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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This is Only the Beginning!
Kendall Yee
2014-09-02
At this moment, I sit here, feeling numb by the fact I just said goodbye to the Ecuador Cohort- from a very close friend I’ve known since freshmen year to all the amazing fellows I’ve met this past week. They are on their way to experience their wonderful year abroad and the amazing culture that...
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Home is Where the Heart is, and my Heart is Now with Me
Georgia Reid
2014-09-01
[“House At Pooh Corner” – Loggins & Messina] (Also, I recommend reading “The Tao of Pooh”) One of the invited speakers during Pre-Departure Training (PDT) at Stanford, Ian Slattery, led a simple, illuminating storytelling exercise: with closed eyes, he said one word and gave us 30 seconds to recall stories that were triggered by that...
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Monkey Bars and Onions
Bailey Bullock
2014-08-31
Over the past week, we took part in Pre-Departure Training. We began at Alliance Redwoods Conference Grounds in Occidental, California, among some of the country’s largest and beautiful trees, and ended the training on the well known Stanford University campus. During PDT, we have had the privilege to hear from some of the most amazing...
Read More Self: A person’s complete individuality
Hadiyah Grubish
2014-08-31
The notion of “self” is an odd one. The idea that we as people can be completely summed up into this one entity is so abstract, so indefinite that it’s hard to grasp on to. People make entire careers, base all of their goals, and develop views of the world based solely on the idea...
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Introduction
Myriam Sitterson
2014-08-31
While we were in the Redwoods, Abby Falik, the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, said something during her presentation that really stuck with me. Well, she said a lot of really cool things, but one thing in particular resonated with me that got me a little concerned. She said, “Some of you may...
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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...
Read More Into the unknown
David Jenkins
2014-08-22
As the days get shorter so does my existing way of life. I will be leaving to live and work in a place totally foreign to my hometown. It’s a strange feeling knowing that in a couple of days everything that I have achieved will dissipate as I step out of comfortable community, and willingly...
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