Fellow Stories

My Apprenticeship

Skyler Narotsky

2016-06-06

During my seven months in Cañar, I spent much of my time working at a local organization called Mushuk Yuyay. Kichwa for “new way of thinking,” Mushuk Yuyay is an agricultural organization whose structure consists of two parts: the Coop and the Association. The Coop serves as a community bank, holding people’s money as well...

SPEAK UP – THE HEART

Austin Nguyen

2016-06-05

So in Global Citizen Year, we have a something called a speakup – basically, it’s a fellow’s time to get up in front of a selected audience and talk about whatever they want. It can be advice, a story, a really heavy moment – whatever! Afterwards, the fellow is given constructive criticism, so it’s a...

One month breathing has got me where?

Rosalie Bull

2016-06-02

I haven’t quite liked coming home. There have been moments of course, where happiness and familiarity and home flood into me like a long past due breath of oxygen, and I wonder where all my sticky resistance to this place comes from, and how I’ve gone so long without my family and my room and...

This is how I will save the world.

Indiana Nunez Sharer

2016-06-01

   When I was young, I wanted to save the world.    Before falling asleep I would lay in the darkness of my room hearing the movement of my fan as it rotated in uncoordinated circles. I didn’t know how I would create this change, but I imagined myself there, anywhere, feeling the splendor of...

Why don’t more students take gap years?

Hugo Santiago

2016-06-01

Are you thinking about taking a bridge/gap year after high school, but keep running into doubts and self-discouraging thoughts? Here are 4 reasons to put away those excuses and get ready for adventure!   Just a year ago, I was contemplating whether I should follow the norm by going to college after high school or...

Stories to Tell

Elizabeth Schubert

2016-06-01

On the third day in my host family, I woke with a pit in my stomach and tears in my eyes.  I tried to suppress it for a while, but then ran to my host mom.  I was barely able to get out “Can I call my mom?” before bursting into tears.  Later that night...

Catching a move in Senegal

Josue Morales Vivas

2016-06-01

Capstone Video

Maya Panicker

2016-05-31

Click here to watch my capstone video!

Coming home

Trina Olsen

2016-05-30

I’ve been home from Ecuador for about a month and a half now. Being home, I’ve realized how much it’s changed my life. Before living in Ecuador, I had lived in the same place all my life. Now, I have this experience living in another world. I find myself constantly thinking about the differences between...