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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And so I went to teach
Kirin Gupta
2011-07-28
An artist who bridged the distance from Nuku’alofa, Tonga to Washington, D.C. Having begun with Global Citizen Year, a new sort of awareness prompts me to take second glances in places where I would not customarily look carefully. It is something to be grateful for, I am sure, for beyond that understanding, once it can...
Read MoreCuriosity and Discovery
Lily Ellenberg
2011-07-28
Hello, my name is Lily Ellenberg. I have lived in Portland, Oregon my entire life (so far), and I just graduated from the Catlin Gabel School. I went to Catlin for fifteen years, the vast majority of my life thus far. Both my parents work at the school, and my little sister also attends. In...
Read MoreGlobal Citizen Year: My Gateway from High School to Sociology
Lucias Potter
2011-07-15
My name is Lucias Potter. I am from Oakland, California where I spend most of my time advocating for social justice, writing, or spending time with my cousins. I believe that the human race has a responsibility to make sure everyone can live comfortably. I believe that when people give power to their government to...
Read MoreFrom my current placement to my future placement
Stephanie Zambrano
2011-07-15
Hello, my name is Stephanie Juanita Zambrano. I am 18 years of age and I live in inner-city Oakland, California. In my community there are a lot of ignorant people and a lot of violence that takes place, as many of you know by my description of my home town as being “inner-city”. A lot of people, when surrounded...
Read MoreWhy I chose Global Citizen Year
Elizabeth Warren
2011-07-14
I already knew I wanted to take a year off, one of the main reason being I had changed my mind on what I wanted to do and major in at least twenty times. I didn’t want to go to college unsure and I thought a year off would be great. Now all I had...
Read MoreThe Book Called Life
Brian Baylor
2011-07-14
All my life I’ve wanted to travel the world, whether I were to kayak in the Egyptian Nile, snowboard down the side of the Switzerland Alps, backpack Europe or even explore the rain forest. I’ve wanted to see more then what I just watched on television. My family wasn’t wealthy but my parents are working...
Read MoreTravel Bug
Tessalyn Morrison
2011-07-14
To say that I have caught the travel bug would be a little bit of an understatement. I have caught the travel elephant and am enjoying every ride. Travel has become a passion of mine and has given me more exposure to the world than I can handle at some points. In this extremely malleable...
Read MoreThe Experience of a Lifetime
Emily Hanna
2011-07-11
Growing up, it seemed like every single one of my peers had a special talent; each friend had something they excelled at, something that set them apart from the rest. There were my athletic friends, my musical friends, my academically successful friends…but try as I might, I could never quite find the discipline that suited...
Read MoreGrowing in Union
Samuel Parson
2011-07-09
Bonjur, comment alle-vous? Oh, hey, you just caught me practicing my French! I’m going to need that skill to voice myself out in Senegal Africa, where I’ll be making my stay as a Global Citizen Year fellow. Well, in case you don’t know me, my name is Samuel Parson. As I was born into the...
Read MoreGIRRRRL YOU CRAZY!!
Alexis Adams
2011-07-08
“Hey mom, I don’t think I want to go to college–at least not right now” “Hahahahaha (hysterical laughter) what are you talking about?” “I mean I know eventually I want to go–its just right now I’m so fed up and done with school, I want to do something different! I want to learn, grow, find...
Read MoreOrganization of thoughts
Holli Sullivan
2011-07-08
I never thought a summer job at a restaurant could teach me so many things. I currently work at Antelope Point Marina on Lake Powell, the world’s largest floating restaurant. A sudden shortage of staff led to having no other choice but to have half of the employees work more or less 14 hour days,...
Read MoreA Whole Different World
Adolfo Leon Jr
2011-07-08
Hey everyone, my name is Adolfo Leon, Jr. Before I heard about Global Citizen Year I had no idea where I was going after high school. I knew that I wanted to keep studying and attend college, but I was not to excited about it and I did not feel prepared. One day I was...
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