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 Unique Souvenir
Elizabeth Farrell
2019-05-25
One of my goals going into my gap year was to fill a sketchbook – something I’ve never been able to fully do before. I figured this was the perfect opportunity to do just that. Aside from taking many photos while in India, I also took of my free time to draw lots and try...
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My Capstone (Where I’m at Post-Ecuador)
Jeffrey Fishman
2019-05-24
It’s hard for me to believe that I left Ecuador almost two months ago. As I sit in my house in the United States writing this blog post, everything still feels a little weird. I spent the last seven months creating this second life for myself halfway across the globe. Then, on April 3rd, I...
Read MoreBollywood Bonanza: a review of all the movies I watched while in India.
Elizabeth Farrell
2019-05-24
While in India, I was lucky enough to be placed in a host family with a Mom who had a passion for movies. Every chance we got, we’d see whatever new Hindi movie was in theatres. I fell in love with Indian cinema! Back home, I’d completely fallen out of love with film – every...
Read MoreMoving Forward
Maddi Schink
2019-05-23
April 13, 2019 I returned to Colorado. For months, I had harbored this idea of returning “home.” It was glamorized in my head, a moment when I imagined once again being enveloped with instantaneous comfort. No more language struggles, no more stares, no more standing out in a crowd. Toward the end of my time in Ecuador, I thought I was more than ready to say my...
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One Season After The Other
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-05-23
We got to India when pomegranate season had just started. Powerful, beautiful tones of pink and red had taken over breakfast tiffins and curd bowls. And although the seeds were bright and healthy, I carried in me the burden of wanting to be somewhere else at all times during that same season. Nothing seemed enough,...
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A Big Thank You to All Donors
Andrew Chen
2019-05-22
To anyone who has donated to Global Citizen Year, I wanted to say a big thank you for donating to GCY and for helping make this amazing program possible for me and others like myself. I had been wanting to do a gap year because I felt burned out from high school and lacked clarity...
Read Moreon a nostalgia that never arrived & trans-linguistic familiarity
Phoebe Shea Perez
2019-05-22
Mangi fi – I’m here. For now, I’m here in Guatemala, yet another place I indulge in calling home. I’m back in a place that further reduces the nostalgia I had so long anticipated for Senegal, a nostalgia that never quite arrived. I occasionally do miss the concrete things that I can’t naturally do here...
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Working @ Projeto Tamar
Lynn Drescher
2019-05-22
At TAMAR in Floripa, I learned about sea turtles and natural protection. But more importantly, about the importance of collaboration and support in a team. Thanks to coworkers, who became close friends, I was soon able to hold guided tours for visitors in English as well as in Portuguese. I taught about the dangers created...
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To look back
Emiliana Reinoso
2019-05-22
Mirar atrás Hoy, en esta madrugada de un miércoles, me encuentro sentada en un viejo sofá escribiendo sobre lo que aún no logro descifrar. Los días pueden ser muy intensos cuando vuelves a lo que antes conformaba toda mi idea de un hogar. Lo cierto es que tres años viviendo fuera del país no me...
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