Fellow Stories
True gap year stories from Fellows abroad!
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Five-Star Food for Thought
Charlie Dickerson
2019-12-04
Now that I’ve been sick in bed all week and have finished every episode of Black Mirror, I guess all I’ve got left to do is catch up on the blogging. Before I get into the main topic of this post, I’ll provide a brief update on what I’ve been up to over the past...
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Daming Cui
2019-12-01
3 months in! It’s difficult not to synchronize your heart with the local vibrations as you arrive at a new place and open yourself to embrace your surroundings. The Portuguese language has complicated, beautiful subtleties in itself: sometimes concise, sometimes expressive, sometimes witty and sometimes melancholic (or, more accurately, filled with ~saudade). I first fell...
Read MoreA Day in the Ears of Celia
Celia Morton
2019-12-01
They repeat. Every hour, every day, every week. Sounds. Sounds which first took up so much of my headspace that I collapsed by the time the clock struck three, but which have now become the white noise in my head. It’s dawn and the parrots and squirrels are celebrating when I wake up at 6:10,...
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Being Grateful
Baseer Khan
2019-11-28
I’m going to start of this blog with a little flash back to my life exactly a year ago from now. The peak of the IB term 3 – commonly known as the hardest of all, where students would sleep an average of 4 hours a night and be working the rest of their days...
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A Day in the Life- Senegal
Sinead Nardi-White
2019-11-27
6:30 AM- wake up to a combination of my alarm clock, the multiple roosters and donkeys in the neighborhood, and the snorting of our horse who is tied up right outside my room (see photo of me, said horse, and the arm of a smart person who knew not to let me hold the horse alone...
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Time & Space
Sam Metzger
2019-11-23
Time and space are peculiar and complex topics to ponder upon to begin with. In Senegal, time and space are different from anything else I’ve ever experienced. Time is nonexistent, yet longer and somehow, almost magically, always right. Space is smaller, but only because it is shared. Time almost doesn’t exist here in Senegal. Do...
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Little Moments
Katie Mastriano
2019-11-22
Little Moments After two and half months and a tough beginning, I feel at home with my family of seven in Tivaouane, Senegal. I embrace the name given to me, Ramatoulaye, which means God’s Mercy. I am an only child in the States so five siblings has taken some time to get used to. Well,...
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Backyard Adventures
Angela Seo
2019-11-20
On my birthday, Oct. 11, I explored our backyard (since we couldn’t leave due to the protests) with my two host brothers, Angel and Mateo, and my host cousin, Josue. We walked around the perimeter of the field and they pointed out the different plants and fruits we saw. I also got to visit their...
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'Los
2019-11-19
I had an unrealistic or maybe just purposely blindsided idea of what my year would be like in Ecuador. I thought I would finally be able to catch up on all my sleep because I thought having a 6:00AM wakeup time was no more. Turns out, I was very wrong. My day starts promptly at...
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