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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The Foot Experience
Mackenzie McMillen
2013-03-07
I don’t know what, if any life lesson can be learned from the past three weeks but I’ve come to realize that not every event needs to have a lesson attached to it. Maybe there’s a lesson but frankly I’m too exhausted by this whole thing to uncover it right now. So I’m just going to tell you what...
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Who’s Talking With Whom? Communication and Public Health in Senegal
Talia Katz
2013-03-07
Ask the Senegalese what the national language of their country is and the responses are often mixed. While the government and all reliable media sources assert with black and white precision that it is French, a little grassroots observation displays something quite different. While French may be the national language of Senegal, the amount of...
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Precious Moments
Claire Amsden
2013-03-07
This is a journal entry that morphed into a blog with some additions and editing. I like it because it shows how important the family integration part of this experience is to me. Because I didn’t decide to do this to “save the world” or even to make a difference in a village. Don’t get...
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On the Life of a Poor Person
Kevin Do
2013-03-06
Picture the following life: A person living in a village in Africa. You already picture some poor starving child probably. Let me continue the description. This person is living in a village with no electricity or running water. If he wants water, he has to go to the village pump and fill a bucket. Of...
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On My Objective in Senegal
Kevin Do
2013-03-06
My objective, intention, goal, expectation, whatever you want to call it, for this whole bridge year experience was to find myself. Sounds like a tough task, considering that people are always discovering new things about themselves right? It’s the experiences we go through that help us discover ourselves. And believe me, being here has given...
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Ibrahim
Kevin Do
2013-03-06
I was on a high. Just coming back from the first training seminar and seeing everyone again was awesome. Spending Thanksgiving on the beach and seeing how much we’ve changed only 7 weeks in. Sitting on the bus back I remember thinking, “Okay, now I’m a quarter of the way through. Time to kick thing...
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Becoming a Callous
Kevin Do
2013-03-06
I always say that you can make anything at all a metaphor for life. So I challenged myself to actually do it. This whole experience is turning me into a callus. What do I mean? Well first of all, what is a callus? It is a buildup of dead skin on a certain part of...
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Ear Infections and Awesome Families
Joshua Reason
2013-03-06
Having an ear infection abroad has been one of the most intense experiences of my life. It all started with a sore throat. Though my throat was in pain, I was not worried about it at all. I thought I could take care of it with a combination of cough drops, tea and over-the-counter medication....
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Rising in Love
Anvy Tran
2013-03-06
Fairy tales, teenager romance novels, love songs, chick-flicks; I have grown up surrounded by the idea of a beautiful boy. I have grown up seeking this beautiful person, dreaming of love, waiting for a prince. However I don’t think I would have even realized the concept of love if I hadn’t read about it, heard about, watched it on...
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