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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An Introduction
Sayre Quevedo
2013-07-09
This is a photo I took at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral procession. This is a photo I took in London. This is a photo I took on my first trip out of the country in my whole life. Up until the week I took this photo, standing on Abingdon Street with a cheap disposable camera and...
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I Veered and I Couldn’t Be More Excited
Leah Mesh-Ferguson
2013-07-09
Hi, my name is Leah Mesh-Ferguson and I am from Arlington, Massachusetts. From my colorful family background to my passion for languages, I have always been interested in an international existence. I knew I wanted to study aboard, or eventually live somewhere foreign and charming. I never thought I would be taking a bridge year...
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Good Water
Peyton Foley
2013-07-09
I sit on a garden wall in the front yard of the dead artist Guayasumin and around me are beautifully placed plants amidst walkways, a mix of green and white. The breathtaking view of little toy buildings that fade into the distance falls steeply before my feet. Quito, Ecuador’s capitol, swims in the basin...
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Lauren Holt
2013-06-17
“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears, and the dragons of home, under ones’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”
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The Weirdness of Normalcy
Ely Kadish
2013-05-15
As someone who had experienced Reverse Culture Shock before, I prepared myself for the worst. I had lived that type of emotional period, before after only six weeks over seas, so I could only imagine how bad this was going to be. I painted on my smile, stuffed my most precious memories in little boxes...
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The Giving Tree
Jordan Lee
2013-05-15
As some of you may know, I had somewhat of a “deprived” childhood. I’ve never seen Bambi, Winnie the Pooh, Sesame Street, or a whole assortment of commonplace children’s shows and movies. I’ve never been to any zoo. And I don’t remember ever eating a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich before the age of 15....
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Ecuador’s Infinite Possibilities
John Villanueva
2013-05-15
This is my Capstone Video to sum up my bridge year. Enjoy!
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Jumble
Lydia Collins
2013-05-14
I am a jumble. I am a jumble of everything and anything on so many levels. I can’t pinpoint how I feel or why I act how I act or why I say what I say or why I blog what I blog. I really started to jumble the night before we left Ecuador. I said goodbye...
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Samé
Emily Soule
2013-05-08
This blog is supposed to address my personal experiences here in Ecuador as a young American abroad; however, for this particular entry I wish to share two poems written this year about two different locations in Ecuador – the town of Samé and the capital of the province of Sucumbios. I hope you enjoy! In...
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Home
Emily Hwang
2013-05-08
Today is April 6th, which means that in two weeks time, I will be home. And I wonder what will remain of all this when I’m in my own house with my own family, lying on my own bed at night, struggling to see the stars through the LA smog. In two weeks time, I’ll...
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The Nature of Poverty
Fikrte Abebe
2013-05-08
I co-wrote this blog with Tsion Horra, a fellow Fellow. We were recently exposed to the results of a study done by the UN in 1998. The results were published in a book titled “Voices of the Poor.” Through the reading we believe we have a deeper understanding of poverty. What we have come to...
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The Nature of Poverty
Tsion Horra
2013-05-08
I co-wrote this blog with Fikrte Abebe, a fellow Fellow. We were recently exposed to the results of a study done by the UN in 1998. The results were published in a book titled “Voices of the Poor.” Through the reading we believe we have a deeper understanding of poverty. What we have come to...
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