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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Event Success!!
Edward Katz
2013-08-20
My yard sale/bake sale fundraiser went so well!! Raised over $325!! Thank all of you who were able to donate to the sale, it couldn’t have happened without you. Of course I can’t forget to thank everyone who purchased from the sale as well. I am really happy with the success of the sale, I...
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On Global Citizen Year
Medhane-Alam Olushola
2013-08-20
To be completely honest, I was not completely enamored or enticed by the idea of taking a gap year for a very very very long time. My mother is the type of mother that reads parenting books and does research into what will be the best for the raising of a child, and since I...
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Estoy Lista.
Madeline Lisaius
2013-08-14
Recently, I have been thinking about give-and-take. To get the “Debbie-Downer” material out of the way, I fractured my arm and have been somewhat puzzled by it. A year ago, I probably would have been angry, sullen, and all “why me?” about the break. But when a member at the gym I worked at gave me that stereotypical concerned...
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Adventures in Soliciting
Spencer Wise Watson
2013-08-13
If there is any key to fundraising, no matter the cause, it is most certainly being shameless. The art of asking for help can be difficult at first, but in the end there is not a more humbling yet vital skill to gain! It reminds me of a really fantastic TED Talk by one of my favorite musicians, Amanda...
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Hey everyone I could use your help
Edward Katz
2013-08-13
Hey everyone! I could really use your help! So I’m not sure how many of you have talked to me about this program I’m in, aka, Global Citizen Year. But they “are an award-winning, non-profit social enterprise forging a new educational pathway for America’s emerging leaders. By immersing a diverse corps of Fellows in developing...
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My dreams are coming true!
Edward Katz
2013-08-07
Hello everyone! My name is Eddie Katz. I am 17 years old, I just graduated high school, and Global Citizen Year is making my dreams come true :). I really decided to take a gap year and try to travel because I thought I needed to really find myself in a way I couldn’t do any other way....
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The Chocolate Bubble
David Morrison
2013-08-05
My name is David Morrison, I’m 19 years old and I grew up in a small tourist trap called Hershey, Pennsylvania, or as locals sometimes call it, the Chocolate Bubble. Other than the obvious Hershey’s chocolate reference, we call it that because the town is known to be untapped by the world around us; not much can penetrate...
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Perfection
Alexandra Lines
2013-08-05
As my adventure grows closer, I begin to think more and more about how to prepare myself. I’ve made my packing and shopping lists- batteries, toothpaste, a medical kit, peanut butter to hide away and eat when I need to taste America- and my to do list of all the tasks I have yet to...
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Outside my comfort zone
Cecily Montgomery
2013-08-02
“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy.” This is the quote I repeat to myself as I prepare for my journey to Ecuador. I could, like most of my peers, go straight to college. This path would be the easier one for...
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