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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Day in the Life
Meredith Jones
2019-05-14
6:15am- Wake up, take a shower, eat breakfast with Heidy. Mama Ede cooks breakfast, usually a plate of rice, sometimes with potatoes or bread and quesillo (Ecuadorian cheese) or a boiled plantain (one of my personal favorites). 6:50am- Heidy and I leave the house to catch the bus. 7:30am- 1:00pm – I am at work...
Read MoreA Letter
Tenzin Gyalmo
2019-05-13
A letter to me just starting the GCY journey. (And to future fellows who might read this) Dear me, You are getting way ahead of yourself. It’s great that you have these expectations but your expectations will serve you a good laugh. Seven months in Brazil seems like such a long time but it will go...
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Little Grey Pickup Truck
Sophie Meltzer
2019-05-11
On so many mornings while in Ecuador I would awaken and, before opening my eyes, think that I was in my bedroom in Framingham. Each time I would drearily lift my eyelids to be reminded that I was in fact, still in my host community. Sometimes this excited me, others it was devastating, and sometimes...
Read MoreViviendo el momento en paz
Ndenda Mutsaku
2019-05-09
Español Que sucede cuando pones a una latina que le encanta estar bailando y moviéndose en un país donde la gente se sienta en silencio por 2 horas. Una latina que siempre quiere solo concentrarse y termina el trabajo para después poder hacer lo que quiera y no tener que preocuparse por ello, que la...
Read MoreIdentity in a Sea of Ambiguity
Ashley Trejo
2019-05-03
Hola ~ Hello ~ नमस्कार In my life, there are few times that questions have truly stumped me and left me scrambling to formulate a clear response. The majority of these instances are linked to any question asked by TSA that turn me into a clammy, stuttering mess for absolutely no reason. Although, I suppose...
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Haku Wasima
Anna Sophie Tinneny
2019-04-29
“‘You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place,’ I told him, ‘like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.’” Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran As I stepped...
Read MoreReflection about Yaye Fatou Dieng
Paula Medina
2019-04-29
*29 de Abril de 2019* El día que llegué a mi casa senegalesa, me dijo mi Yaay que a partir de ese momento, yo me llamaría Yaye Fatou. Mi apellido sería Dieng, porque así se apellidaba mi nueva familia senegalesa. Yaye Fatou Dieng. Y yo, que probablemente no entendí ni una tercera parte de lo...
Read MoreOwning Happiness
Rebecca Rose
2019-04-29
It’s my last night in Brazil and I’m….happy? I set aside time tonight to write something profound. A pontification on life’s beginnings and ends, a graceful foray through my best memories in Brazil, and the things I’ll miss most of all, hammering the keys as tears stream down my face. And yet it’s here and...
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Before I Said Goodbye
Eliza Stowe
2019-04-25
Thursday, April 25 2019. Every once and awhile I wish more than anything that I could go back to those days before I said goodbye to Ecuador. Those days where I woke up to my natural alarm clock of the sun and the songs of the gas truck making it’s rounds past my house at...
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