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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Blog 1: The Adventure of Isolation
Silvia Craig
2019-09-02
I may have procrastinated this blog, as it was technically due last night; admittedly not the best start. Though, until this moment I did not start reflecting on what leaving meant to me. I am currently an hour and ten minutes away from Dakar, soaring above a group of islands I have never heard about....
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Abdallah Salha
2019-08-31
As a person who grew up in Gaza and was born in Saudi Arabia to a family that has lived abroad for most of their lives and they originally descend from two occupied Palestinian Villages: Barbara and Deir Sneid, I always had a strong feeling of belonging to the world in general and Palestine in...
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Where We Grow
Katie Mastriano
2019-08-31
I learned about my host family on my 19th birthday. Throughout the day, a friend and I would occasionally refresh my email. Right before my friend lit the candle on the cake they made, I refreshed the page one last time. We screamed with excitement. A true birthday gift. A little over a week later,...
Read MoreAngelique Cruz Blog Post
Angelique Cruz
2019-08-30
Dear Self, Today you wake up seeing the world not as it is , but what it can be. Today you will learn. Today you will evolve. Today you will experience growth. Today you will have a conversation that will move you. Today you will experience an amount of emotions that you may not understand...
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Julija Zagurskyte
2019-08-30
“How do you feel about moving to Senegal?!?!?!?” Introversion and impulsivity are the worst traits. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing bad about the sense of comfort that comes from within – introverts commonly have an acute sense of self and keen observation… and we all have a moment in which we acted so...
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Joshua Shields
2019-08-30
Senegal. The land of teranga, and the vast unknown to which I'll be plunging into shortly. It is a dive into a pool so deep I won't happen to surface from it for eight months. It looms like a titan in my imagination, its languages, customs, history, and overall presence unyielding thus far to my...
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On the Edge of Adventure
Sophia Miller
2019-08-30
If you were to walk through the Miller-Hermans house this week, you would find little piles everywhere. Boxes of tea and crackers in the kitchen, crucial documents in the office, and clothes stacked in the guest bedroom all waiting to be neatly shoved into a beat-up suitcase. But packing for the unknown is difficult. How...
Read MoreComfortable Being Uncomfortable
Eleanor Ross
2019-08-29
I’ve always tried to keep most thoughts out of my head. Seems contradictory, but I have a formula. It’s incredibly precise. If I start thinking about something that makes me uncomfortable, I actively shake the thought out of my head. Be warned, an incredibly intense precision is imperative to moving your head side to side...
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My Global Citizen Year Overview
Erin Pugh
2019-08-28
Hi! Welcome to my blog where I’ll be posting (frequency tbd) about my bridge year for the next few months. I haven’t actually left the country yet, so I thought it would be most useful to answer some basic questions: Where am I now? Global Launch! It’s our entry training held...
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Hadley Duquette
2019-08-27
My journal entry from day one at Global Launch!! I realized during the second day that this was not the most true journal entry. The first day was hard, really hard. I wanted to be very positive for my first journal, but I realized that it shouldn't be, it should just be authentic. Over these...
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Ke Kubugile
Sinead Nardi-White
2019-08-26
For as long as I can remember, reminders of my mom’s time in Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer have been present in my life- our house is decorated with art, furniture, and musical instruments from Botswana, she has come to do cultural presentations at my school, and her Peace Corps friends are like aunts...
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Let’s Do This
Olivia Fiscal
2019-08-25
I'm about to board a plane and leave my home. Is it terrifying? Yes very but I know I'm ready for this, you might have not been able to tell because I was crying the whole way through the airport, but I swear Im so excited. Ok cool so I'm doing this. I think its...
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