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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A Few Words About Words
Rachel Swartz
2015-05-04
Words. Letters together to form sounds in which we add intonation to drive our meaning- to show feeling. We are here in a place where the words you know are neither heard nor said- so you scream them- left with only you to hear the voice in your head. It’s time to take the time...
Read MoreWays To Grow
Aiman Ahmad Marzio
2015-04-18
April 3rd, 2015. Damay nyibi dek. (I’m going home.) Kan ngay nyibi? (When?) Mardi bi di new. (Next Tuesday) Loolu gaw na. Do togg ba ci kanam. Fii dina wet. Dinanu la namm! (That’s so soon. You should stay longer. We’re all going to miss you!) Man tamit, dinaa leen namm loll… (I’m going to...
Read MoreOpen April 18th
Grace Mannix
2015-04-18
Dearest family and friends, I only have one more card to open for the plane ride home and thought it was way past time for me to write you back. Can you believe how little time is left until I see you again?! I often wonder where the time went and how I spent the...
Read Morecasca de abÌ_bora
Pooja Thekdi
2015-04-12
As summer turns to fall here in Ponta Grossa, a new array of crops are beginning to g r o w. On Fridays, my host family and I spend the evenings preparing for the Saturday market, washing the last bit of alface and repolho in the buckets and carrying the heavy boxes of chestnuts and...
Read MoreTanguets
Jaxom Moore
2015-04-10
There’s one thing about my life that I will never be able to hide: I was raised in the city. Before this Global Citizen Year experience I lacked the knowledge, openness, confidence, or experience to imagine myself in a place like Macacu, but this was my year to learn. In my time here I’ve fed...
Read MoreHidden Gems
Jaxom Moore
2015-04-10
Brazil has been hard. Not one single moment has been wasted in teaching me an important message or point. Everything about life: morality, happiness, success, and health have been thrown at us. More often than not all of it at once. The first month of our permanent homestay was the worst for me. Right after...
Read MoreBursting the bubble of a Single Story Christmas
Paulina Jedrzejowski
2015-04-06
White powdery snow covers the front sidewalk in the city that never sleeps as the last bell of the year rings. The warm sofa heated by the fireplace invites children as they cuddle under blanket holding a cup of fresh hot cocoa. My dad drives to upstate New York to bring back hay that we...
Read MoreA few thoughts from Paulinas desk
Paulina Jedrzejowski
2015-04-06
Last Wednesday I came home from Garopaba, and I started to think about whatåÊa friend and I spoke about on the bus going back home that night. The fear of leaving behind childhood, the fear of entering the unknown world of adulthood. This year is important – I made a significant break in my education...
Read MoreAn Overdue Blog Post
Grace Mannix
2015-04-04
It’s always wonderful to be present when a child is in the midst of discovery. Yesterday, I watched a six year old boy named Hamdi listen to music with an MP3 player for the first time. Someone put the earphones in for him and passed him the phone, and we waited to see his adorable...
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