Fellow Stories
True gap year stories from Fellows abroad!
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Conto (de) Meu Voto
Eugene Henninger-Voss
2016-11-07
The worst thing that has happened to me since I arrived in Brazil happened in the US. Somehow, the York County office never received my absentee ballot request, and I will not be able to vote. I did what I was supposed to do, but I still can’t vote. Which means whatever happens, I’m not...
Read MoreWhen the pictures you take and the house you live in isn’t what the website showed.
Angus Larsen
2016-11-07
Since the very first day I arrived at my new host family, I noticed that this was a starkly different scene I was walking up to. The large gate I stood outside of, waiting to open, sat 10 meters from the busy mainstreet that ran along the beautiful Lagoa de Conceição, where we had passed...
Read MoreA Few Days Too Many
Amanda Hawks
2016-10-28
It was 10 A.M when I woke up on Saturday and heard a familiar voice coming from my front yard. I knew that my best friend, Alondra, had planned on coming over that day, but she also said she was going to wait for me to call her, so I asked myself why in the...
Read MoreI miss autumn and I have successfully surprised myself at how much Ilove blogging.
Angus Larsen
2016-10-28
I woke up to a surprisingly cold (weather-wise) reminder that it was my birthday. For a split-second I felt like it was home because the shiver as I woke reminded me of autumn, except here it is spring. I also woke up to an unfamiliar site for someone like me at this time of the...
Read MoreAll of Me Here
Makenzie Leigh Meacham
2016-10-26
After work, I examine the small cuts adorning my fingers. Tiny nicks made in Brazil look no different than ones made in Arizona. Sometimes I have to laugh at how I spent a year dicing up produce so I could afford to go to Brazil to dice up fish. Other times, I look out over...
Read MoreWhat stays the same, doesn’t do so for too long.
Angus Larsen
2016-10-25
It has been two weeks since I moved in with my new host family, but there has been much more that has come along with that. It feels as though my whole routine here has now made a 180 degree turn and there is much more on the exterior to observe and write about, so...
Read MoreJudgement Day
Eugene Henninger-Voss
2016-10-22
A couple weeks ago a student at the acting class I help out with asked me what the differences were between Brazilians and Americans, and I told her that I didn’t know enough Brazilians to know. Then last week one of my co-workers, André, asked me a very similar question – what are the differences...
Read MoreAmar sem palavras
Alondra Quiles
2016-10-22
I have a super cool 8 year old host brother by the name: Ignacio. Ignacio has big, bright, blue eyes and really long eyelashes. No lie, the longest lashes I have ever seen in my life. But Ignacio is a little special, because he isn’t your average 8 year old boy. He can’t talk. He...
Read MoreOverthinking My Overthinking
Sophia Carroll
2016-10-22
I spend a lot of time thinking about time. I remember before I left home I worried I would revert to “countdown mode” too much–a tactic I’ve used a lot at summer camp or during long erg pieces where I think about how much time have left and then think back to how long ago...
Read MoreBackground
Christopher Iba
2016-10-20
Oi e bem-vindo! (Hi and welcome!) My name is Chris Iba and welcome to my blog! To give you some background on me, I am a high school graduate who wanted to do something different with my life, something unconventional. However, this was not always what I wanted to do. Four years ago, I was...
Read More1st World Problems; 3rd World Blessings in Disguise
Alondra Quiles
2016-10-18
It’s not often that you’ll find yourself at home without electricity, and yet when it does, it seems as though our world is falling apart. Why is that? See, I decided to take a bridge year in the country of Brazil. Not knowing anything and not knowing what to expect. The idea of a...
Read MoreChange of Scenery, Change of Mind
Angus Larsen
2016-10-10
Oi pessoal! Wow, the last few weeks, let alone days, have been busy. There has been much to learn, not only about the community that surrounds me during my time here in Brasil, but about myself too, and how exactly I fit into the scheme of things here. For those of you who didn’t know,...
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