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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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,...
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Alejandro Sanchez
2015-06-19
ÛÏYou will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. This is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.Û – Miriam Adeney As we drove to the airport on August 20th, the only thought that raced through my...
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Gatherings
Clarissa Bury
2015-06-19
In my second week in Ecuador, my family invited me to a velatorio, which, in that sense, was a Kichwa Ecuadorian memorial service. I was exhausted from work and it was about 8 at night already, so I hesitantly asked how long we would be out. No mas que una hora. No more than one...
Read MoreThe Importance of Family
Noah Applebaum
2015-06-08
Written November 2014 —- My host family picked me up from my program today. I was nervous at first but mi mami, Rosanna, came up to me, smiled, and said ÛÏmijo!Û (my son). She hugged me as if I was her own. We arrived back at the apartment and my brain was already so tired...
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Lucas Weber
2015-06-08
Written January 3, 2015 — Always the one invited to parties, never the one to go. Which in turn, made me into the one never invited to parties. I didn’t mind it too much, but I did get a sort of hipster pleasure by denying fun. I can’t say I never went to parties, in...
Read MoreA List: The Best and the Worst
Charlotte Reider-Smith
2015-06-03
Challenges food machismoism Best family friends
Read MoreAn Attempt at Gratitude
John Spence
2015-06-02
Thank you. Thank all of you. Thank you to those who read my blog during the year. Thank you to the folks who messaged me on Facebook. Thank you to the people who posted pictures of their smiling faces so that I could feel their happiness from thousands of miles away. All the time now...
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John Spence
2015-06-02
Here’s a visual look at all the people and connections that made this experience incredible. I hope you enjoy the pictures of all my loved ones. s.
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John Spence
2015-06-02
Here’s a visual look at all the people and connections that made this experience incredible. I hope you enjoy the pictures of all my loved ones. s.
Read MoreA La Cruz
Rosie Fitzsimmons
2015-06-02
I had already been living in my homestay for about 3 weeks before I met my host-dad. I didn’t exactly know what to expect. I sat across from him that morning for breakfast engaging in basic conversation when I asked, solely out of curiosity, about the giant cross atop a prominent mountain far off in...
Read Morebruised up kitchen table
Shaquerra Blackwell
2015-06-02
the kitchen table raised me, how to eat mito ( fried tilipia napo dish) understanding the complications of life in the rainforest. In the day I looked out at the gaps of the wood and tin roof where the tropical trees swayed; where children’s laughter and screaming voices echoed into neighboring houses.. That kitchen table...
Read Morebruised up kitchen table
Shaquerra Blackwell
2015-06-02
the kitchen table raised me, how to eat mito ( fried tilipia napo dish) understanding the complications of life in the rainforest. In the day I looked out at the gaps of the wood and tin roof where the tropical trees swayed; where children’s laughter and screaming voices echoed into neighboring houses.. That kitchen table...
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