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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Fogo Alegre
Andrew Poirier
2014-02-23
Hello world, it’s been a while. Since I last wrote, you, essentially everything has changed. I shall now elaborate: In my last blog I wrote about a brief excursion up a river that gave me many things on which to ruminate. That river was in a small town south of Florianopolis in the state of...
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Far From Done
Jose Duran Jr
2014-02-23
Monday, October 21: My birthday. Tuesday, October 22: Helped deliver a baby. Wednesday, October 23: Hay fus. (Nothing) Thursday, October 24: Little girl passed away at the health post. (Malaria) Friday, October 25: Hay fus. (Nothing) Saturday, October 26: My first Senegalese party. The week of my birthday was a particularly heavy week for me. Many of the realizations I’ve made about...
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Sorry for the Delay
Jose Duran Jr
2014-02-23
So, it’s kind of obvious that I have been a little lacking in blog posts here on my Global Citizen Year blog. Heck, I haven’t posted a single one since I left Houston way back in August. Now, I understand how this may come off as simply me being lazy, but I want you to hear me out...
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Where Time Takes Us
Kaitlyn Johnke
2014-02-23
I wade across the Gambia River, not bothering to roll up my pants because I know the water will eventually be higher than I can roll them. A cow leads the way across the river to where Sadou is in the garden on the other side, and I can see the red speck that is...
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Jewish Kid, Catholic Country
Isaiah Fischer-Brown
2014-02-23
“Voy a dormir, bendición María” “Dios te bendiga, que descanses Isaías” “Padre, Hijo, Espíritu Santo” I am going to bed, Blessing. May God bless you and that you rest, Isaiah. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. While speaking in her soft murmur, my host mother makes the motion of the crucifix across her chest and wishes me...
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Coffee, coffee everywhere but not a drop to drink
Cecily Montgomery
2014-02-23
In the States I was an avid coffee drinker. Every morning I would take my to-go cup with me into my first class at school and it wasn’t until I had finished it that I would feel fully awake. After school I would often treat myself to a twenty-ounce iced coffee that would help keep me up into the...
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A Very Merry Un-Birthday
Joshilyn Binkley
2014-02-23
The intense, mid-day sun reaches us in shades of green through the canopy of the vast tree the thirty of us are under. Colored paper strings hanging from the low branches dance in the warm breeze, and we sit on a carpet of damp earth and fallen pink flower petals. Each trying to serve the other, and then finally,...
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Ojala {poem}
Ilana Marder-Eppstein
2014-02-23
Ojala You told me Ojala, God willing. God willing you would marry After the age of twenty. Sitting with our eighteen-year-old Toes playing in the dirt. Thinking of love. I didn’t understand Why you said Ojala. I didn’t understand The force behind marrying young. And the fear that comes with it. But God wasn’t willing....
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Respect Your Elders
Lillie Mayfield
2014-02-23
As some of you might have heard, as of last Sunday, I have been evacuated out of my town because of the nearby volcano Tungurahua, which has been erupting beautifully lately. I’m now staying at a hotel waiting for the “orange alert” to be taken down so that I can go back home to my...
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