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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7 Things I will miss about Senegal
Fernanda Savaris Nunes
2017-02-23
I frequently compile lists in my head. Places I want to visit, inspiring people I have met, moments I want to write about… I even have a list of the lists I want to write one day. So I guess now’s a good time to cross one of these out… Here goes a list of...
Read MoreAn Interview with My High School
Kai Milici
2017-02-16
My high school newspaper interviewed me for an article they are doing on gap years. Thinking about the questions allowed me to look back on why I decided to do this year and to see how my mindset has changed as the months have passed. I think these answers give a pretty comprehensive view of...
Read MoreOusmane Unchained: Now That’s Accurate
Nicholas Montano
2017-02-13
During my first 3 to 4 months in Senegal, the only movie I possessed was Django Unchained. I have watched Django countless of times to the point where it is singed into my brain. One afternoon, I purchased a slingshot at the local market that arrives every Sunday. Most of my free afternoons consisted of...
Read MoreThe Future
Natalia Plancarte
2017-02-10
Rihan Shaik Rihan is nine years old, in fourth grade and his favorite subject is math. He likes to play soccer and Kabbadi. When Rihan grows up he wants to become an engineer, because he likes math. Rihan wants to create airplanes and help make machines that will help make people’s lives easier. He hopes...
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Immersed At Last, Immersed At Last
Phoebe Park
2017-02-10
Live with a family. Have a local job. Go deeper than a traveler. Become part of a community and make a meaningful and informed contribution. Go from they to we. On Global Citizen Year’s website, immersion is defined in this way. I’ve heard the word a hundred times before and during this program thus far,...
Read MoreThis is Ecuador: Musica
Sophia Pandelidis
2017-02-08
Music is an integral part of my every day life here in Ecuador, whether it be listening to "Safari" ten thousand times with the teenagers in the kitchen where I work, dancing to Widinson Bomba with my three year old sister before dinner, diligently learning the lyrics to "Chantaje" with my ten year old brother,...
Read MoreBlue. Sir.
Holt Mettee
2017-02-08
Two white roosters eat rice spilled on the ground outside next to an empty pack of Sir cigarettes matching their red combs, white feathers. Inside, Baaba sits on the blue plastic chair in front of yellow wall. Listens to the radio placed in front of blue curtain in doorway. Peanut shells at feet. The two...
Read MorePink.
Holt Mettee
2017-02-08
Today it rained. The low tiled and mosaic alleys that separate concrete pastel houses flooded into rushing orange brown rivers, picking up pieces of litter and orange flowers from the trees. The prayer from the nearby mosque harmonizes with the francophone hip hop playing on the kitchen radio. Pots and pans, sizzling fish and the...
Read MoreFirst.
Holt Mettee
2017-02-08
My host sister knocks on my door and hands me a glass of pale pink-ish orange-ish juice (the same color as the house, my bedroom walls a few shades paler), says “I like you” and walks away. My new name is Aida. My bed sheets are purple with printed flowers. My host brother watches French...
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