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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Into the unknown
David Jenkins
2014-08-22
As the days get shorter so does my existing way of life. I will be leaving to live and work in a place totally foreign to my hometown. It’s a strange feeling knowing that in a couple of days everything that I have achieved will dissipate as I step out of comfortable community, and willingly...
Read More Pre-Departure Thoughts in Missoula
Ian Frank
2014-08-20
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Read More And so it begins…
Isabel Nardi
2014-08-19
Only a few days lie between me and the start of my Global Citizen year. I would like to take you back to show you where my journey truly began. A few months ago I was lost. I felt out of place, I dreaded college talk, and I said the bare minimum when the topic...
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Fundraising Challenge
Jessica Chai
2014-08-19
“Raise twenty-five hundred dollars in the span of 3 months” It sounded ludicrous, not to mention intimidating, particularly to an amateur like me. The extent of my fundraising experience extended to selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door in elementary school. The experience had been a blazing success, with a grand total of two subscriptions and one pity...
Read More Going beyond
Shaquerra Blackwell
2014-08-18
A summer ago, I was partnered up with another student volunteer for an eight week service learning project in Oaxaca, Mexico with a program called Amigos de las Américas. I grew personally as a human being from my time in Cruz De Piedra. I found justice and love for a different culture. I was also...
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The End of an Era: My Pre-Departure Feelings.
John Spence
2014-08-18
Things are terrifying right now. Not because by the end of the month I’ll be in a foreign country to stay for eight months. Not even because of all the dramatically different potentially more formidable challenges I’ll face over the next year. No, things are terrifying not because of the new things ahead but the...
Read More Why I Chose Ecuador and Global Citizen Year.
Noah Applebaum
2014-08-16
I’ve always had a yearning to learn the Spanish language. Something about it drew me to it. My mother’s side of the family is from Spain. When they came to America, they weren’t too keen on the fact that they were “different.” They stopped sending tortillas with my mother to school, and refused to speak...
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On Writing
Charlotte Reider-Smith
2014-08-16
Dear Readers, I want to write to you now – whoever you are. Maybe you read my last blog post. It’s 1:35am right now and I’m writing because I am feeling inspired to write and because I want to address my previous blog post. I don’t think that blog post is real. It’s not me....
Read More The Long Bumpy Road
Christobal Urquiaga
2014-08-15
Life can be filled to the brim with hard challenges that sometimes block your way to your goals. My preparation for this program is no exception to this. With getting documents late, being kicked out of my house, dealing with personal drama, and having to come up with money for expenses in which I can not...
Read More Lessons from a River Trip
Bella Bjornstad
2014-08-14
I spent a few weeks this summer making smoothies for the Bicycle Tour of Colorado, camping out every night, moving every morning, and making smoothies all day. But I was with three other people who are river rafting enthusiasts, so at every chance, and there were many in that state, we’d pump up the four...
Read More Welcome…
Jillian Doke
2014-08-14
…to my heart. This blog is going to be an extension of all my thoughts, feelings, worries, and joys. I will be posting as much as possible once I depart for ECUADOR! It still hasn’t hit me that I will be living in another country, on another continent so soon. Only days left in the...
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Something to Note
Georgia Reid
2014-08-13
My blog begins as so: “Touch the Sky” – Julie Fowlis, Brave (Original Score) (Go listen to it.) In music there exists a raw manifestation of human emotion; it has the ability to transcend blockades of communication words are unable to breach. Music is a melodic language that allows for a fundamental understanding and connection...
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