A Glimpse of My Four Days a Week
Emily Hess
2011-02-03
When life isn’t crazy and unexpected, this is my four days a week.
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Archives: Fellow Updates
Why a gap year?
Michaela Kobsa Mark
2011-02-02
Note: I was going to talk about how today I brutally scaled, beheaded, and disemboweled a fish, as part of today’s Cebu Djin preparation; however, I felt that as I have not done an adequate job in posting up blogs, I owed GCY fellows, parents, and supporters an explanation of where exactly I have been...
Read MoreA Global Perspective
Mathew Davis
2011-02-01
Thinking about issues and problems on such a sweeping scale, with so many layers and complexities, planning for my own future now seems easier than ever before.
Read MoreUnderstanding my sister
Clara Sekowski
2011-01-31
I’ve been an only child my whole life, so sometimes it’s hard to understand what goes on in a sibling kind of relationship in the US, and especially here. Especially when last week my family tried to tell me that my sister was stupid. I repeated, “Stupid?” “No,” they shook their heads, “more than that.”...
Read MoreTeaching English in Zuleta
Caroline Pocock
2011-01-31
Here is a short video of me teaching English to a third grade class at the public elementary school in Zuleta, where I have my apprenticeship.
Read MoreFinding a Balance
Peter Saudek
2011-01-28
When I arrived in Ibarra and began my apprenticeship, the first month and a half I felt like I had very little “to do,” no structure in my days. Needless to say, I spent lots of time feeling unproductive and useless. Three months later, I’m teaching English classes six days a week, working in the...
Read MoreApplying principles of “good” development
Caroline Pocock
2011-01-28
The media wants us to believe that making a positive impact on the world is as easy as writing a check to that organization with the commercial that makes us all tear up. But, as a culmination of several discussions and my own observations here, I’m realizing that social impact is much more like a...
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