Fellow Stories

The Girl Who Doesn’t Know Anything

Henrietta Conrad

2012-04-26

On one hand I wanted to keep my dignity. I’m proud of education I’ve received and I feel like I’ve always taken advantages of opportunities to expand my mind. On the other hand, he was right, I was here in Brazil to learn and learning is a humbling experience especially when that learning is in the school of life.

God’s Children we are.

Albamarina Nahar

2012-04-26

Walking home after work I have always been noticing “tudos as crianças em na rua brincando”.  But not with regular toys that one would buy at Toys R’Us back in the States. Most of the kids I see playing around create games out of bottle caps.  They have so much fun flicking the bottle caps...

Meu avo, dexia li!

Albamarina Nahar

2012-04-26

My host grandmother is the sweetest person ever.  She is like the grandma of my street.  She will tell the kids on my street to take showers or to be careful jumping around.  She will give at least $5 R to our visino (neighbor). She will make sure I have eaten more than twice. She cares...

Onibus, my own personal Amusement Park

Albamarina Nahar

2012-04-26

Everywhere I go, eu pego Onibus, (I take the bus).  Now there is a difference of the bus in Boston and Bahia.  You don’t enter from the front, you enter from the back here.  I live in Piraja and take the Conjunction Piraja bus which is never empty.  You have to literally fight to get...

The Beginning of a Journey

Karina Rodriguez

2012-04-26

Life, the universe, gives us things when we are ready, how we maneuver through these gifts is our own obstacle. There are moments in my life where I feel alive in every part of my body, where there is a pain in my stomach and heart, where I feel like the wind has been kicked...

Stuck Between a First World and a Third World Country

Mariah Donnelly

2012-04-25

Out of all three of the countries that Global Citizen Year takes students (the other two being Senegal and Ecuador) Brasil is by far the most developed. I think it would be pretty safe to say that two countries previously mentioned fall pretty well into the third world category, but what about Brasil? Where does...

A Natural Apprenticeship

Holli Sullivan

2012-04-25

 A Natural Apprenticeship   I always knew I was a child of the universe. I was born on the beach. Like, literally, the hospital was on a hill overlooking the ocean. From the beach I went to live in the countryside for 2 years. From there I went to live the better part of my...

A Story of Success

Mariah Donnelly

2012-04-25

How do you create a solution to a problem? Where do you start? How do you fund something so grandiose when the government refuses to give you money, and these days giving money to non-profits has become synonymous with “fueling corruption”. It’s easy to come up with a thousand reasons not to do something, but...

On the Side of the River

Holli Sullivan

2012-04-09

On the side of the river where all my dreams are realized. where all the things I have wanted in my life are in my hands. and all the things that I will ever want they also are mine. River, teach me to love with all my heart. teach me to accept everything in my...

The Price Free Spirits Pay

Holli Sullivan

2012-04-09

The Price Free Spirits Pay   Traveling the world has various costs. We all know this now. There are passport and visa costs, plane tickets, and baggage fees. Then comes accommodation, food, and transportation. And what about souvenirs? How ‘bout that $200 guided hiking tour that you just have to go on? Maybe a few...

Explaining the Unexplainable

Mariah Donnelly

2012-03-30

America is not perfect.  I would say that almost universally Americans would agree that this statement rings true.  Just ask an American about recent politics and when you hear just a long moaning noise you will know what I am talking about.  But what is easy for Americans to see isn’t always so easy for...

A Shot of My Brazil

Antonio Peluso

2012-03-30