Fellow Stories
True gap year stories from Fellows abroad!
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Levar água
Toni White
2011-03-08
Ok this shouldn’t be that bad Wait this might be harder than i thought No No there has to be an easier way. Yes, that’s what it is I’m doing it wrong This should work. Better Ah I feel pain again Ok I need a break Let’s look back and see how far I’ve gotten...
Read MoreLooking Beyond
Toni White
2011-02-25
As a group we often go into different communities as part of our exploration of beautiful buildings, composed of people who dress in designer clothes, to areas where homes are built on water or children are begging for money as a way to support their family income. Often times before leaving to go on our...
Read MoreA Thursday with my Flip cam
Meg Healy
2011-02-15
Last Thursday, with a full day ahead of me and an agreement from our last monthly meeting to step up efforts on the blog front, I set out to work with a flip camera in hand, ready to capture whatever the day had to offer. The footage is here, but without explanation of what viewers...
Read MoreHealth Agent
Karyn Miller
2011-02-10
I’ve never really had any interest in public health. I didn’t know anything about it—I knew that functional systems were in place in numerous countries but that they ran the risk of providing poor care or not having enough capacity. And so, while I marveled at the idea of free health care, the little I...
Read MoreBuilding a friendship without words
Toni White
2011-01-26
In this video Toni describes her relationship with her best friend, a relationship that has developed in the absence of spoken language altogether.
Read MoreJoselito Crispim
Michael Stivers
2011-01-14
Most of the time I truly enjoy Salvador. The life and energy of the city help justify my decision to defer college for a year. The almost scary hospitality has already guaranteed my return. That said, there are a lot of things that make me yearn for the culture that I grew up in and...
Read MoreEfficient Cookstoves in Brazil
Mariela Garcia
2011-01-12
Check out this short video post by Mariela from the site of her apprenticeship in Brazil where she is working to track and monitor the installation of wood-efficient cookstoves
Read MoreThe last of the Palafitas
Adam Horowitz
2011-01-11
Check out my video blog from one of the sites of my apprenticeship: As Palafitas
Read MoreSettling In, Reflecting
Michael Stivers
2011-01-10
The past three weeks in my new home-stay have been an absolute roller coaster as have the emotions that have accompanied it.
Read MoreMenina da Favela
Meg Healy
2011-01-07
It’s been two weeks since I moved in with my new host family in the inner-city neighborhood of Baixo Petroleo in Salvador, and I’m starting to wrap my head around what life here will look like for the next three and a half months. I live on the top floor of a three-story concrete building...
Read MoreContributions
Karyn Miller
2011-01-04
A student from Salvador asked me, while we were conversing about why exactly I’m in Nova Suica, what I bring to the community. At our first monthly meeting, during our Portuguese check-up with Marcelo, he asked us how we think we can contribute to bettering our communities. A doctor from the health post in Santo...
Read MoreRaspando Manioca
Karyn Miller
2011-01-04
Hoje, eu raspei manioca. Today, I peeled manioc root. It was a very MST day—perhaps more so than any I’ve had yet. It was laundry day, because it was water day. Translation? We washed clothes and sheets with the water in the storage tank on one side of the house, and then transferred water from...
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