Fellow Stories
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Special Dinner Event (English Blog #3)
Jose Cruz
2014-08-31
I have two other blog posts about my time in Pre-Departure Training in the process of being completed. But after tonight, I feel the need to break the chronological coherence I had planned to maintain for my blog page. I write these words on the evening of August 25th, 2014 Hello, guys! I know many...
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Finding My Footing
Aiman Ahmad Marzio
2014-08-30
August 1, 2014 Last night, while performing the compulsive, always-only-barely-conscious activity of scrolling through my News Feed, I came across a post by Humans of New York quoting Malcolm Gladwell: “Change your mind about something significant every day.” Bull’s eye, Mr Gladwell. That is just the thing. How often do I tend to build the...
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“When One Door Closes, Many More Open”
Diego Ramos-Meyer
2014-08-23
For months, I have been telling anyone who is willing to listen about the upcoming year. Everyone that I know and their mothers know that I’ll be spending the following 8 months in Senegal. I have been so excited and afraid at the prospect of being away from home and the United States for so...
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An Unexpected Lesson
Andrea Snyder
2014-08-19
I’ve been mentally preparing myself for this trip since I received news of my acceptance. It feels strange sitting here now, realizing that this beautiful idea has quietly transformed itself into my reality. The fact of the matter is that in a little less than a month I will be on another continent, worlds away...
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Fear
Rayla Freeman
2014-08-19
Disclaimer – I wrote this about a month ago, when everything was a little bit different. While the contents of this blog are the same as they have been, there was a small period of time where I felt that maybe fear would interfere with my trip. In that, I want to say that what...
Read More Agri/Dulce
Jose Cruz
2014-08-18
Escribo estas palabras en la mañana del lunes, 11 de Agosto de 2014. Hoy, muchas de mis amistades comenzaron sus semestres escolares. Yo, en cambio, me encuentro sentado en un Denny’s vacío en la Chardon, aquí en Hato Rey. Me estoy cuestionando si debo practicar mi francés—que está medio sala’o—o si debo tomar ventaja de...
Read More Bitter/Sweet (English Blog #2)
Jose Cruz
2014-08-18
I write these words on the morning of Monday, August 11, 2014. Today, most of my friends started their school semesters—high school, college or otherwise. I instead, am sitting down alone in a Denny’s diner in the heart of San Juan, Puerto Rico. I’m questioning whether I should start studying my French—which I am slightly...
Read More Working for Maybe
Alice Brower
2014-08-16
When I tell people I’m not yet going to college – that instead I’ll be living in Senegal for a year – the response is quick and strong. Sometimes I get fearful shrieks and confused narrowed eyes. Not everyone, of course. Some people react calmly, with wide-mouthed awe, and tell me their own nostalgic stories....
Read More Letter to Future Self
Rabi Ibrahim
2014-08-14
Dear future self, I hope time has been kind to you and that you are well. I am writing this as a Pre-Global Citizen Year Rabi to remind you of your thoughts and feelings before you embark on this undoubtedly life changing journey. You might need to revisit these emotions. At the moment, I am...
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2. The Introductory Epilogue
Sophia Richter
2014-08-13
Hello! So I realized that my first post was probably rather boring and random to a lot of you who aren’t yet* familiar with how my brain works. I figured it would require a follow-up introduction to the previous introduction. It’s an introduction to the introduction except that it came after the first introduction! Ok,...
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1.Some Psychology, Philosophy, and Other Things I Know Nothing About
Sophia Richter
2014-08-13
Did you know that there is a part of your eye that is actually blind? Yea! I won’t go into all the details but basically there is a spot in the back of your eye where the optic nerve fibers pass through the retina so that there aren’t any light detecting cells on the surface....
Read More Steering
Maylin Enamorado
2014-08-11
I am quite a fan of Anne Sexton’s work. Among others, I consider her one of my poetry mothers. She is someone whose words I surround myself with whenever I sit down to assemble my own. When I sat down to write this blog post, I still didn’t have a concrete reason for going to...
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