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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Movie Recommendations
Luca Sassi
2019-05-26
Most nights before going to bed I tried to watch a movie as it's something I'm passionated about. This is a list of some of the movies I watched over my time in Senegal, which in a way they touched me. —> Call Me By Your Name —> Midnight in Paris —> The Iron Lady...
Read MoreMy biggest fear
Luca Sassi
2019-05-26
I apply to GCY without overthinking, it was a very spontaneous decision that I took. It took e time to start processing the fact that soon I was going to be leaving Uruguay and start a new life in Senegal. Once the process started the questions started to arrive Am I prepared? Do I really...
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Footprints
Sophia Youngdahl
2019-05-25
I found grains of sand in my tennis shoes the other day. It was not a particularly large amount nor overwhelming; a few grains simply tumbled out of my shoes and onto my carpeted floor. They were out of sight in seconds. As I continued to unpack, I found more sand – in my suitcase,...
Read Moreon a nostalgia that never arrived & trans-linguistic familiarity
Phoebe Shea Perez
2019-05-22
Mangi fi – I’m here. For now, I’m here in Guatemala, yet another place I indulge in calling home. I’m back in a place that further reduces the nostalgia I had so long anticipated for Senegal, a nostalgia that never quite arrived. I occasionally do miss the concrete things that I can’t naturally do here...
Read MoreWhat Have I Learned?
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-22
What have I learned?I don’t have to keep being polite to men who are rude to me. There is often no need to be in a hurry. Energy and love are two of the most important qualities within my identity. Don’t always expect other people to be thinking the same way you are. Family can...
Read Moreat a loss
Sophia Youngdahl
2019-05-21
Being back here brings with it a strange sort of serendipity; the type that creeps into my mind in fleeting moments and instills within me a feeling of closure. Most times, however, it seems as though I am grasping at memories that are slipping through my hands like sand. It frustrates me to no end;...
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The Day Before Leaving Home
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
This is the blog I wrote in a Boston hotel room while sitting next to my mom; we were watching the Whitney Houston movie "The Bodyguard" together. I was about to fly out to California the next morning, where I'd meet the GCY cohort and finally begin this whole adventure. I never ended up posting...
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Some Of My Favorite Videos & Photos (pt.2)
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
Touba-Toul.JPG Pire.jpg Khady Diop tryna kill me.MOV good day in dakar.JPG Clouds.JPG EKTU7047.JPG family.JPG Boys on Bikes.MOV
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Some Of My Favorite Photos & Videos
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
Boys w Flowers (Mohammed&Cheikh2).JPG Workspace in Goree.JPG Yellow Building In Goree.jpg Flowers.JPG Khady&Mami.JPG Khady's Favorite Flowers.jpg Maimona.JPG Massaer.MOV Khady Painting.JPG Ami Killin it .JPG Buuba.JPG Pink&Yellow.JPG Djilli's Papaya.MP4 Moustapha.JPG Boys w Flowers (Mohammed&Cheikh).JPG Boys w Flowers.JPG Massaer.m4a
Read MoreSongs Significant To Me In Senegal
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jMS6xs5TL33GjzVYC3fOK
Read MoreAn Act Of Love
Isabel Clarkin
2019-05-21
An act of kindness in a time where I was feeling really low was when my host father taught me how to make his attaya (tea). The day before, I had just lost something very important to me; something that I had really defined my year for me up to that point. And one of...
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To the Wathie Family, With Love, Maam Faatu Toubab
Mia Reyes
2019-05-21
On the morning of pick up day, I woke up early at 6:00 to finish packing my room, and as I finished I sat down on my bed, looking at the family picture that my dad had made us take the night before, and wrote this, glimpses into the mountains of lessons I learned from...
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