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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"Poco a Poco"
Maya Foster
2018-10-03
Poco a poco, little by little, bit by bit. “Poco a poco” has been my favorite phrase recently. It is so simple in both English and Spanish, but I find that is the answer to most of the questions I’m asked right now: *How are you adjusting? How’s the language acquisition been? Do you feel...
Read MoreIn the "Honey Moon" Stage
Katarina Guillot
2018-10-02
I am in love with the way the sun peeks out behind a tall daisy covered green mountain behind my house at 5:47 am every morning. I am in love with the sound of the dog’s paws running on the roof above my bedroom around 6 am as if they were about to begin a...
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A Blunt Pencil
Laura Harvey
2018-09-30
Whilst drawing out in the landscape, an art teacher once told me that “you must draw faster, because every time you look up, what you see will have changed.” Pencil in hand, and sheltering my sketchpad from the late winter drizzle, I realise that this concept transcends much further than the Tuscan hills. On the...
Read MoreUntitled No. 1
Manuel Quesada Nylen
2018-09-30
Although it’s a cliche, I’ve found myself as of recently saying that cliches, as washed up as they may seem, exist for a reason. Curiosity really did kill the cat, one man’s meat really is another man’s poison, actions DO speak louder than words, you really can’t (and shouldn’t) judge a book by its cover;...
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Fragility, Scarcity, Purpose, Love.
Joana Mouzinho
2018-09-30
Fragility, Scarcity, Purpose, Love. It has been hard for me to write. It has been hard for me to gather my thoughts, to put into words what is best remain untold; what is too great to be explained. I guess this a great way of starting this blog. I want to make myself clear: My...
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Cafecito
Natalia Rijo
2018-09-28
Yesterday after being called by my host mom to drink el “Cafecito”, which will be a coffee with some bread during the afternoon, we started peeling zambo seeds together ( a salty watermelon), while I talked about the limited vegetarian Uruguayan food and she let me see that we share many ingredients but different ways...
Read MoreChapter 3: Gone with the Run
Xandra Coleman
2018-09-27
-A passage adapted from my journal on 23 September 2018- It was one of those days. I’ve been gone away from home for almost a month now, and I had one of those days. For starters, I’ve been perpetually sleep deprived, and, well, we all know how most Colemans, especially me, do on lack of...
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The Dangers of The First Impression
Leonie Tollefson
2018-09-27
Namaste, I’m in India! I’ve been in Pune for about a month now, and it has truly been an incredible experience so far, and I still have 7 months to go! As many of you know, I am taking part in a gap year immersion program called Global Citizen Year. It involves living with a...
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Stories (and Lessons) from My First Few Weeks in Ecuador!
Jeffrey Fishman
2018-09-27
I can’t believe that it has been about a month since I have left the United States to spend a year in Ecuador, living with a host family, learning Spanish, and working with a local organization in my new community. After leaving Pennsylvania, I spent a week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for...
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