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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Ethan Gomes
2019-06-02
Re entry training So re entry training was a unique thing like you come back to the U.S. finally after 8 months of a trip and like all some of us wanted to do was go home. But we had to stay one more week with the global cohort in a camp in the woods...
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Ethan Gomes
2019-06-02
Final week in Brazil The last week of the crazy long 8 month gap year. It was a week in the same hotel we stayed in our first week in Brazil and it was pretty cool. You see the first hotel we stayed at had the BEST food. So to know we would be back...
Read MoreDay to Day
Sintra Nichols
2019-06-02
Completely aware of the fact that blog-writing isn’t my strongest method of sharing my experience, I’ve neglected it a bit throughout the real meat-and-potatoes portion of my gap year. Also aware of the fact that I owe my ever-supportive friends and family the opportunity to learn about my time here, this blog will be as...
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Ethan Gomes
2019-06-02
This was week one of Brazil during a pride parade. It was my first ever pride event and I saw this dude cruising around in a condom costume. Of course there was no other option except to score a picture with this dude. I executed the picture and even some random ass people joined in...
Read MoreThe Bus Blog
Sintra Nichols
2019-06-02
On the 45-minute Caieira da Barra do Sul bus route southward from my host house to the bottom of the island, there’s a view of the calm water between the island and the continent. Over the water you can see the hills of the mainland layered over each other with shades of blue or green, depending...
Read MoreI bet it makes you grateful…
Sintra Nichols
2019-06-01
“I bet it makes you grateful to live in America!” Why do people keep saying this to me? I’m constantly, and expectedly asked “How was Brazil?” to which I give whatever awkward, short, and unthought-out attempt to summarize my year comes out first. And then the adult, always the fully-grown adult, replies with some version...
Read MoreLive From The Field
Ethan Gomes
2019-06-01
Daily Life of a Seminar Seminars are a gigantic part of the global citizen year life. Basically throughout the 8 months of the Gap year your whole country cohort gets together in either...
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missing home
Lynn Drescher
2019-06-01
There seem to be no words to describe the feeling of being back. The sadness occupying my mind and heart has had to make space for thoughts about the present and coming days, but its heaviness remains unchanged. However, I begin to feel something sprouting from exactly this yearning for my little Brazilian home: warm gratefulness, nourished by the painful yet happy remembrance...
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A letter to future me & thank you notes
Ida Nydelius
2019-06-01
Dear Ida, Right now, we are about to graduate from Global Citizen Year (actually just a few minutes away from the deadline hehe), the program which decided to send us to Brazil (instead of Ecuador) – a decision that shaped our gap year with samba tunes, children’s happiness, and teachers’ struggles. I hope...
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tchau tchau
Giselle Esquer
2019-05-31
As my chapter with GCY comes to an end, I’ve had the opportunity to finally reflect about my growth from beginning to end. For my capstone project I shared a presentation at my old high school. I stood in the same spot of my english class where I had given my end of the year...
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