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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Niños Malcreados
Gabe Jackman
2012-10-31
I have been teaching here in Pedro Vicente Maldonado for two weeks now. Pretty much all the kids know me, which is pretty impressive considering there are 984 students in this school grades 2-7. They all run up to me in the yard, calling me “Profe” or “Teacher.” The wee ones ask for high fives,...
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Blind Faith
Mackenzie McMillen
2012-10-31
About thirty minutes before we were all about to meet our Quiteño host families I decided I needed to call home, which I hadn’t done since we arrived in Quito four days before. This was not, per se, the best thing I could have done in that moment because as soon as I heard my mom’s voice through that...
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Ñuca Yachashcacuna: Part II
Sam Garcia
2012-10-31
I have had a lot of time just to think during my time in Ecuador, which, in the past, is something that I have not had a lot of time to do. I have been able to contemplate how I want my life to be and how I want my gap year to be. I have come to...
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The student teacher
Nathan Edwards
2012-10-29
Hola familia y amigos! I am wrapping up my week in Pedro Vicente Maldonado after leaving Quito and saying goodbye to the other fellows two weeks ago. It was difficult to say goodbye after spending such quality time together and having the privilege of seeing each other every day of the week. With that being...
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The mothers of Keur Dioba
Jordan Ricker
2012-10-26
Just the other day I traveled with Marisa (another Fellow) and two people from my Apprenticeship to a village called Keur Dioba that was about 20-25km outside of Mboro, the town in which I’m currently living. We went to a children’s school in the afternoon and there was an after-hours program for adults going on....
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Bamboo
Ella Wegman-Lawless
2012-10-26
Upon coming to Ecuador and during my stay in Quito I hadn’t gotten overwhelmed or scared. That all changed when I moved out the cloud forest region. As the bus drove me farther away from Quito and the majority of the other Fellows, I entered into a whole other world. This new world was to be my new home....
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Time has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine
Emma Anderson
2012-10-26
Once upon a time, two young global citizens named Aissatou and Aminta, thoroughly exhausted with the prospects of chilling in their respective Senegalese family’s compounds all day, decided to go on an adventure. Their illustrious plan was to meet at a particularly convenient hotspot and from there catch a bus to a small village approximately...
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A Village of Their Own
Emily Ford
2012-10-23
1993. A special year for planet Earth, for I was brought into this world. It also happens to be the year my host sister, Daba, was born. I seemingly won the geographic lottery by being born in the U.S., while the cosmic forces fated that Daba should be dropped down in the village of Medina...
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Reflections Eternal
Annie Schwandner
2012-10-20
I’m living in a village named Sebikotane. Technically it is the outer, outer rim of Dakar, Senegal. But if it were up to me, I would place them in different galaxies. Although this village has 25,000 people and a paved main road, it is incredibly different than Dakar. Differences can be caused by many factors; geography, socio-economic standings, how...
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