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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Cher Xiong
2019-09-01
In George Ella Lyon’s poem I Am From, Lyon was able to recreate a sense of what her home was like. Being at orientation week, I felt quite homesick. I felt the yearn to be with my parents and the things I was familiarized with. After reading Lyon’s poem, she inspired me to think about...
Read MoreA new era
Geraldo Sibinde
2019-08-31
I have decide to take this bridge year in order to see the challenges that other nations are facing, but I did not know from where to start and if I was prepared to live in a foreign country, I have lived in a foreign country but, would not be the same thing because now...
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Dear Future
Nancy Ngutete
2019-08-31
Dear future, I have always wanted to know what you hold. As a matter of fact, we all wish we knew what’s going to happen next, how things are going to be tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, what we are going to be in ten years to come, etc. I am one of...
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5 hours to lift-off
Torai Ruddy Hoey
2019-08-31
True to form, I’ve procrastinated doing this first blog post until just about the last second I could. We’re leaving for country, which is Brazil for me, in just under five hours, and not only are my clothes still in a messy pile on the floor, my mind’s pretty all over the place...
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Just Another Blog
Andromeda Yahoudy-Macner
2019-08-31
8/27/19 I’m by no means the most creative or fantastic writer as you will see, but I do spend a good majority of my time reflecting through my writing. I often write when I’m sad or anxious and have no other means of coping with those feelings. Now, for Brazil, the real topic of conversation....
Read MorePre-trip Time Capsule
Daming Cui
2019-08-31
All kinds of emotions swirl in my brain, changing by the minute: excitement, apprehension, nostalgia, euphoria, curiosity, determination, turmoil and peace mixed with a strange, hollow gust of emptiness. I imagine myself, digging through my blurred memories and trying to remember this jumble of wanderlust as I face the ocean waves while stars shimmer in...
Read MoreThe Hike of Omens
M'Chaelah Brown
2019-08-30
As we were walking down the winding path of the hiking trail I found myself captivated on the ground. Focused on not tripping over long tree roots, raised sand, or stepping off the trail and risking all of the “bad things”. Including ticks, poison oak, and others. 15 minutes in I realized that I never...
Read MoreAugust 29th 2019. Global Launch
Alejandra Altamirano
2019-08-30
[ I have seen and thought about so many things this week that my words wouldn’t be enough. I decided to share some of it in pictures even though I also know much of what I would like to put out there cannot be easily captured or perceived. ] It is certainly hard to start...
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The Beginning, Again
Roger Burtonpatel
2019-08-30
So- first blog, etc. etc., here we are. The last two weeks have been a wonderful whirlwind of bonding, introspection, serious talking, late nights, dumb jokes, and a whole lotta exploration, in every sense. GCY and Tufts training are very much the same- and yet somehow… different; it's hard to describe how. I feel a...
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Why?
Jamyang Choden
2019-08-30
This is a photo taken during global launch in Stanford. I thought a lot about what my first blog should be about. Many ideas popped up, but I always came back to sharing the main reasons why I was going for a gap year instead of heading to college. So welcome to my first blog...
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The East Grand Rapids Bubble
Emily Nelson
2019-08-30
Photo: Making new friends at the Global Launch (with Sophia Miller, Senegal Cohort) When I grew up, I played outside. I used my time to climb every tree in the neighborhood, escape the soap in my mother’s hand when I said ill-mannered phrases such as “that’s stupid,” race my sister’s to the community pool on...
Read MoreNever let your schooling interfere with your education
Malaika Nikiema
2019-08-30
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education” is a quote from Mark Twain that really speaks to me because it is something that I have been trying to explain to my family and friends back home in Burkina Faso. As some of them got the fact that all the learning those not happen behind...
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