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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Premature Good-byes
Lydia Crush
2012-03-28
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Repeat. You keep your mind focused on your breathing just to keep it off of what the day holds for you. You are heading back home, but only to pack up your things and leave. It feels like no one knows what will happen so there is nothing left to do...
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Piece of String
Lydia Crush
2012-03-28
As I said my last goodbyes to my family, all the way back in August, my mother gave some last minute advice through the din: “And take that string off your wrist! Please, you want to look nice, don’t you?” Two weeks after receiving this message (and still wearing the string), I boarded a plane...
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Corridors of Connectivity
Joan Hanawi
2012-03-28
Scribbling away furiously, I was doing everything that I had learned not to do in school. I was attempting to copy down every single word my boss said, trying to notate what he was saying without truly processing. However, the sudden silence made me pause. “You know what an eco-corridor is, right?” Sheepishly, I shook...
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Alma da Terra
Karina Rodriguez
2012-03-28
Where do you begin to talk about your Life To talk about where you´ve been And what you´ve done Who you are and where you´re from? In a mess of systems and an almost Obligatory form of Living, Who am I to say who I am and what I come from? Is it true what...
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Mouse-capades
Stephanie Dunning
2012-03-28
October 11 We killed a mouse tonight. Well, not we. My brother killed a mouse. Nancy and I were huddled on my bed. My brother, Ruben, and nephew, Bryan, were running around my room like banshees. The mouse was hiding under my commode. There were towels tucked under the door so it couldn’t escape and...
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Bare feet and labels
Kaya Hartley
2012-03-28
During my stay in Senegal I have been asked countless times who I am. To my Dakar host family, I am Haby Ndiaye. To the stranger on the street, I am toubab. The vendors call out ‘my sister!’ or ‘my friend!’ To my Potou host family I am Fatou Seye, to my host mother- my...
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Investment: A Video Blog From Ecuador
Welcome Frye
2012-03-27
It’s been quite a year! I’ll post another blog update before returning to the states, but here’s a video for you all to watch in the meantime. Enjoy, and thanks for all the support! I can’t seem to insert the video into this blog, so you’ll have to copy and paste this link into your browser...
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Lily Ellenberg
2012-03-27
My one week site visit to San Ramon De Kuyaloma got off to a slow start. The first day I sat in the office, chatted in broken Spanish to the director of the school, Fredy, and ate lunch at 10:45 am. Day two seemed it would be more of the same…until, Fredy led me to...
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A Kichwa Dream
Tessalyn Morrison
2012-03-27
[Note: This event happened near Christmas, but the message is still applicable to my life now.] “Do you want to go [incoherent words in Spanish]?” “Sure. Where are we going?” “[Incoherent name of town in Ecuador]!” “Alright. What time do we leave?” “Six in the morning on Saturday.” It was...
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