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Ethan Rose
2018-10-18
Welcome to my Global Citizen Year blog! Subscribe and follow along on on my adventures during my gap year abroad.
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Welcome to my blog!
Luis Juarez
2018-10-18
Welcome to my Global Citizen Year blog! Subscribe and follow along on on my adventures during my gap year abroad.
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Sophia Alfaro
2018-10-17
*Tch* Szo-Fi-Yahh. That’s the sound of whenever my host mom is disappointed or annoyed in something I did or didn’t do. One thing that I’ve loved about my host family is how immediately welcoming they are. How accepting they were and how respectful it was of them to allow me to serve myself however much...
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Barbara Peck
2018-10-17
I was warned about “Ecua-Time”. I was told that life followed a slower pace here and that people were always late. I was told that there would be a lot of down time, a lot of hours dedicated to just me and my thoughts. My reaction was, Perfect, that’s exactly what I need. Time to...
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Paula Medina
2018-10-16
10 Sept 2018 With every new sunrise, there’s laugh, heat and learnings. I feel I can now assure how essential language is. Without communication, there’s no interaction, and so there’s no socialisation, inhibiting life in society. With this feeling of chaos and lack of sense of belonging yet, I realise how humans are without doubt...
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What am I doing in Senegal? – Part 2
2018-10-15
Continuing from my first post, I am going to talk about my personal agenda in this one. Two weeks into Senegal, I have made up some expectations for myself such as learning languages, having a family and being fit. My first goal is learning languages because I believe that languages would be my lasting connection...
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To Be a Woman
Maria Bossert
2018-10-14
* I realize that I’m typing this with white knuckles. I realize that my jaw is tense as the I recall the words of recent headlines swirling in my brain. I realize that I’m biased, and I carry my biases with me in this blog post. However… This post is...
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