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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Notes to the things I’ve lost
Sophia Alfaro
2019-03-10
I’ve been away from my permanent home for 7 months now. In that timespan I’ve lost too many things. Here’s my final goodbye to them all. The chain from a necklace that my first committed partner gifted me, that was accompanied by a one-of-kind topaz pendant that my mother and I picked out by the...
Read MoreUpdates from Bad Luck Garden
Alyssa Shteyn
2019-03-07
I’m sitting outside watching my favorite neighborhood kid play with his toy. He’s three years old and throwing things. He always throws his toys at the watchmen and smiling passerbys. He climbs up the parking garages of neighboring buildings and throws plastic cricket bats onto the street. No one stops him, this neighborhood is his...
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Blessings
Faith Anderson
2019-03-06
At the beggining of this year the letters UWC have been constantly floating around, at Global Launch there was a massive confusion as to what this mysterious and glorious organization was. Sounded too good to be true, a sort of utopia, and also why had I never heard of it and had the chance to...
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Unknown
Faith Anderson
2019-03-06
As this this gap year begins to come to a close I look back at various blog drafts I have saved, sitting unposted in fear that the words are unworthy. Even typing this I fear I am fearing that the words won’t be eloquent enough to put it out to the world. But looking at...
Read MoreTransportation tips for Pune, India Visitors!
Sophia Alfaro
2019-03-03
On Getting Around: India is huge, diverse, and always surprising. I believe I have tried every mode of transportation the city has to offer (the public bus, private and shared rickshaws, Uber, taxis, walking). I love to [try] to take the bus and walk everywhere as it’s nice for my pocket, my legs, and my...
Read MoreDirty Laundry
Gema Benavides Jimenez
2019-02-16
When you don’t have a washing machine in your house and you don’t want to wash all of your clothes by hand, you are forced to look for an alternative – in other words, you better find yourself some friends that do have a washing machine in their house. The day of the accident, Libbie...
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Last Week In Meghalaya
Anthony Romain Jr.
2019-02-14
These aren’t all of the pictures I took while in Meghalaya. You can view all my pictures by following this link: drive.google.com/folderview?id=1jVKz33P6ZAdRUswitxEaI0XTatMItBmp *You may have to copy and paste the URL to your browser*
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Vida inteira numa terça-feira
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-02-12
Me lembro bem de ouvir alguém dizer que pra sobreviver a um ano sabático eu tinha que me acostumar a não fazer muita coisa. Abraçar o vazio das muitas horam que habitam numa terça-feira à tarde. Bem, antes que eu pudesse aprender a administrar a monotonia de não ter o que fazer, as mil e...
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Life on a Tuesday
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-02-12
[português no final] I remember being told that to be on a gap year you had to get used to not doing much. To embrace the void in the hours that can fit in a single Tuesday afternoon. Well, before I could learn how to manage the stillness of being bored, I was struck by...
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An Insight Into Northeast India
Leonie Tollefson
2019-02-12
“The Sun said to the Man, ‘Spread more light than heat, that is what our world needs.’” Father George, Siloam This quote is what began the transformative experience that was Northeast India and Learning Seminar 2. A land with beauty that I had never seen before, mountains coated in green, boundless lakes and rivers, and...
Read MoreLearning from my students.
Momar Mboup
2019-02-04
Four days a week and seven hours a day, my life in Hyderabad mainly revolves around children. Every day, I sincerely admire their aura of cheerfulness, optimism and innocence. Not to mention, each one has a dream he or she is chasing, no matter how far-fetched. To me, most of their dreams are unrealistic in...
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Joana Mouzinho
2019-02-03
It is Saturday afternoon and I find myself aimlessly walking towards a very concrete goal. Suddenly a very peculiar sense of overwhelmingness hits me: one which, although interiorized, has not become less surreal nonetheless. The body and identity within which I conduct and which helps me carry on my day to day tasks is 18...
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