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To feel or not to feel – normalizing discomfort
Karina Lisboa Båsund
2017-05-22
*This blogpost is based on the speak-up I did during re-entry training. Before I went to Senegal, I was prepared to embrace the culture and keep an open mind. I didn’t intend to judge nor criticize that which I didn’t know yet. So I arrived in Senegal all excited and ready to experience 'something new'....
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My Sketchbook’s Bridge Year
Anne Cohen
2017-05-18
My first drawing in my first sketchbook. My seat on the airplane from SEA to SFO! A sketch from PDT. During sessions, I would switch between sketching the presenters and taking notes. This sketch turned out to be a combination of multiple speakers in one day because I ran out of time. “Made...
Read MoreBlog #6 Village Life Photos
Nyles Davidheiser
2017-05-09
This blog contains photos of things throughout my village in Senegal.
Read MoreCapstone Video
Isabel Najjar
2017-05-01
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-H5-Ew8_a38eWNVM05wbzBsZzA/view?usp=sharing Hey all! Here's a quick peek into some of the highlights of my year in Segou.
Read MoreA Day In The Life Of Ousmane Diallo
Nicholas Montano
2017-05-01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YipZUJpvU-U How does Ousmane Diallo spend a typical day in his village of Dindefelo, Senegal? Here is an inside look on an average day for him from the minute he wakes up to the minute he rests his head. Enjoy!
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PASSAGES FROM MY JOURNAL
Karina Lisboa Båsund
2017-04-30
6th of September 2016 We’re in Dakar having Wolof lessons. It’s nice temperature today. It’s been too hot lately. Yesterday I had a headache. And I itch quite a lot sometimes. But that’s not of my concern. There is something else bothering me, but I can’t...
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7 ‘THINGS’ I’LL MISS ABOUT SENEGAL
Karina Lisboa Båsund
2017-04-29
1. The perspective of the sky Being on this side of the hemisphere, not only is the climate and culture different, but also the view of the sky. The sun is bigger, the half-moon shapes a parabola opening upwards. I'll miss those silent moments sitting on the rooftop gazing at the billions of stars and the...
Read MoreReturning Home
Na'im Pickett
2017-04-28
After experiencing one of the most challenging times of my life, I found myself on a plane back to San Francisco. I landed so close to home and yet so far because I had one more week of the program. So I left from the airport with our bus and ended up in the redwoods...
Read MoreAnd We Laughed at the Bullets
Jabari Gambrel
2017-04-27
And We Laughed at the Bullets We laughed at the bullets. Thought if our mouths opened wide enough, if our eyes lingered long enough, if our hips danced wild enough, if our shorts stopped fast enough we might find danger. The danger of being illegal. We laughed at the bullets, but we were also laughing...
Read MoreThursday nights
Anne Cohen
2017-04-21
Oceans of grass fill the sandy valley, rippling and bobbing in the evening breeze. The call to prayer echoes throughout the hills, coming and going in waves. There is a smattering of grey-brown houses and half built structures speckled throughout the sand. There is one grey-brown house situated in the bottom of the valley. There...
Read MoreA Note to the People Whom I Love
Thea Holcomb
2017-04-11
On the afternoon of April 15th, 2017, I will be deposited at the Salt Lake International Airport in my hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, marking my passage through yet another door in the Global Citizen Year Fellow experience. There have been times when this journey brought me to places of truly ineffable joy, and...
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