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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From Tivaouane to Dougnane
Gloria Kirk
2017-02-08
Returning from a trip into the city on a horse cart. My favorite way to meet people and practice Laalaa. Click below to have a listen!
Read MoreA Disclaimer
Thea Holcomb
2017-02-08
If you ask me right now how I am doing in Senegal, or this spring, if you ask me, “how was Senegal?” I’ll tell you about how it’s been a wonderful experience, thanks to an astonishingly generous scholarship, and I’ve grown so much, and how it’s also been incredibly challenging. If you pry a bit...
Read MoreLunch With a Monk
Alejandro Flores Monge
2017-02-07
I am often asked the question, "Why India?" I never hesitated to answer, but I was never totally convinced of my response. Thinking back makes me wonder if anybody else believed me. In a sense, I did become very good at lying simply because I was afraid of admitting to anyone, including myself, that I...
Read MoreA shortcut to creativity
Ana Gvozdic
2017-02-06
I have never really seen myself as an artistic, creative person. Most of my friends tried to counter that point by bringing up my background as a dancer, but that never really worked for me. I see my dance as a sport, rather than an art or a way to express myself, because my strength...
Read MoreThe Price to Pay for Ambition
Kai Milici
2017-02-01
Let me paint a picture of “family” in my 1200-person town of Imbaya. My mom Mayrita, dad Segundo, brother Paul, and sister Mishell live with me in the center of town. Right next door is my abuelita Blancita who runs a tienda and a merienda restaurant outside of her kitchen every day. Upstairs is her...
Read MoreA glance of my day
Natalia Plancarte
2017-02-01
BEEP BEEP BEEP that’s my alarm going off at six fifteen in the morning and that’s how I know my day is about to begin. I get out my bed and splash cold water on my face to wake myself up. After this I head into the bathroom to shower. Then I change into my...
Read MoreUau!
Alondra Quiles
2017-01-24
Back in the states, it was never really a day by day interaction that I faced with people of different cultures.Yet, at the same time it was. Although the United States is very diverse, I never really realized how normal it was. In fact, everyone I interacted with was either a Spanish speaker or an...
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The Epiphany of Utterly Underwhelming Travel
Sophia Pandelidis
2017-01-24
With my stomach lurching at each swell in the waves, jellyfish welts running up my arm, and my skin prickling with cold, I thought, This cannot get worse. The nauseating boat ride back from Isla de la Plata was absolutely the cherry on top to an utterly underwhelming, sometimes hilariously horrible trip to Southern Ecuador...
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A Green(ga) Christmas
Rose Hoang
2017-01-24
This was my first time celebrating Christmas away from home and everything that comes with: bomb Vietnamese food, the aunts and uncles you see a few times a year, the comfort of knowing everyone and feeling like this is exactly where you should be, the lame traditions, cute family photos and the easiness of things....
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