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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This is to the people we meet.
Josue Morales Vivas
2016-05-29
Life is a mystery. It’s full of hellos and goodbyes. People come and go as I write, but there’s some who never go; they take a spot right beside you and stay to enjoy the jazz of life. These people might or might not be physically with you, but it doesn’t matter because there’s bonds...
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Capstone
Mandula Bashu van den Berg
2016-05-20
Yet another attempt to answer that eternal question: “How was India?”
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‘Too much salt’
Mandula Bashu van den Berg
2016-05-16
Throughout the last months of my stay in India, I put a lot of effort in my so called Final Community Project. ‘Too much salt’, a street art project on domestic violence was supposed to be an attempt to demonstrate my learnings and give something, however small, ‘back’ to my community. At first, I was...
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My Host Family
Skyler Narotsky
2016-05-07
Hey there my awesome blog subscribers. I thought I'd use this blog to tell you all about my host family, the lovely people I lived with throughout my seven months in Cañar. My host family consists of six people, not including myself. There's Hatun Mama (grandma), Mama Carmela (mom), Tía María (aunt), Geovanny (brother), Lourdes...
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From the Wide Open Place
Maria Morava
2016-05-05
The first thing I noticed when I returned were the trees. We rode in a bus through the Redwoods, my heart leaping anxiously every time I forgot we were in a vehicle, which was often (there were no bumps on this road). It was curvy, and with every turn I was irrationally convinced we would...
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In the Efforts of Being Honest
Talia Bailes
2016-04-21
There are tons of thoughts going through my mind now that I am back in Cincinnati. Listen to hear just a little bit about what it has been like to be back “home.”
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Allison Douma
2016-04-19
The last video and blog post in my Women of Senegal series is about my mom or “Nene”. The video focuses on the small community garden we made with the money that I got from Global Citizen Year for my final community project and the bigger community garden that we want to make in the...
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