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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10 Things You Might Not Have Known About India
Alana Poole
2016-04-02
1. Dancing Queens You don’t have to be seventeen or female to be a dancing queen! Everyone in India is a dancing queen regardless of age and gender. Bollywood, Garba, Dandiya, Sambalpuri, Lavani, Bharatnatyam…the list goes on! These dances, both modern and traditional, are completely enjoyable and ridiculously fun. This photo was taken during Dussehra,...
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Hannah Cho
2016-03-31
September 29, 2015 After having taken several hearty naps throughout the day earlier, I am not tired and have trouble falling asleep. Then, like clockwork, at midnight by bladder calls. I lay awake in bed, arguing with myself for half an hour before I can no longer take the pressure and decide that I cannot fall asleep before I have...
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Careless Heroes, Hidden Saviours
Munyaradzi Munyati
2016-03-30
Being a comic nerd, I’ve always had an obsession with caped vigilantes, swooping in to save the world and prevent the evils from coming out on top. From Spiderman, to Nightwing, I’ve always imagined myself with their abilities, making a difference out there in the world. But it’s my time here in Ecuador that has...
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Water: a photo essay
Brooke Donner
2016-03-29
Here’s a look at how we use water around my host family’s compound in Kédougou, Senegal. My neighbor’s well was our primary source of water until it and most other wells in the neighborhood dried up in late February. I’ve been getting my drinking water from this well pump since I arrived in...
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Noah Hapke
2016-03-26
If I were to list every individual aspect of growth that I have seen in myself this year, this would be a very long(er) blog. From overall global perspective to my favorite act of showing “curiosity before judgement” to maintaining self-awareness, this year has given me the opportunity to become a person I am proud...
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Emery Harwell
2016-03-21
I haven’t been keeping up with this blog nearly as much as I intended to, and for that I apologize. I’ve hit my required amount for Global Citizen Year, and it would be pretty easy to just kinda drop off on these little updates. However, I do feel the responsibility to let all of y’all...
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Better Late Than Never… A Word To My Chilca Kiddos/ The Big One-Nine
Miyo McGinn
2016-03-19
To the dear kids from the Chilcatotora elementary school: I’m going to try to put into words the warm fuzzy feeling I get whenever I think of y’all, which is at it’s simplest a deep gratitude and fondness. I’ve never been in a classroom like yours before; twenty kids, spanning seven grades, with one teacher, most of you...
Read MoreBetter Late Than Never… Carnaval Highlight!
Miyo McGinn
2016-03-19
“Nooooooo!” Laughing hysterically, I run back to where I’d stashed my phone earlier to protect it from the liquids flying around. I turn back around as soon as I find it, trying to get to the tanks of water in time to take a video of Elena – the other Fellow in Tarqui – being thrown in. But...
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The River
Allison Douma
2016-03-19
One of the first things that I learned about my village of Mako was that the Gambie river flows right through the middle of it. I grew up in Richmond, Virginia where we call ourselves “The River City”, so I was beyond excited to have a river in my new home because it would feel...
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