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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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.
Yesenia Martinez
2017-10-18
It's been 52 days since I left Chapel Hill, NC. I've spent 37 of those days in the beautiful country of Ecuador. It's only been a little over a month, yet I feel like I've known this place, specifically Cañar, for ages. The town I live in is small, and we are encircled by majestic...
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Why Rooftop Yoga Makes Patriotism Hard
Elise Leise
2017-10-17
I fold my legs beneath me, silently stretching my arms up and out to the edge of the periwinkle horizon, where streetlights trace a thin line between city and neverending sky. The half-finished cement buildings create a jigsaw puzzle, cut through with abstract slashes of laundry lines and dirt rectangles of futbol fields. Far below...
Read MoreThe Guachapala Life
Antony Le
2017-10-15
I’m loving it here in the south of Ecuador. I am located in a canton called Guachapala with my Caguana-Toledo family. My family consists of my mother, Gloria, my father, Esteban, my brothers, Martin (17) and Pedro (11), sister, Paula (19), and our four dogs. We have two pugs, a poodle, and a german shepherd...
Read MoreCapoeira is Treachery
Nick Cleveland-Stout
2017-10-14
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Read MoreThings I hope I don’t forget
Layla Solatan
2017-10-13
A simple video about a few things special to Ecuador, Ibarra, or my experience that I hope remember long after my year here. [vc_video link=’https://youtu.be/NGbmfXlDZmo’]
Read MoreMonth 1, Theme: Happiness
Isabelle Johnson
2017-10-12
Hello All! The culture shock has subsided, the fog has cleared, and i can finally form semi-rational thoughts about the last 3-4 weeks. It's been an eye-opening, difficult and wonderful adventure. First of all, I am starting to get used to all of the little aspects of life here that are so different compared to...
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Isabel Munoz Beaulieu
2017-10-12
I’ve been contemplating for a while what to write my next blog about, and I came to the conclusion that pictures speak more than a thousand words, and hence I will show you my first month through them! Life in the village is very chill, and people would often just sit under a tree a...
Read MoreTBH: The First Month(s) of a Bridge Year in Senegal
Wyatt Foster
2017-10-10
October 3, 2017 Anyone remember TBH’s? Talking about them now seems juvenile and trivial, but I remember at one point in middle school getting in a fight with one of my best friends because I didn’t write her a long enough TBH on her Facebook wall (don’t worry we made up love you Grace (:...
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Nicolas Livon-Navarro
2017-10-09
It’s really hard for me to sit here in front of my computer with a large white screen in front of me and try to put into words what my experience here is like. I learned in school that there are two types of experiences that circle around two types of happiness. The first is...
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