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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India Unexpected
Leonie Tollefson
2019-04-20
India has been full of surprises this year, especially since I tried to have no expectations going into it. I have now been back in my home, Madison, WI, for a few days and I’ve been reflecting on what things shocked me most about India. I wrote this little list up before I left India,...
Read MoreA New Scale of Love
Jaime Givens
2019-04-16
As my time in India comes to an end, I have realized the best way to measure how much my host family loves me is by how much food they try to (and most times, successfully) pile on my plate. Before we were placed with our host families we were warned by Global Citizen Year...
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An Overview of my Year
Andrew Chen
2019-04-05
Today’s my final blog about my life here: I’ll be talking about the big picture schedule here and summarizing what I’ve been up to during each of the past few months. When we first came to India, we stayed for a week just outside of Pune city undergoing entry training, which consisted of presentations and...
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Happy Holi!
Leonie Tollefson
2019-04-03
The last few days have been a blaze of color and light. I celebrated Holi a total of 3 times, and my best friend Leah came to Pune for a few days and joined me on my daily adventures. You may know Holi from the photos of people covered in colored powder, but it has...
Read MoreThe moment I reconnected with a long lost sense of magic
Joana Mouzinho
2019-03-26
And it went like this: Mei Mei, Papa Shaei i mei, Shaei i mei, Ahh ud ka kpoh Ahh kwah ja noh Shaei i mei Ahh to wan noh Kloi kloi ban ban ja noh Shaei i pa, Shaei pa, Ahh kua lea kai Lea kai la-luh Shaei i pa ‘fi jat in nju Lor...
Read MoreO poema de quem me tornei / The poem of who I’ve become
Joana Mouzinho
2019-03-26
Escrevi este poema em Shillong, nordeste da Índia, olhando o sol descer sob um rio que acabava em si mesmo. Ao longe, um homem remava. Tanta paixão que eu sinto vendo um homem remar embora a enormidade dos seus sonhos. Tanta paixão que eu sinto dentro do meu corpo, congelado e permanente, pelo mágico paralisado...
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Inaara Habibo
2019-03-26
March 2019 “às vezes. às vezes é difícil às vezes não consigo distinguir a mágoa da tristeza às vezes esqueço-me e volto a amar e a perdoar às vezes sinto-me irritada com a vontade que tenho de voltar voltar a momentos, a sitios, voltar a sensações e a pessoas às vezes perco-me no passado passado...
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Inaara Habibo
2019-03-26
I wrote this as I reflected on my independent travel days in Pondicherry. It was refreshing to look at the sea, feel the sand on my feet, breath the salty wind. As life goes on, we encounter many people. Some amazing, others not so much. We build relationships, ones that make us grow, others that...
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My Hindi Journey
Jack Swartzentruber
2019-03-26
My Hindi Journey One of my goals when I set out for India was to learn a language. I believed that language and culture are linked at their core, and that it is often difficult to understand one without the other. So, I wanted to make learning Hindi a central part of my experience here....
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Inaara Habibo
2019-03-26
March 26th 2019 Only a week. As I sit in this roof, I think: this is my last full moon here. There’s been times when I looked at moon from this same spot and told myself there are only x days left, you can do it. Today I cry. Today I don’t want to go....
Read MoreBahubali: My Favorite Bollywood Film
Jaime Givens
2019-03-24
[image: Image result for bahubali] अमरेंद्र बाहुबली यानि के मैं, माहेश्मती की असंख्य प्रजा, धन, मान और प्राण की रक्षा करूंगा। और इसके लिए अगर अपने प्राणों की आहूति भी देनी पड़े तो पीछे नहीं हटूंगा। राजमाता शिवगामी को साक्षी मानकर मैं यह शपथ लेता हूं। एक राजा का धर्म सिर्फ शत्रु को मारना ही...
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