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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When Reality Hits
Glory Jacquat
2017-09-02
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, heard, or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”-Helen Keller. As I write this blog from the bus on the way to SFO, I await the moment where it hits me, the feeling that I am embarking on an incredible journey,...
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The Places You’ll Go And The People You’ll Meet
Alexi Strike
2017-09-02
With pre-departure training coming to a close, I felt it best to fill my first blog post with a small chunk of newly-learned information. One thing that has really stuck around with me after this week is the classification of facts about oneself. I've met so many amazing people this week and I felt that...
Read MoreThe Beginning
Isabelle Johnson
2017-09-01
Packing up my life into a few bags and leaving home (yet again) was not as easy as it had been four years ago. When I was 15, I felt more then ready to leave home. I rushed through goodbyes and swallowed the salty tears almost effortlessly. I craved adventure…and was lucky enough to have...
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A Fast and Furious week
Sophie Winter
2017-09-01
The week has flown by in a flurry of lectures, field trips, impressive games of sharks and minnows, and finally learning about the tools that are necessary to aid us in the year to come. I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting 130 other 18 year olds who chose to take a bridge year and who share...
Read MoreExtinguishing Doubts- Diego Lasner
Diego Lasner
2017-09-01
Having a nervous mind usually leaves me questioning every decision I make, including this one. I have a hard time settling on a commitment in fear of missing out of my perfect path. In other words, I have an obsession with trying to figure out what will be best for me. At this moment, Global...
Read MoreWhy everybody can be a leader
Sophie Schonbach
2017-09-01
I believe for one to join a program such as Global Citizen Year it takes a rather cheesy, naive and idealistic dreamer. It takes someone who is looking beyond their horizon with an indescribable curiosity to listen to the stories that humans as equal as ourselves are telling every day around the globe. It takes...
Read MoreSo this is how it happened, my Global Family is expanding into Brazil!
Juliana Trujillo Mesa
2017-08-31
Looking back, I will never forget the day when while having what seemed to be a typical afternoon in UWC Mahindra College, right before everyone gets really busy and emails cease to be checked, an email changed it all. I opened an email that sparked my curiosity as it contained a document which explained how...
Read MoreOrienting Myself to Orientation
Toluwani Roberts
2017-08-30
This week is nothing like I expected. I told one of my mentors before I arrived at Global Citizen Year’s Program Launch that I was least excited about this first week. I hate orientations: the hyperactivity, anxious kindness, the leech of fresh and desperate “friendships”. Disgusting, right? Yeah, I’m not with it. I wanted to...
Read MoreWhy Fear is Good
Sarah Candee
2017-08-28
The last time I flew into SFO I held the hand of a strange woman during takeoff; I feared flying alone. Now, less than two years later, I’m on a flight to SFO again and the two seats beside me are empty. My fear today is different. My fear is not of a rough flight...
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