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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Quilotoa Loop Backpacking Photos
Aden Fischer-Brown
2017-08-02
In early February I took a backpacking trip with three members of my Regional Cohort, Sahar, Lily and Phoebe. After two days of intense hiking, we reached the Laguna Quilotoa, a beautiful crater lake. Here are some photos!
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Snapshots From Salvador, Bahia
Amari Leigh
2017-07-13
After an exciting experience in the magical city of Rio de Janiero, we boarded the plane to another one of Brazil's most prized metropolises-Salvador, the capital city of Bahia. Below are some highlights from the five days we spent in this colorful city! Formerly the capital of Portugal’s New World colony from 1549 to 1763,...
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Religion?
Caroline Montag
2017-06-09
“The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.” This is the definition of religion given by the oxford dictionary. But what is religion really? Where does it come from? Why do we put ourselves into religious groups? Why is religion sometimes being used for power? Am I...
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7 Days of Gratitude: Day #5
Fernanda Savaris Nunes
2017-06-07
DAY #5: My bike. There am I, having driving lessons and thinking how boring, wasteful and expensive it is to drive places. I miss being able to ride my bike everywhere. I miss feeling the wind on my face while watching hyped up kids yelling "TUBAAB, TUBAAB!" in the streets. I miss the freedom...
Read MoreA Video from my Trip into the Amazon
Helene Farrell Bee
2017-06-05
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Read MoreWhen Foreign Cuisines Enter Brazil’s Border
Will Kosling
2017-06-04
Brazilians have a way of making their food look undeniably brazilian. Whether it’s adding way to much sugar to coffee or putting meat in literally everything, in spite of the fact that it may be a vegetarian dish. This dish may look as familiar to you as it does foreign, but maybe the...
Read Morethe foundation of Brazilian culture
Will Kosling
2017-06-04
Sitting at the very base of Brazilian culture: food, seemingly simple, yet it has a strong ability to bring people together. Much of Brazil’s cultural diversity derives from it’s epic diversity of cuisine throughout different regions of the country. Food in Brazil contrasts drastically from North to South. This dish, pictured...
Read MoreA Família de meu Coração
Will Kosling
2017-06-04
It should come as no surprise that one of the largest influences during my bridge year was my Brazilian host family, the Pereira’s. My host family, host parents especially, are a very traditional family who ran a local bakery for the past 24 years.. My host parents were both born and raised in the community...
Read MoreLast words
Karina Lisboa Båsund
2017-06-02
I was writing my final blogpost about how I'm feeling now, having left Senegal and being back home. And though this blogpost is my last, I'm making it short, for I've understood and accepted that there's no real answer to what being "done" with this experience feels like. All I can say is that, like anything...
Read MoreNew School
Agustina Romero
2017-06-02
In my first poem I wrote,about a new life beginning,but not changes I could note. It's been 8 monthssince thenso let me now tell youhow life has been. India life was colourfulbut at times really dark.It wasn't always Bollywood,some things left a mark. The chapati was goodand so were the dosasbut I also discoveredI didn't like...
Read More“Educado” vs Educated
Fernanda Tornell
2017-06-02
I am currently in the process of applying somewhere (where is not important in this context) and in order to get in I had to write an essay. The essay required me to answer a couple of questions in less than 500 words, one of them being What is the role of education in your...
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March- Last full month in Ecuador
Isabelle Szabo
2017-06-02
Last market day at the farm Last few days with my host family The goodbye
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