Fellow Stories
True gap year stories from Fellows abroad!
Check out the latest blogs from Global Citizen Year Fellows in Brazil, Ecuador, and India!
Category
Class Year
Country
Leap Without Inhibitions
Jacklyn Joy Byrd
2012-05-08
Please enjoy this short video about my time teaching dance classes with the help of my apprenticeship host, CARE-International. Click the link below or partake in the smaller version. I’ll let the video speak for me! http://youtu.be/9pgGKYQuzpw
Read More
Ever wonder…? (video)
Molly Owens
2012-05-08
Hey everyone! Check out my capstone video. I’ve been using it as a tool to get people excited and interested about gap year programs like Global Citizen Year. It’s just a bunch of clips to show those watching how different and amazing my life was while I lived in Ecuador. If you have any questions...
Read MoreWalking Together
Lindsey Sepulveda
2012-05-04
During my year, I worked with an organization called La Casa De La Juventud (Youth House). This organization is made up mainly of local youth ranging from all ages, who get together and set up events to do after school or during weekends. La Casa De La Juventud provides a network for the youth in...
Read MoreCapstone Project
Lindsey Sepulveda
2012-05-04
I am now back home, and all I can think about are my family, friends, co-workers, Global Citizen Year staff, and fellows. I miss everyone very much and especially Ibarra. When I started my year I was given the opportunity to create an entirely new life. No one knew me and I didn’t know anyone...
Read MoreThank You. Gracias.
Lindsey Sepulveda
2012-05-04
To show our appreciation (Imbabura fellows) to our host families and apprenticeship directors. We put together a video. We presented the video during the thank you luncheon. The families and directors were happy to see how much we cared about them. I hope you enjoy the video. https://vimeo.com/41474225
Read MoreLindsey and Molly Try a New Food
Lindsey Sepulveda
2012-04-27
It’s very common for people who visit Ecuador to try food that is less than usual in other countries, such as guinea pigs. A few months ago, another fellow, Molly Ryan Owen, tried churos, which are tiny snails that are boiled and eaten with onions, tomato, lime and other toppings. Churos are often sold as...
Read More
Envy the perfect moment
Michael Winfield
2012-04-24
Not the moment but the cherish of the moment run with the sunset to get another the pressure of life that make us alive time pass only if we can move the hands of time our night become the daydream what happen to the memory if we only wished we could cherish that moment
Read More
Thank You for Participating
Sienna Walker
2012-04-24
I am late. Only by 10 minutes but late nonetheless. It’s a clear Monday morning, the sun isn’t yet scorching and the rains have passed. He isn’t phased. In baggy army shorts and bearing my life investment, a EOS Canon Rebel T3, he walks with swag. I throw my hair back into a bun as...
Read More
The Day that Life Begins
Priyanka Rao
2012-04-24
11am at work I decided I was going to the psychologist since the idea still clung after my 5am sanity jog along the Amazonian highway of Ecuador, where I am spending my gap year. By 12pm I had an appointment with Edda, the Clinical Psychologist and a bed with my original host family; by the...
Read More
Quinceañera
Kirin Gupta
2012-04-24
“I know, I know she was gift.” “Love, then why do you not dress her? Why did you have trouble giving her your milk?” “She was a gift, but I did not ask for this.” Jeni sits across from me, eyes flicking from side to side, as though searching for an escape. “This is the...
Read More
We Are One
Molly Owens
2012-04-19
Universality is a word I have truly connected to throughout this experience in Ecuador. As I boarded the plane to my new life back in August, I dreamed of making new friends and blending in easily into my Ecuadorian family but I never even imagined how deep the connections could be. While I feel at...
Read More
Mission: Carnaval
Lindsey Sepulveda
2012-04-17
Mission Name: Carnaval in Coangue 2012 Date: February 20th and 21st Objective: To get yourself and every living object in site as dirty as possible, using water (from the river), paint, flour, eggs, and only in desperate cases use mud. Execution Plan: Plan to catch a bus at 9 a.m. Wait in line for an...
Read More