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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Canvases Painted with Tears
Paulina Jedrzejowski
2014-07-31
In three weeks I will be leaving for an adventure of a lifetime – Brazil. I have always dreamed about going to Brazil but I never thought I would be going there for eight months with a leadership development organization… Today I was reading through quotes as I do when I am bored or when...
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Prologue
Myriam Sitterson
2014-07-30
I believe that one of the greatest skills an artist possesses is his or her ability to make a flat surface look three-dimensional. It’s incredible, really. Right now, my knowledge of the world is largely two-dimensional. A lot of the time, I feel ignorant, shut-off, naive. Like I’ve grown up inside a box. A box...
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Five Thousand Mile Bridge
Nicholas Chieng
2014-07-30
Hello! My name is Nick Chieng; I am 18 years old and a graduate of Franklin High School’s class of 2014. “Half of the time I couldn’t understand what he was saying because he spoke with a thick accent, but immersed in the moment of it all, that didn’t even matter. There I was walking the...
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Juno Fullerton
2014-07-30
The “Six degrees of separation” theory is pretty simple. Originated by Frigyes Karinthy in the late 1920s, it suggests that every person on this earth is six or fewer steps away from another person. It suggests that no matter how far apart two people are in the world, it will take a maximum of six steps,...
Read MoreThe Next Step
Tyler Rivera
2014-07-10
“Where are you going to school?” “What are you majoring in?” “Where are you staying?” The sounds of senior year. While many of my classmates had answers to these questions, I didn’t. The only answers I was able to offer was simply, “I don’t know”. And that was the truth. I didn’t know. Until recently...
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Sweet Sugar Water
Zoe Rose Clarke
2014-05-12
First my host uncle bought some sugar cane. Then his sons and his wife scraped off the bark, stuck it through a hand crank machine, and his family and I watched as the liquid spurted into a pitcher. It was a pleasant afternoon. The juice was nice with some specks of rust. I was glad...
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The Students of COMBEMI make a . . .
Zoe Rose Clarke
2014-05-06
The citizenry teacher at COMBEMI decided to make a suspended garden with her 12-14 year old students during the fall semester of 2013. I was lucky enough to help the teacher and film the students throughout the process. There was always a bit of difficulty in motivating the students to work (I think the camera’s...
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And I’m back!
Edward Katz
2014-05-05
After an enormous amount of travel I am back with my family in Ithaca, NY. I am home! This last week I have actually been back in the US already, but far west in California with the rest of Global Citizen Year doing re-entry training. We spent the week going over how we felt about...
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A Clover for my Thoughts
Caroline Blackburn
2014-04-23
“I don’t know, Abby. Sometimes I really just don’t know if there’s really anyone out there looking out for me. I like to believe it sometimes, but I never get the guaranteed feeling that someone is going to reach out and catch me when I fall. You know?” After discovering with much disappointment that the...
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R3 Animal: A Video
Joanna Shieh
2014-04-23
This video was made in order to capture the beautiful work done at R3 Animal where I spent my 7 months in Brazil volunteering. R3 Animal is an NGO who’s mission is to Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Reintigrate wild animals into their habitat. This organisation has done so much for me. It has helped me grow, change,...
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R3 Animal: Playing With Owls
Joanna Shieh
2014-04-11
R3 Animal is an NGO that works to Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Reintegrate animals into their habitat. We work with animals such as penguins, parrots, macaws, monkeys, owls, and many more. http://en.r3animal.org.br Visit this website to learn more, as I don’t want to use this blog to bore you with the logistics, but entertain you with...
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Learn from you, learn from me
Thien Tran
2014-04-11
Ever since I’ve arrived in Joinville, I’ve been mentally struggling with the extent of religion within my host community. I can’t speak for most of the United States, but in my community back home, religion is a very private matter. Mostly everyone keeps their religion to themselves, never blatantly flaunting it. The difference between San...
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