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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Coming Together
Ananda Day
2009-09-27
He say “I know you, you know me” One thing I can tell you is you got to be free Come together right now over me -The Beatles Last Saturday, around 4pm Pacific Standard Time, the Founding Fellows of Global Citizen Year came together. Drawn from opposite sides of America, we were all a motley...
Read MoreInspiring Stories
Gaya Morris
2009-09-27
At the risk of sounding cliche, I would just like to say that the past few days have been some of the most inspiring and stimulating of my life. From our vantage point up here in the hills of the Intitute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, CA, spending one pleasant hour after the next listening...
Read MoreDay Recap: David Abernethy, Nathaniel Whittemore
Ian Zimmermann
2009-09-23
David Abernethy, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Stanford, was introduced by Abby Falik as one of the single most important people in engaging her in global development. He described development in terms of different groups; personal development focuses on our capacity to handle problems while the development of human “groups” will focus more specifically...
Read MoreA few days ago = a thousand miles, tears, laughs and thoughts ago
Gaya Morris
2009-09-22
An excerpt from my moleskin entitled On the plane to California: Finally. Life feels like it has not been lived for the past week. Only one thing on my mind, guiding my every action: this departure. It felt/feels like a point of no return and I wanted to make sure that I didn’t leave anything...
Read MoreDay 3: Center for Creative Leadership
Alec Yeh
2009-09-22
The organization, Center for Creative Leadership visited IONS today to teach us all about creative leadership. Their focus was to help us discover what kind of leader we are and how we can improve our human connections and collaborations to become better leaders. Our facilitators were Joel Wright and Sarah Miller. Joel and Sarah have...
Read MoreTraining: Day 1
Victoria Tran-Trinh
2009-09-21
This is going to be a stub of an entry because I am flat-out exhausted. I just want to let everyone know that I’ve arrived at the training institution at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and it is beautiful! The scenery and the landscape are amazing. We had our first meeting with everyone in an...
Read MoreDear family,
Michael Wilson
2009-09-21
Dear Mom, Dad, Matt, and family, These last few days, weeks, and months of my time at home have really brought out the depth of our familial bonds and have served to emphasize the significance the last eighteen years has had on my life. The frantic packing escapade managed to distract me from some of...
Read MorePivotal Moment
Marguerite LeLaurin
2009-09-18
oh heavens – Inevitably my life is changing, and with it so must I. I feel the perpetual momentum of time, always moving, pushing and prodding, propelling me forward. Days slide through and behind me, passing, approaching with frantic pace to my departure – the pivotal moment. From this point, for me, nearly everything will be...
Read Morewith question marks in my eye
Victoria Tran-Trinh
2009-09-18
As the only fellow who has yet to write a blog post, I'm forcing myself to write today - only three days before our Global Citizen Years officially start - out of guilt and a little bit of embarrassment.
Read MoreSeeds at the Farmer’s Market
Gaya Morris
2009-09-08
I am writing on the train, or on the “T” as we like to call it here in Boston, rushing off to work (I am a hostess at an Italian restaurant in Cambridge) after a wonderful morning at the Hingham Farmer’s market on behalf of GCY. The Farmer’s Market, set up in a parking lot...
Read MoreMany, Many Faces: a fundraising art project!
Gaya Morris
2009-09-04
As you may already have heard, each GCY fellow has committed to fundraise a minimum of 2000 dollars before our departure. We have been writing letters, emails, talking to friends and family and some fellows have even hosted events in their home communities. The idea is that, besides of course raising needed funds, we will...
Read MoreFundraising
Hilary Brown
2009-09-03
Asking for money is not a skill that comes easily. In high school instead of selling a hundred dollars worth of chocolate like I was supposed to I often paid the school and gave the chocolate to my friends so I would not “bother” anyone. Therefore, the task of raising two thousand dollars for the...
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