2018-05-16
20th of M A R C H INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS The 20th of March I decided to reflect of 10 things that made this Global Citizen the happiest FELLOW in Brazil. I put the list in a small visual presentation with the intention to show some snapshots of my life there. Today,...
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Using the wrong verb conjugation. Lying to my host mother about my whereabouts to avoid trouble. Not drinking enough water or using enough sunscreen. All mistakes that I made over my bridge year. Misguided judgments are human nature and are bound to happen no matter how perfect we try to be. However, this fact that...
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Here’s the link to my Capstone video! [vc_video link=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikSlb894K6A&t=5s ‘] Throughout my time in Ecuador, and the process of blog-writing, it seemed impossible to put this experience into words. No matter how well I mastered the art of description, I knew that every reader would create their own version of this world in their mind....
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2018-05-14
This can be a simple or tricky question depending on how it is approached. It’s always easy to state the obvious: I am in Brazil. I am waiting for a bus. I am going to my apprenticeship. Although this is the truth, it is not the whole truth. There are so many other sides of...
Read More2018-05-13
Mataji 4:00am. I check my phone and see a long string of texts, exponentially increasing by the second, all sent within a minute. Fifteen texts. All from Mom. Oh, dear lord. “Hi Gemma.” “Gemma!!!!” “Gemmaaaaaa, where are you?????” “You haven’t sent me any pictures in a long time!!!!!!”...
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For my Global Citizen Year capstone project, I chose to cut up a video containing small one-second clips from several days of my bridge year. Although each clip is seemingly insignificant, as I strung them together, the collective experiences blossomed into something that symbolized my entire year; bits and pieces of memories woven into each...
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2018-05-10
I woke up that morning feeling terrible. It was a sunny day a long time back and despite feeling that awful I lugged myself out of bed and embarked on the four-hour journey to the Valle de Chota. It wasn’t a good idea to go up there, but everyone in my cohort was and I...
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