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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Saying Good-Bye
Florin Langer
2013-10-01
I want to start off by thanking all of my supporters for helping me to reach my goal of 2500 dollars for the Fellow Fund. I reached out to all of you in my time of need, and I was pleasantly surprised by the support you all returned. I found more support in some of...
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A Clearer View
Isabel Burns
2013-09-19
The first day that I got onto a bus in Quito, something seemed off. It wasn’t that no one looked like me, or that I couldn’t understand anyone around me. It wasn’t the fact that I was clutching my bag out of terror that someone would slash it if I looked away for even a second. It wasn’t...
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How’s my new world?
Edward Katz
2013-09-19
Brazil! Wow even just reminding myself that I’m really here is still exciting. Every day I take a moment to just realize where I am and what I’m doing here. I live in the house pictured above in the neighborhood of Rio Tavares in Florianopolis, SC Brazil. My host family is great with a mother,...
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Oda a Quito
JT Su
2013-09-19
Querida Quito, You are a big city–the “capital at the center of the world.” Your buildings make the clouds seem tangible. Your lighted night skyline is reminiscent of a million candles. Your weather fuses the span of four seasons into a few hours–sunshine, haze, rain, and more sunshine. The dichotomy of clear skies and dark...
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Protected: The World That You Need Is Wrapped In Gold Silver Sleeves
Simone Fillion-Raff
2013-09-18
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Equanimity
Alexandra Lines
2013-09-18
I sit here at the Office of Immigration early in the morning, surrounded by people with blue envelopes filled with their legal documents. I am waiting for a man named Carlos. I barely know him, but he is carrying around my passport and other legal identification. He told me to meet him here at 7...
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Faith
Sayre Quevedo
2013-09-18
“Cristiano…” the question begins, “Católico…Mormón?” We’re standing beside a mound of trinkets and wallets. In the middle of the square a man blows bubbles with his leathered lips, his face peeking out from the neck of his Barney suit. There is the sound of flutes. There is the cocktail of sweet and flesh, odors rising...
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Pichincha
Madeline Lisaius
2013-09-18
The Teleférico is a gondola that carries passengers high above Quito onto the volcano Pichincha where the trail to the summit begins. Although I love the vibrancy of Quito, it has become somewhat suffocating – I am surprised that I wholeheartedly believed that city life was for me – and wanting a small escape from the hustle and bustle, I...
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Change
Madeline Lisaius
2013-09-18
When my flight landed at the San Francisco Airport on August 21st, I was really wishing I hadn’t had oatmeal for breakfast. I was planning on avoiding bananas when I got off the muggy plane. Because, as mom says, bananas and oatmeal “slow down the system.” From my experience, change leads to constipation. And since this flight landed me...
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