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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Clarifying Chaos
Alcyone Magana
2014-10-23
Two winters, and what seems like a lifetime ago, I read a sentence that went something like this: If you’re in a creative void, stuck, and not making progress, simply stand on top of your chair and observe… this simple shift in perspective will provide clarity and perhaps will bring new ideas to what you’re...
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Lessons Tena Has Taught Me Thus Far
Hadiyah Grubish
2014-10-22
1. It’s hot. Not just “Oh, it’s a little warm out today,” but a real ” I think I might be dying,” type of heat. Think Georgia in the end of July, just before the near daily afternoon thunderstorms where the humidity is at it’s peak, with the mid-day sun multiplied by five, and no...
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Brazil!?!
Isaac King
2014-10-22
I’ve counted down the days, or more like hours now, until the big arrival into a new country. A new country filled with new gestures, new foods, and new dreams, and somewhere in the midst of all that change, hopefully a newly well-rounded Isaac Lee King. I have held onto this dream of venturing out...
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When you Face Two Roads Diverged, Pick the One that Seems Harder
Paulina Jedrzejowski
2014-10-21
Feeling the harness bite into my thighs and stomach, I knew that the pain was only for my safety and I had to do this to begin the journey of overcoming fear. As I looked up the ladder, I knew that I had to climb about two hundred feet to begin the journey… I still had an...
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Minha Amada Biblioteca
Myriam Sitterson
2014-10-21
The little library where I work is one of the biggest worlds I know. To know any space — to know where the floorboards creak and the sofa sinks, or which drawer holds the whisk, the paperclips — surely fulfills some innate human desire. But to know a library… This week, I’ve read A Brief...
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Week on Senegal #2: On Language
Jose Cruz
2014-10-21
I write these words on October 15th. While I will still write seven blogs, it won’t all be done in a week. I chose that quality is better than quantity and took my time with my blogs. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role language plays in society, mainly because of all the...
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The German Immersion Within My Ecuadorian Immersion
Alejandro Sanchez
2014-10-21
How does a German who has never been to the United States and an American who has never been to Germany become good friends? There he was, standing in the corner of the lunch room drinking coffee while waiting for Spanish classes to resume. As I went to serve myself some tea, I heard him...
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Thoughts of a Fellow
Andrew Sinclair
2014-10-21
The thoughts that ran through my head during the start of my application up to where I am today: Go submit your application; this program is what you’re looking for. Look at that, you got in. On the 2nd week of June you graduate, next comes the summer, then Ecuador. Be ready to leave your...
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To my Future Self
Bailey Bullock
2014-10-17
This past week, we were challenged to create and share our vision of our Global Citizen Year. My vision of my future self is as follows: By April, I will have a new place to call home. I will have added six new members to my family and I will have become another sister and...
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