Fellow Stories

Feliz Navidad

Rosie Fitzsimmons

2015-07-09

That week alone, I had read 3 novels. I don’t think I’ve ever read and completed 3 whole novels in even a year. Okay, that may be a slight exaggeration, but, honestly, not by much. Point being, I’m far from an avid reader. But I felt like I had no other option. It‰Ûªs amazing how...

Dear Jesica

Rosie Fitzsimmons

2015-07-09

Dear Jesi, We were talking during one of our lectures about what we did when things got hard during our year, how we reflected and calm down after faced with a challenge. Everyone said things like they went for a run alone, they climbed a mountain or a tree alone, they meditated alone – preferring...

Coming Home

Rosie Fitzsimmons

2015-07-09

Coming home was when my Global Citizen Year really began. In the weeks proceeding my departure, I was so overwhelmed with making final lesson plans for my students and planning out all my goodbyes for everyone who had shaped my experience, that I didn’t take much time for myself to reflect and actually comprehend that...

Coming Home

Rosie Fitzsimmons

2015-06-30

Coming home was when my Global Citizen Year really began.     In the weeks proceeding my departure, I was so overwhelmed with making final lesson plans for my students and planning out all my goodbyes for everyone who had shaped my experience, that I didn’t take much time for myself to reflect and actually...

Dear Jesica

Rosie Fitzsimmons

2015-06-30

Dear Jesi, We were talking during one of our lectures about what we did when things got hard during our year, how we reflected and calm down after faced with a challenge. Everyone said things like they went for a run alone, they climbed a mountain or a tree alone, they meditated alone – preferring...

Things I brought back from Ecuador

Mayssa Gregoire

2015-06-24

8 gb of music my dj host bro said I must have which is true its a must have Nostalgia Photos A false sens of belonging to the Ecuadorian culture , ecuador pride lots of pride even if im not one drop ecuadorian ?? ( restaurant incident) A desire to speak spanish , anytime My...

machona

Mayssa Gregoire

2015-06-24

host mom tells it like it is soy machona

A memory of February 17th

Mayssa Gregoire

2015-06-24

The day started off just like any other day . We wake up early to take care of the cows at about 6 am giving them water, milking them, tending to manure. Later we had breakfast, everyone together talking laughing joked and we had a visitor my extended host cousin. The day continued just like...

Deceiving first impressions

Mayssa Gregoire

2015-06-22

-> host mom first impressions -> weird super grateful : ” life to be brought in a world , you didn’t ask for it and you meet people didnt ask to meet them either but everything about it can feel so right  

pivotal moments

Mayssa Gregoire

2015-06-22

Snapshots

Clarissa Bury

2015-06-19

A photo essay. Banner: My host family and I 1. Imbabura fellows resting during our first week-long retreat 2. My host dad, Alfredo, smiles at me in the mirror of his truck 3. The scene at the Cotacachi cemetery during the Dia de Difuntos celebration 4. Uncle Jorge leaving the fields after 7 hours of...

Home

Hadiyah Grubish

2015-06-19

I’ve been home for almost three months.åÊ I’ve been struggling to redefine my definition of home for almost three months. You see, the problem (and the blessing) with leaving theåÊonly place you’ve ever known as home is that you discover that home is not a geographical place, it’s not the people you’ve known the longest,...