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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The Little Things
Amanda Langan
2014-04-11
I’ll miss 25 cent bus rides and the overplayed latin bachata filling the ears of every passenger as the chofer swerves on dusty dirt roads up Andean slopes. I’ll miss being able to hail down any camioneta and hitch a free ride on the back. I’ll miss the lack of WiFi. I’ll miss being reminded...
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Speak up
Alexandra Lines
2014-04-11
The following video is a recording of my “speak up,” a presentation I recently made on the topic that I have come to care the most about: food! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycDaGLdAx38
Read MoreStories from the Concrete Jungle – I Got Hustled
Andrew Poirier
2014-04-11
It was a normal day in the city of Curitiba. The streets were filled with all manner of folk which created a soft clamor that bounced and echoed lightly off the walls of the towering buildings that encroached on either side. I was walking to meet friends at one of the many bus stations in Centro...
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Para Irme
Madeline Lisaius
2014-04-11
Each day, my dad asks me, “¿Está emocionadísima para irse?” [So are you really excited to go?] At first, I was taken back. My papi and dates don’t seem to mix well, and that he was aware that the 9th of April was approaching lay uncomfortably in my stomach. Was he counting down the days...
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The Nature of Fear (and Courage)
Libby Parker-Simkin
2014-04-11
There are two types of fear: the fast primal type that helps you stay alive, and the slow existential type that keeps you up at night pondering the impending implosion of the universe and all of your insecurities. Both of these types of fear serve a purpose and neither is inherently bad, but they can...
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His Name Is Boo
Joanna Shieh
2014-04-11
I named him Boo, which is short for Bugio, the word for Howler Monkey in Portuguese. He is only a few months old and his head is around the size of a small plum. His long fingers gently pulled at my skin as he slowly struggled to climb up my arm. He clung to my...
Read MoreLet it Go
Allie McKinney
2014-04-11
I’ve never been a confident person. Insecurity has plagued my life ever since the dreaded onslaught of puberty. Whenever the opportunity for an awkward situation arises, my first instinct has always been to eject myself from said situation and hide until it is over. This characteristic has never been attractive to me and I thought...
Read MoreA Different Kind of Education
Abigail Clavin
2014-04-11
“What you hold on to you lose. What you give away you can never run out of…. You never fully grasp the fruits of your education until you give it away to another.” –Father Michael Himes A year and a half ago I sat at Fenway Park with my family and 20,000 other students, alumni...
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Original poem: What makes me different?
Olatunde Richardson
2014-04-11
What makes me different , I asked myself before So many different pathways, many different doors Staring at the Moon and speaking with the wind Learning from the World to understand whats within I thought my Heart would speak when I tried to listen Asking if its worth it to go and try to glisten...
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