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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Fears at 3 am: “To be or Not to be that Is the question?”
Danielle Campbell
2019-09-11
Danielle Diaries: Fears at 3 am: “To be or Not to be that Is the question?” I want to be brutally honest with you guys when I tell you that it is currently 3:33 in the morning. I am currently in a netted bed with mosquitoes ready to devour my skin to the point where...
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“Childhood Nostalgia Meets Overlapping Dreams of a Barely Adulting Adult
Danielle Campbell
2019-09-11
Danielle Diaries: “Childhood Nostalgia Meets Overlapping Dreams of a Barely Adulting Adult” Dear Diary, (Between August 25th– September 4th) It feels weird. The years of pinning to leave home has finally culminated to this moment.As a passenger on my continuing flight I can’t help but think about everything that has led me to this moment....
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Deepa Gayadin
2019-09-10
I have been waiting for a long time for the perfect moment to write my first Bridge year related blog but now that I think about it, what would be that perfect moment; my first day with my house family, Ganesh Chaturthi in India or maybe simply my first day at school being a disaster? But despite those...
Read More3 am India
Christina Chevie
2019-09-09
As I lay here in my hard narrow bed, I admire the color purple that surrounds me on my mosquito netting. It may be raining out. It may also be monkeys dancing on the roof again. I find it hard to differentiate the two. Either way both have managed to steal the sleep from my...
Read MoreWritten On A Park Bench
Christina Chevie
2019-09-09
All my life I've known what I want to do with it. Since I was a little girl I had a dream of traveling and volunteering. A strange dream for an 8 year old I admit but nevertheless this was all I dreamt of. It was all I talked about and it was all I...
Read MoreRather genuine than friendly – lieber authentisch als freundlich
Levin Stamm
2019-09-03
US-Americans are friendly, happy, interested – all the time. That may be okay at first sight, being traits that indicate the positive state of a person, even of a whole society. At first I was delighted to see the openness and friendliness with which people interacted. But as the days passed, all the standing ovations,...
Read MoreREADY FOR THIS (First blog)
Juan Perez
2019-09-03
I can’t believe this is already happening, I’m waiting for my laundry to be done while I’m writing this, and my excitement is getting bigger and bigger, the Indian songs are already part of my most played songs on my Spotify and my Netflix is already noticing my preferences on Bollywood movies. I’m not even...
Read MoreHow helpful is help?
Celia Morton
2019-08-31
I am currently at the Global Launch at Stanford California and lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about harm. These past couples of days we’ve had talks by inspiring entrepreneurs all working for a better world in their own way. In our discussions we always came back to the difficulties of the solutions to these...
Read MoreSweetwater
Melissa Matias
2019-08-31
My "experience" in high school wasn't a good one but don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad one either. What it HAS been was a journey trying to find the "up to my down". https://soundcloud.com/maliavibes/malia-sweetwater In elementary school, my fourth grade teacher asked the class of twenty what their dream schools were. My bestfriends...
Read MoreHow does it feel like to be a fellow?
Mame Sarr
2019-08-30
How does it feel to be like a fellow? How does it feel like to be hosted by a family that you have never met before? How does it feel like to have host siblings? How does it feel to learn a language and immersing yourself to a new culture? How does it feel? Considering...
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New Beginnings
Brianna Torres
2019-08-30
I have thought about writing my first blog for a while now and I really focused on how it should start and what I should share with you all. Perhaps, the one reading this knows nothing about me and so I wanted to share something that gives a little insight. Whatever that means. So, to...
Read MoreEmotional Adventures Milana Venegoni India Blog 1
Milana Venegoni
2019-08-30
I have made several different stories all with wildly different perspectives in the days that I have been on this campus. I have written at my highest highs and my lowest lows and I am currently speaking from a place of great emotional upheaval (What else is new?). There are so many different feelings I...
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