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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The Super Bowl in Cuenca
Merle Nye
2017-03-30
I decided a fun bonding with my new host family, who is very interested in American culture, would be treating them to some hamburgers while watching the Super Bowl. As you might imagine, American football’s popularity here is comparable with that of watching rugby or Cricket in the United States. Still, I had confidence that...
Read MoreMy Global Citizen Year Apprenticeship video
Merle Nye
2017-03-30
I recently put together some footage I had of my apprenticeship to give friends and family an idea of what my apprenticeship is here in Ecuador. [vc_video link=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAP9rHI0h0&t=57s’]
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Kenya Barbosa-McCauley
2017-03-30
At a goodbye party last night I gave a speech entirely in Portugues written by me. Here below is what I delivered… since it was written in portugues I made a translation in English all though it is not exact because so many things cannot be expressed in English… I wasn’t able to attach the...
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Reflections about an unexpected gap-year experience in a nursing home.
Noemi Liebe
2017-03-29
The summer after I finished high school I felt pretty invincible. I had spent my teenage years striving for bigger things, grabbing every opportunity to learn and explore, challenging myself and working towards getting better. This earned me a scholarship to study my two last years of high school abroad, which was an opportunity that...
Read MoreNo hay vida sin agua
Ana Gvozdic
2017-03-25
The view of the Andean mountains warms up my heart. If there is one thing I fell in love with here, it is the nature and the indigenous environmental movements. The more hikes and lectures I attend, the more fascinated I am by their ideology. One concept I learned about is sumak kawsay, the idea...
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DINDEFELO NIGHTS
Mariana Ossa
2017-03-23
First thought in my mind when I think about Nights back home its late night Netflix watching and lying on my couch after a long day of school and work. In my homestay of Dindefelo nights are much distinct from what I’m used to in the U.S. As the sun starts to set in between...
Read MoreWhat it means to be African American in Sénégal
Jabari Gambrel
2017-03-22
What it means to be African American in Sénégal Invisible. When I arrived in Senegal I had the idea that I was going home. Home, that is what everyone called it, from family members to, church woman in bright colored dresses, almost all exclaimed, “you get to go back, you get to see Africa, you...
Read MoreThe Ultimate Travel Playlist
Emma Sexton
2017-03-22
With love from a fellow bridge year kid, here are the top 10 songs that helped me embrace the highs and lows of spending eight months abroad with Global Citizen Year before selling my sou- I mean, heading to college. Never Come Back Again by Austin Plaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REUPPN33tBs The Lyrics: I wanna see the world,...
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My Tribute to Thama
Emma Sexton
2017-03-22
20/03/2017 This afternoon, my host grandparents left Pune and flew back to their home in Delhi. Just minutes before they packed into the cozy family car, we all stood in the living room hugging and saying emotional goodbyes. After Thama, my grandma, finished enveloping me in one of the warmest, most loving hugs I’ve...
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