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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Why I Still Believe
Joan Hanawi
2012-01-31
Although Global Citizen Year is a non-denominational organization, we all come from different places, different backgrounds, different beliefs. Which is exactly why his words echoed in my mind that night as I tried to determine if I had heard, let alone understood, correctly. “You have no idea, but you came at exactly the right moment. I...
Read MoreA day to remember
Alexis Adams
2012-01-31
The Senegalese Go on Strike!! January 27th will be the defining moment in Senegalese politics, of this decade. It seems like every time you turn on the TV someone, somewhere is protesting, going on strike, and/or launching complaints at the current administration. Teachers have gone on strike at least twice since the school year started in...
Read MoreIt’s More Than Just Tea
Alexis Adams
2012-01-31
Tea time here in Senegal is nothing like you would expect it to be, no crumpets and fancy dresses, and definitely no elaborate china and pinkies in the air. It’s more like a group of 6 or 7 people sitting around a coal stove for nearly an hour drinking Chinese green tea called Ataya from...
Read More¿Una Profesora? Who, Me?
Heather Kurtz
2012-01-31
In early January, the Prefecto (governor) of Napo came up to me and asked when I was leaving Ecuador. When I told him in April, he announced, “That’s great! So, now you are going to teach English”. You do not tell the Prefecto no. So I got a little worried about what I was going...
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A Day in the Life, Ecuador
Kirin Gupta
2012-01-31
Only Human A short video to take a glance at a day in my life, here in the little town of Cotundo, working at a public health clinic in the Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador’s Napo Province.
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The Search
Lucy Blumberg
2012-01-30
We make our way through the village, buckets and scarves in hand. People are sitting out talking, laughing. Children are playing. Upon seeing our baggage one man wishes us luck. “Search in peace,” he tells us. Upon arrival at the water spigot, we find a small group of women, girls really, waiting. They sit on...
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Strike!!!!!
Alexis Adams
2012-01-30
Today started just like another day; it was laundry day, midway through my second bucket of clothes I heard what sounded like a stampede of children charging down the streets. I ran out to see the streets flooded with over 300 students yelling, waving signs, chanting, and blocking traffic. My house is directly opposite St. Thomas...
Read MoreThe Walls Came Tumbling Down
Erica Anderson
2012-01-30
When I first started at Le Verger, I thought I had found an apprenticeship in paradise. My original placement in the school system turned out to be stressful and blinding, exactly what I didn’t want; the only direction I could see was OUT. I asked my host dad and fairy godfather if he could find...
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‘She’ being me.
Megan White
2012-01-30
No one has ever called the mosque in Potou graceful. Maybe when it was first built, maybe then they said that it was a good mosque: a clunky, stumpy tower which served to regularly pierce heaven with forceful cries of God’s goodness. Potou, the town of a thousand Allahu Akbars before dawn. She sat looking...
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