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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Portrait of an Artist
Naomi Wright
2011-02-09
After I’d landed in Dakar, I slowly found myself craving modes of self-expression.
Read MoreI was Shorn, the Sheep were Slaughtered
Johannes Raatz
2011-02-09
As the sheep were dragged out into the middle of the compound they somehow sensed their fate. They refused to walk willingly to their deaths. The men dragged them over by a leg or two and then tied them to metal stakes to keep them from running off. As I heard the knife being sharped,...
Read MoreEyes Wide Open
Madeleine Balchan
2011-02-08
“What is that?” Ndiy, my older mom, is stirring a rice paste in a kettle over burning logs (our stove). “Rice with sugar” she responded. “But why are you making that?” I’m confused. It’s mid-morning. We eat breakfast before 8 every morning. Lunch isn’t until 3:00 and she usually cooks the rice last. “Well I...
Read MoreInternal Discussions
Kedisha Samuels
2011-02-07
Even as I compose this blog right now I struggle with getting my mind to focus my thoughts on one thing. Four months into my year off from college and it appears as though I’m receiving an influx of feelings concerning life and what it means to me. Of course it is partly due to...
Read MoreA Glimpse of My Four Days a Week
Emily Hess
2011-02-03
When life isn’t crazy and unexpected, this is my four days a week.
Read MoreWhy a gap year?
Michaela Kobsa Mark
2011-02-02
Note: I was going to talk about how today I brutally scaled, beheaded, and disemboweled a fish, as part of today’s Cebu Djin preparation; however, I felt that as I have not done an adequate job in posting up blogs, I owed GCY fellows, parents, and supporters an explanation of where exactly I have been...
Read MoreA Global Perspective
Mathew Davis
2011-02-01
Thinking about issues and problems on such a sweeping scale, with so many layers and complexities, planning for my own future now seems easier than ever before.
Read MoreUnderstanding my sister
Clara Sekowski
2011-01-31
I’ve been an only child my whole life, so sometimes it’s hard to understand what goes on in a sibling kind of relationship in the US, and especially here. Especially when last week my family tried to tell me that my sister was stupid. I repeated, “Stupid?” “No,” they shook their heads, “more than that.”...
Read MoreIntroduction
Josh Hamilton
2011-01-26
My name is Joshua L. Hamilton and today I have the confidence to say that the sky is the limit for me. My life has been full of circumstances that may have put me at a disadvantage, but never disabled my will to succeed. Since I was three years old, I was raised by my...
Read MoreUnder the Mango Tree
Gus Ruchman
2011-01-25
I had waited for this moment for over three months. Kaay nu waxtaan. Come, let’s chat. When I received the rather hazy details of my apprenticeship, I was told that I would be making “awareness” visits with community health workers in the greater rural area of Sangalkam. That was the first and the last time...
Read MoreJoal
Justin Moore
2011-01-25
I think it is important to build some sort of foundation for my blog followers before posting blogs about random stories, occurrences and situations that I experience. So. This blog is a comprehensive overview of my life in Joal, touching on several of the most important aspects of my gap year so far. By doing...
Read MoreGlass Half Full
Naomi Wright
2011-01-19
As I approach this day, the monumental half-way point of my Global Citizen Year, I can’t help feeling like Keats’ Endymion, for though there are “many and many a verse I hope to write, I must be near the middle of my story.” Senegal will be home for only three and a half more months;...
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