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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The Cookbook Confessions
Sienna Walker
2012-06-15
Three. I have spent a total of three hours watching Food Network and I’m supposed to lead a cooking class? I’ll have it known that those three hours did, in fact, take place in the gym, without option, while working out. Now with it established that I am no Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay or...
Read MoreSecond Sight
Kirin Gupta
2012-06-15
GCY fellowship is a perspective builder, like the best teachers, parents, and mentors. It is a year for each of us to take on that responsibility, individually, to expand our own worldviews and develop a second sight. The second sight of a student who has lived in a house without floors and eaten off of...
Read MoreBack Together
Taylor Lawson
2012-06-15
Before we all reunited, I had my doubts. After so many months and hardships, I wasn’t sure that all the fellows could be back together with the same family dynamic we’d had before we met. While the first day was awkward, we quickly fell back into our friendships, learning about how we’ve all changed, and...
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House of Broken Crickets
Taylor Lawson
2012-06-15
Being back in the US, I’m rediscovering little things that I forgot about. One that comes to mind as I listen to a confused chirping from the corner, is the crickets. My family isn’t sure why, but our house attracts crickets. Often they have missing or crushed limbs. Others are babies, so small that you...
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This Year…in two minutes.
Abigail Hindson
2012-06-15
This video is a culmination of some of the things I learned as a Fellow in Ecuador the past eight months; I have been deeply affected by the family, friends, and home that I found there and I hope that this video can show even just a little of what I experienced there.
Read MoreLong Overdue
Sienna Walker
2012-05-24
Enjoy my first video! It touches on the big picture lessons that I took away from my gap year. Feedback appreciated! South of the Equator
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Beauveria bassiana
Madeline Campbell
2012-05-24
For the last month or so I’ve started working exclusively in the microbiology lab here at AACRI, which I absolutely love. The lab is where we cultivate fungus and bacteria to make organic fertilizers (hence the name ‘organic’ coffee) and treatments for coffee and cacao plants. We don’t actually grow cacao here, but we sell our products...
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Home
Elizabeth Warren
2012-05-22
For my last blog I wanted to write on returning to America, saying goodbye to my Global Citizen Year family and being back in the South. Arriving to America was just unbelievable that we were actually back, getting into a car where we actually had to wear seat belts and seeing everything as we were...
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Goodbyes Are Not Forever
Elizabeth Warren
2012-05-22
When I had first arrived in Ibarra, I thought that it was going to be the longest 7 months of my life and when the time came for me to get ready to leave, all I could think was, “Where did those 7 months go?” Was it really time for me to leave? At that...
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Dollars to development
Jacob Stern
2012-05-21
Microfinance is a word. A very fancy word. And a word I feel most people don’t really understand (even when they claim to). I, for example, don’t understand it. I spent three months this year trying to learn about it. I made a video about it! So you should check it out! You can...
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Los Chanchitos
Madeline Campbell
2012-05-21
(This story happened sometime in November. I’m sharing it now.) Okay. So every morning my mom and sister leave about an hour to a half hour before I do to go to work. We bought 5 piglets from our neighbors yesterday and it happens that the bars on the cage door are just slightly large...
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Five Days of Carnaval Craziness
Elizabeth Warren
2012-05-21
Carnaval is five days of pure craziness and fun, be prepared to get very dirty and wet and when you leave the house, leave the house prepared to fight. Carnaval started the first weekend of February, kids were out of school and there was no work for that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The first day...
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