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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A Little More Perspective
Sarai Patterson
2013-12-30
It has been almost four months since I stood in line at airport security, trying not to cry as I waved goodbye to my family. Four months since I last saw my mom. Four months since I stood on hot red desert dirt—and I still have yet to post a single thing on this blog! No, it’s not merely...
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An Ecuadorian Love Story
Nikita Dolin
2013-12-30
You asked me where I am. Well, short story long; I’m 20 minutes outside a town that you cannot find on a map. I’m also 40 minutes outside the capital of nothing; nothing less than everything you need. If you take the journey somehow from the south, you should make sure to go when the sun is half...
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Learning to Walk
Aly Counsell
2013-12-30
November 5, 2013 It was a typical evening in Ndande, the village where I have been living since the beginning of October. I had just eaten a dinner of cere, which is a coarse couscous-like dish made from millet flour, and I was sitting on a straw mat watching TV with my family, when suddenly my aunt walked...
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The Power of Words: A Human Rights Manifesto
JT Su
2013-12-30
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell, 1984 In Spanish, there’s a word called “estadounidense.” It doesn’t have an English translation–that is, people try to translate it into “American,” but this translation isn’t accurate. “Estadounidense” is how people here describe someone who hails from the US, derived from “Estados Unidos,” the Spanish words for “The United States.” But...
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Thoughts on the Future
Abigail Dring
2013-12-30
I entered into my senior year of high school burned out and fed up. I was sick of being forced to take classes that were neither useful nor interesting. I kept asking myself, “When in my life am I ever going to need the quadratic formula?” I was fed up with the extreme emphasis on...
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La Vida Guamoteña en 3:33
Amanda Langan
2013-12-30
A glimpse into my life in Guamote, Chimborazo, Ecuador! Espero que le guste (:
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Lucky
Isabel Burns
2013-12-16
“You’re blessed, you know. You can do anything. Not everyone has that opportunity. You can do whatever you want.” Growing up, I heard that kind of phrase a lot. Usually, it came from my parent’s friends, adults who’d had the same opportunities when they were young. The difference between us was that I was only 18, and I...
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Cacao
Lauren Guido
2013-12-16
Today was a big day, I was going to the cacao festival in Tena with my supervisor David. At approximately 5:30am I awoke, surprisingly not to roosters or the Spanish music my family blasts at that hour but instead to a torrential downpour. Upon arriving in the rain to David’s house 3 hours later I was taken aback that...
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The Amazon Allstars
Aden Gilmour
2013-12-16
After finishing my high school basketball career I thought I would never play competitively again. I only wanted to play on the best Division 1 basketball teams and I was not at that level. During my senior year I trained as if I had already failed and I was often frustrated during my games. I felt as though...
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