Fellow Stories
True gap year stories from Fellows abroad!
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Seeing a Different Side
Peter Saudek
2011-04-08
During the recent holiday, Carnaval, I traveled with my host family to visit our grandparents for the weekend in Carchi, which is the most northern province of Ecuador before Colombia. My host mother’s parents live in a small community called “Sixal” that has a population of about one hundred people. Sixal sits on the top...
Read MoreA day in the life of the Aula Móvil
Peter Saudek
2011-04-08
Here is a short video I made to show you what a normal day is like with the Aula Móvil – a part of my GCY apprenticeship.
Read MoreUp the Nevado
Cameron Kaufman
2011-04-06
I’ve been living in Cayambe, Ecuador for about five months now. The small city is located in a valley nestled in the shadow of the volcano after which it is named: Nevado Cayambe. On a good day (although this is rare), the ever-present cloud veil lifts, and for once you can see the absolutely stunning...
Read MoreThe Keys to my House
Liza David
2011-04-05
It is a bit funny to me how much time and effort is put into security in the United States. Although robberies do occur, they are often infrequent events where I live. From my experience, in Long Island, NY, a house robbery occurs maybe every few years. Then again, we have alarm systems, video cameras...
Read MoreHambi Wasi’s Grand Promotion ¡Celebración!
Alberto Servin
2011-04-04
These are a group of photos that I took of Hambi Wasi’s grand promotion and inauguration of the vertical birth clinic on March 12th in Otavalo. The event was an overall success and many people and groups attended, including officials from the Ministry of Public Health, the municipal authorities of Otavalo, university presidents, and indigenous...
Read MoreTour Of the Coffee Farm
Liza David
2011-03-31
Welcome to my farm! After living here for a while, I have now become able to distinguish between different crops and their ages. (It’s a very important skill to have). Besides coffee, yucca, guava and papayas, we also have begun to grow carrots, radishes, lettuce and more garden types of food. We have orange trees...
Read MoreA Tour of the Hambi Wasi Clinic
Alberto Servin
2011-03-29
This is a video I made for my high school because they were interested in knowing about my apprenticeship. In this clip, I explain a little bit about the clinic’s history and what services they offer. I hope you like it!
Read MoreA Hambi Wasi Community Visit
Alberto Servin
2011-03-24
Hey there! Here is a video I recorded of one of the community visits Hambi Wasi and I did during February. I hope you enjoy the video!
Read MoreThrowing Away Your Identity
Chloe Bobar
2011-03-22
identity – the set of characteristics that somebody recognizes as belonging uniquely to himself or herself and constituting his or her individual personality for life Imagine that your identity was taken from you. Specifically, imagine that five defining factors of your identity were taken from you: your gender, your age, your economic status, your...
Read MoreHe Doesn’t Have Any Shoes
Lily Shaffer
2011-03-17
Meet Darwin Montoya. He’s eight, the third child in his family. He has three brothers and two sisters. He was one of my students in Refuerzo and one of my Kids with Cameras participants. He’s the first one I told about Kids with Cameras. He came to pick up his siblings, Camila and Camilo, from...
Read MoreMy First Communion or How I Learned the Word for Sin
Liza David
2011-03-16
I think this blog post should begin with an apology. I kind of gave my host family the impression that eating meat was a sin for Jews. I apologize to all the meat loving Jews for making my host family think that all Jews cannot eat meat. So I went to Church (again). Although this...
Read MoreMinding the Shop
Joe Giallo
2011-03-15
On any given Sunday, you can find me sitting under the blue umbrella on the right hand side of the Apuela’s main street, minding the family shop. Every Sunday, my host mom prepares a huge pot of fritada, fried pork, with mote, some sort of tasteless thing that I think is related to corn, as...
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