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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Gringo
Josh Thompson
2013-01-04
One thing I expected living in Ecuador was to be treated like a foreigner. When people laugh while I walk by, stare without responding to my “Good Morning” or yell the only english words they know in my direction (“I Love You”) I’m not surprised. If an Ecuadorian wearing a feather hat and wool poncho stumbled around my town...
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Morochos Stories
Bijan Sanchez
2013-01-04
One of the more popular questions I have been asked by friends and family back home throughout the past few months in Ecuador has simply been: “What are you doing there?!” Well here to answer your query is my “day in the life” video I made for Teaching Seminar 1. I am in the Andean, indigenous community of Morochos...
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Choice
Bijan Sanchez
2013-01-04
Hello, my name is Bijan Sanchez, and I would just like to recount some of the reasoning’s behind the choices I have recently made that have eventually brought me here to the Andean, indigenous community of Morochos on my Global Citizen Year. The choice, the choice was always there; such a simple yes or no is granted for me...
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A Day In My Life In Video
Josh Thompson
2013-01-04
Here’s a video of a day in my life, to go along with the photos in my previous post
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Life in Chimborazo, Ecuador
Fikrte Abebe
2013-01-04
So for the past two months I’ve been living with a completely indigenous family in the community of Mancheno, about an hour away from Riobamba, Chimborazo and working in an INFA center as well as a school where I teach English. I love my family; especially my grandmother who does a great job of making me feel like a...
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El Triunfo: A Drive Through the Tropical Side
John Villanueva
2013-01-04
It’s actually been a while since that time on the Ecuadorian coast: October 14, 2012, the day I made it to Guayaquil, the largest and most modernized city in Ecuador. My supervisors and I at Fundación UTOPIA attended a three day agro-ecological forum in Guayaquil that highlighted the Food Sovereignty Movement in Ecuador. It was inspiring: I soaked in...
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Un Dia en Mi Vida
Mackenzie McMillen
2013-01-04
Here’s a glimpse of what my life is like here in Alausí, Chimborazo. More blog posts coming soon!
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A Day In The Life
Ella Wegman-Lawless
2013-01-02
Howdy Folks, Here is a video that I made documenting what I usually do during a day here in Pinchincha Ecuador. Also here are a few pictures I have compiled during my time here.
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A Day In My Life
Josh Thompson
2012-12-13
Every morning I eat breakfast (my favorite breakfast thus far has been the pancakes, french fries, rice and guinea pig combination) with this view. That’s the volcano Mt. Imbabura. It’s visible from pretty much everywhere in Pijal. This is the home of the “Sumak Pacha” tourism organization, which I work for. It is also...
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Single Parenthood in the Andean Mountains
Tsion Horra
2012-12-11
One morning my host mother in Nizag and I were eating breakfast when I noticed the unusual abundance of eggs in the kitchen. Eggs, at $0.15 each, are expensive for my family. For this reason we eat eggs only occasionally. So I asked my host mom how we got them. My host mom bought the...
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True Poverty
Gabe Jackman
2012-12-11
I was at school one day, working with the other English teacher. We in between classes, and had some time to hang out and talk for a bit. While we were talking, a girl no more than seven years old came up to us and asked for 10 cents. She has done this before, and...
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The Pith and The Pit: Biting Deeper Into The Essence Ecuador
Aidan Holloway-Bidwell
2012-12-07
Having spent two months in Los Bancos, I have come to a time of analysis and reflection. This experience has thrown so many new and unexpected situations at me daily, that only until recently have I felt qualified to categorize events, reflect on similar aspects, and make certain comparisons. To bring life to these reflections...
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