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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My Road to Senegal
Samuel Normington
2013-07-10
Every life begins with a birth, and ends with a death. Everyone will get to the end eventually, but the exciting part happens along the way. There are an unbelievable number of roads to take, and yet everyone forges a new path; they define their life and they decide how to get to the end....
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A New Beginning
Mouna Algahaithi
2013-07-09
My heart was racing. It was 3: 55 pm on June 5th and no matter how many times I refreshed my inbox, there was no news from Global Citizen Year. “Maybe it’s time to accept that I wasn’t accepted,” I thought to myself, 20 seconds before the phone rang with a message that would indeed...
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Hello, Internet
Libby Parker-Simkin
2013-07-09
Hello, Internet! This morning I got up, had some coffee and toast, and was inspired to write this blog post. I’m sitting in my room with my laptop, listening to music, typing, and reflecting over how much my life is about to change. (See the photo above.) I am a curious person by nature....
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
JT Su
2013-07-09
Inspiration is everywhere. It drives my everyday life and pushes me to become a better person. It has the power to lift my mind to a world of infinite possibilities, where I can consistently feel empowered by reading inspiring words, listening to soulful music, watching miracles happening around me, or simply observing the raw beauty of the...
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An Introduction
Sayre Quevedo
2013-07-09
This is a photo I took at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral procession. This is a photo I took in London. This is a photo I took on my first trip out of the country in my whole life. Up until the week I took this photo, standing on Abingdon Street with a cheap disposable camera and...
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I Veered and I Couldn’t Be More Excited
Leah Mesh-Ferguson
2013-07-09
Hi, my name is Leah Mesh-Ferguson and I am from Arlington, Massachusetts. From my colorful family background to my passion for languages, I have always been interested in an international existence. I knew I wanted to study aboard, or eventually live somewhere foreign and charming. I never thought I would be taking a bridge year...
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First Steps and the Before
Guzly Guzman
2013-07-09
What can I do to get support? What can I give to get and give back in return? How can I do all this before my departure in August? These are only a few of the questions I have to seriously ask myself this summer. But before I get ahead of myself, let me explain...
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Suspended Animation
Barker Carlock
2013-05-15
Flight is truly a miracle, a spectacular marvel. There are four main principles to the concept of flight: lift, drag, weight, and thrust. I feel as though all of these forces are compounded upon me from all directions creating my first few days back in the States a sort of suspended animation. Never would I...
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Jumble
Lydia Collins
2013-05-14
I am a jumble. I am a jumble of everything and anything on so many levels. I can’t pinpoint how I feel or why I act how I act or why I say what I say or why I blog what I blog. I really started to jumble the night before we left Ecuador. I said goodbye...
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