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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Fragmented Thoughts On Nothing At All
Lara Solis
2019-10-20
I had a really good week and so today I’m having a really sad and confusing day, as if I had to pay rent for joy. —*— A lot of what has brought me happiness recently is a constant movement of work, travel, and class followed by rest in which I can think, write, draw...
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Piece On The Climate Strike in Pune, India
Lily Turner
2019-10-15
September 21st, 2019 Almost everything about my India experience has been somewhat contradictory. You come out of a nice mall or coffee shop to wild pigs wandering across the road, you spend hours making fresh meals and eat them with only your hands, and in the same instant you will see a sign that says...
Read MoreUna Cartita de Amor
Lara Solis
2019-10-04
He tenido un poco de miedo de escribir en Español. Estando tan lejos de casa, me siento insegura en poner lapicero sobre papel, no sé que va a salir. Nunca me siento tan conectada con mi hogar como cuando escribo en Español. Y aunque titubee y avance a paso lento, me siento en...
Read MoreIndian Hospitals and Adrak Chai
Carly Nolan
2019-10-02
My first month here in India, in regards to health, has been an interesting experience to say the least. I have consistently been a favorite snack for Pune’s entire mosquito population, been to the hospital twice, been prescribed 7 different medications, and drank a few too many cups of adrak chai (ginger tea). I know...
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Is sharing really caring?
Celia Morton
2019-09-29
Before leaving Sweden I made a post on Instagram preparing my audience for an unstoppable flow of content, or in other words, spam, of my life in India. It has now been 29 days since I arrived, and I have only made one upload which consisted of a photo of a street in Pune, explaining...
Read MoreWE ALL DESERVE GOOD EDUCATION … DON’T WE ?
Juan Perez
2019-09-26
BLOG # 2 .mp4 Too much was happening for the past three weeks , I discovered that my spiciness resistance has increased, I met my host family , I started my job at a primary school with 5th grade kids , I already know how to take the bus to my apprenticeship and to my...
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It’s Ok Not to Speak
Angel Bryant
2019-09-25
Before I get a kindly-worded letter from in-country staff or Falik herself, hear me out. Also, boy do I have a lot of words to say. 1908 to be exact. PROTIP FOR FUTURE FELLOWS #1: Bring a laptop, even if it gets hot when you open notepad. Your capability of doing blogs and college applications...
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Sundays
Lara Solis
2019-09-22
"You took my sadness out of context" I want my writing to be better. I want it to move you, wrench you, change you. More honestly, I want it to move me, wrench me, change me. Something interesting is happening to me. My body is doing things it has never done before. My lymph nodes...
Read MoreLanguage Arts
Emilya Ershtein
2019-09-18
In school, they call it “language arts”, the art of language. Personally, I never thought of it that way; the idea of spelling tests and grammar rules never felt very artistic. To my sister and I, they were all the less fun, as we came to American school with no knowledge of English because my...
Read MoreStuck In A Doorway
Christina Chevie
2019-09-15
I want more than anything right now to say that I am happy. I want to tell you how in love I am with the city and with life. In fact if you ask me, that is what I will tell you. But I have to be honest with myself. I am struggling. I am...
Read MoreAn Email to my Parents, An Update
Lara Solis
2019-09-15
Dear Family, Being a teenager is exhausting. God the texting is idiotic. And so the lack of social media is quite refreshing. It feels like I’ve transcended the things I thought were essential, not in a huge way. But in a, “instagram is useless” way. My bed is too big, which is good but also...
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5th Time’s a Charm
Carly Nolan
2019-09-11
I’ve tried writing this blog post 4 times before now. I wanted to write about how Global Launch has been culture shock in itself with all the different, and very strongly opinionated, people about to embark on their own bridge years. I wanted to write about how even though I pride myself in being an...
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