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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Notes from the Field
Lily Jorrick
2016-10-28
One month ago, I moved to San Bartolome, Azuay, Ecuador, and I have been living here with the family Delgado Dominguez ever since. San Bartolome is a tiny town known for farming apples and for producing hand crafted guitars. It is high up in the Sierra, meaning that it’s very cold a lot of the...
Read MoreMy Favourite Adventure
Agustina Romero
2016-10-26
It’s definitely true that living in India is an adventure. However, sometimes, it’s not an adventure in the conventional way. Many people see adventures as endless hikes on amazing mountains (checked) or trying how much spice the human body can hold (very little in my case) or getting to know a new language by being...
Read MoreWhat stays the same, doesn’t do so for too long.
Angus Larsen
2016-10-25
It has been two weeks since I moved in with my new host family, but there has been much more that has come along with that. It feels as though my whole routine here has now made a 180 degree turn and there is much more on the exterior to observe and write about, so...
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Learning like a Child
Noa Bridson
2016-10-24
One might assume, as I initially had, that turning 19 and moving half way across the world to a foreign land meant I had finally “grown up”. However, literally every conversation I have, every thing I try to do here, I am reminded how much of a baby I am. Instead of asking, “why the water...
Read MoreAmar sem palavras
Alondra Quiles
2016-10-22
I have a super cool 8 year old host brother by the name: Ignacio. Ignacio has big, bright, blue eyes and really long eyelashes. No lie, the longest lashes I have ever seen in my life. But Ignacio is a little special, because he isn’t your average 8 year old boy. He can’t talk. He...
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My apprenticeship
Merle Nye
2016-10-19
I’ve often talked with my mom, a high school teacher, about the seven fifty minute periods at her high school being crazy and wondered how she could be expected to keep track of grades for two hundred plus kids, let alone remember their names. So far, my teaching schedule here has made that look like...
Read More10 Things to Know About Quito
Lily Jorrick
2016-10-19
Quito is Ecuador’s capital city, boasting over 2 million people. It’s one of the most hectic and diverse cities I’ve ever visited, and I spent three weeks living there with a host family during In-Country Orientation. While this list hardly begins to summarize Quito, here are some of the best things I learned while I...
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YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN ECUADOR WHEN…
Hanna Karnei
2016-10-17
Since I moved to Ecuador two months ago, I’ve been constantly finding myself surprised, charmed and amazed by the local culture. Here are a few glimpses into what I think makes Ecuador the way it is. 1. You master the skill of getting off the bus while it is moving. In rural areas of...
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Where in the World is She?
Noa Bridson
2016-10-09
Three years away from home, three hours North of Quito and three weeks living here in rural Ecuador, I find myself crouched in my bedroom collecting beetles for dinner as I listen to the synchronized squeals of the guinea pigs and my 2 year old brother. Much has happened since I first arrived weeks ago, and while...
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