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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Just A Small Town Girl
Chloe Bash
2012-11-05
When I first I first arrived in La Abundancia, I questioned my decision to be placed in a small community. I walked down the single paved road, peering into the handful of shops and restaurants, and wondered what I would do for the next six months. I couldn’t head over to a library to study, a coffee shop to...
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Motorcycle Diaries
Chloe Bash
2012-11-04
“No te creo, no te creo.” “I don’t believe you.” Of course I must have ridden on a motorcycle. I explain that they were dangerous to ride in my city, a city like Quito. My sister runs to tell my brother, and next thing I know the motorcycle has been pulled onto the street and he is motioning for...
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Niños Malcreados
Gabe Jackman
2012-10-31
I have been teaching here in Pedro Vicente Maldonado for two weeks now. Pretty much all the kids know me, which is pretty impressive considering there are 984 students in this school grades 2-7. They all run up to me in the yard, calling me “Profe” or “Teacher.” The wee ones ask for high fives,...
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Blind Faith
Mackenzie McMillen
2012-10-31
About thirty minutes before we were all about to meet our Quiteño host families I decided I needed to call home, which I hadn’t done since we arrived in Quito four days before. This was not, per se, the best thing I could have done in that moment because as soon as I heard my mom’s voice through that...
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Ñuca Yachashcacuna: Part II
Sam Garcia
2012-10-31
I have had a lot of time just to think during my time in Ecuador, which, in the past, is something that I have not had a lot of time to do. I have been able to contemplate how I want my life to be and how I want my gap year to be. I have come to...
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Ñuca Yachashcacuna: Part I
Sam Garcia
2012-10-31
Over the past two months, I can say without a shadow of doubt that I have learned and grown more than I can fully appreciate right now. That is in no way saying that my experience has been easy, in fact, this is certainly a testament to how challenging it has been. It has taken longer than...
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Taking a Leap of Faith
Abby Lindsay
2012-10-31
I find myself thinking a lot about Abby Falik’s metaphor of the monkeybars at this moment in time: I started at home where both my hands were firmly planted and comfortable, swung over to San Francisco, had a moment of panic in a mid-air suspension until I met people I clicked with and started having...
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The student teacher
Nathan Edwards
2012-10-29
Hola familia y amigos! I am wrapping up my week in Pedro Vicente Maldonado after leaving Quito and saying goodbye to the other fellows two weeks ago. It was difficult to say goodbye after spending such quality time together and having the privilege of seeing each other every day of the week. With that being...
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Bamboo
Ella Wegman-Lawless
2012-10-26
Upon coming to Ecuador and during my stay in Quito I hadn’t gotten overwhelmed or scared. That all changed when I moved out the cloud forest region. As the bus drove me farther away from Quito and the majority of the other Fellows, I entered into a whole other world. This new world was to be my new home....
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My First Ecuadorian Holiday!
Aidan Holloway-Bidwell
2012-10-16
Today is my first Ecuadorian Holiday. Wednesday was 192 years since the independence of the coastal city of Guayaquil, but we get work off on the following Friday to make a long weekend. For the past 24 hours there’s been a rare abundance of traffic through Los Bancos as Quiteños head through the cloud forest to...
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Jackie Brown
2012-10-15
Hello all! Here is a video that describes a little bit of my first month here in Ecuador. Hope you enjoy! Also, people have asked for my address. So anyone who would like to mail anything, please send it to: Jackie Brown Global Citizen Year Hernado de la Cruz N31-37 y Mariana de Jesus Quito,...
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Que Sera, Sera
Atsina Allen
2012-10-10
A year ago, my english teacher Mrs. Schwartzfarb gave the class an assignment of choosing a song that describes our life at the moment. Pretty tough decision at the time, I know, but I somehow “Que Sera, Sera” covered by Sly and the Family Stone came up and nothing seemed more appropriate. Here I am...
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