoreReflections
Sophia Carroll
2017-05-19
It’s been a week since I got home from Brazil. It’s hard for me to even remember now what it was like to wake up in my bed, and sit on my couch watching The Voice Kids every Sunday, and spread doce de leite on my bread roll every evening, which could easily scare me...
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I wrote a journal…
Fernanda Tornell
2017-05-18
Its over! I am back from Brazil… Throughout my time there I decided to write a journal, I have never kept a journal or a diary before but since this experience was so unique and GCY encouraged it a lot I decided to try and write one. I did not religiously write every night before...
Read MoreWhere I’m Supposed To Be
Makenzie Leigh Meacham
2017-05-15
When you’ve been living on a tropical island for 8 months, playing with otters and eating cake every day, it’s difficult to get back into the swing of things when you return home. Right now I’m missing the torrents of rain, and eyeing the sparse dark clouds in the Arizona sky, daring them to give...
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