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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1st Blog
Hailey Thomas-Turner
2018-08-22
“What is coming is better that what has gone”- Arabic Proverb Hello! Is anyone there? I want to start off by saying thank you to everyone that has donated to me, prayed for me, and given me well wishes on my journey. Without you all, I would not have been able to experience an...
Read MoreA bit of my story/ Um pouco da minha historia
Nicholas Bassetti
2018-08-20
Hello, my name is Nick Bassetti 4 years ago in the small city called Colatina, ES in Brazil, I was planning to come to the United States, to finish high school, I never thought I would end up with the chance to go to Senegal, that's in Africa by the way, to learn...
Read MoreChapter 1: Entering the Open Door
Xandra Coleman
2018-08-20
Right now, there is a stupendous pile of objects strewn across my sister’s old room. In fact, ever since Aniqua officially moved out, the room has been slowly assimilated into a preparatory launch pad. A confined world of 40% deet, malaria pills, dollar store band-aids, and loose fitting pants. It is a world I can...
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Bifurcaciones
Paula Medina
2018-08-18
Two years ago, I started a life changing experience. I was offered a scholarship to attend UWCSEA, meaning I was going to be spending two years in Singapore in an international school supported by values based on peace, diversity and international understanding. I refer to that experience as a rollercoaster; with ups, downs, and...
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To Make a Change & Be Alive
London Samson
2018-08-16
You know when you’re young, like really young, with your messy hair and stuffed animals, and people ask, “What do you want to be when you grow up?,” and you sit there for a second thinking about all the crazy possibilities of the things you could become before blurting out, “a superhero!” or “a princess,...
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Same Delegate, Different Stage
Mia Reyes
2018-08-15
For a long time, the word community applied only to what I knew was familiar and the world was a smaller place because of it. And then everything changed. My freshman year of high school, I joined Model United Nations (MUN) and in a way, the decision made itself, as I entered in...
Read Morenote to self
Miriam Abel
2018-08-15
Dear Miri, Before you lift up your suitcase and check into the plane that will carry you to Senegal, remember these words from a person you can learn a lot from – yourself: 1. Bring yourself back to the time when Senegal sounded so unrealistic and distant to you that you found it hard...
Read MoreLetter for undergraduate students who don’t know what to do yet.
Salome-Valdivieso
2018-08-14
So I decided to take a gap year, and my parents were not very happy with my decision in the begging. It took a while for them to understand and for me to learn how to stand up for what I believe. I believe in the power of learning from people and places. And...
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Jovana Jovanovska
2018-08-14
Our whole lives are challenges, challenges that will make us happy or sad, but most importantly, ones that would shape us, make us think and experience. When I applied to take a gap year, one of the outcomes I wanted to achieve was to make a change for myself. However, that process started...
Read MoreHappy Families
Maddi McGirr
2018-08-13
Monday 13th August 2018 Blog Entry 1 “Happy Families” Happy Families. A little known card game which I have played with my siblings from a very young age. The game is similar to that of ‘Go Fish’ with normal playing cards, the aim being to collect the most complete sets of families comprised...
Read MoreSophia Youngdahl First Blog!
Sophia Youngdahl
2018-08-13
Home. A word we all long for, a feeling we all seek to create, a place where a mind can settle and a heart can breathe a sigh of relief. Over the course of our lives we discover many, each with a distinct taste or flooding memory that forever holds a part of us...
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There’s a Lot to Think About and a Lot to Love
Mia Reyes
2018-08-13
It is a hard feeling to describe sitting here counting down the days until I leave the comforts of all that is familiar and side step tradition as I embrace my gap year. And yet, I feel equally justified in saying that I am not particularly inclined to describe the feeling entirely because so...
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