Fellow Stories

Facing Yourself In The Mirror, Lice and All

Sara Barac

2017-06-01

February 11th, 2017 Positivity, take one: I have lice and I love it. Also, I am lying. Only one of the statements above is true, and I’m sure that by now you have guess it is the loving it part. Yes, I have lice.  Positivity, take two: I hate washing my hair because it dries...

Was I going to find a Passion? A focus? or a hard lesson learned

Savier Morales

2017-06-01

So it's been interesting. Been different, feels odd, definitely a new chapter of life that was slapped in my face by a friend. Adventure has turned a shade more real, and yet I'm stuck. First off let me tell you I love Adventure, the unknown and mysterious with a tad bit danger is my favorite....

Cry Because It’s Over- A One-Minute Audible Capstone

Thea Holcomb

2017-06-01

When I left site, and later, left Re-entry training, I was among the Fellows who had visceral emotional reactions to the finality of the year. Nothing would ever be the same. Many Fellows, perhaps as a coping mechanism for their own feelings of loss, told me, “don’t cry,” or “don’t be sad!” Spacetime took me...

part 2

Rose Hoang

2017-06-01

2:00 PM   Home sweet home. Kick the shoes under the bed. Get into comfy clothes. Wait. 2:30 PM   Mama Maribel and Giuliana are home. We prepare lunch. In a traditional meal, soup is usually first. Then, the rice plate which usually includes some rice, salad, and some sort of vegetable – potatoes were...

Peek Into My Life: Now And Then

Rose Hoang

2017-06-01

Peek Into My Life: Now And Then   I am sitting back in the familiar pastel blue room that I share with my thirteen year old brother. It is one of those nights where I am frustrated at everything. That at 19 years old I cannot drive a car and cannot freely leave the house...

Saying Yes

Nathaly Romero

2017-06-01

They Just Did It

Nathaly Romero

2017-06-01

Just some people who followed their traveling dreams and reminded me to follow mine.   Sofia During our In-Country Orientation in Quito, we were given a project to explore a park called El Parque la Carolina and speak to anyone we met there. As we were strolling around we found ourselves meeting a young woman...

Notes From The Field

Nathaly Romero

2017-05-31

A few notes from the journal I kept to document my time in Ecuador (or at least try to). Hope you enjoy!   September 18, 2016 While at the market, I saw a kid chasing after a chicken and thought of nothing but that one scene in Mr. Bean's Holiday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3IVOiRFX3o   October 9, 2016...

A Photographic Expedition Into the Life and Times of Rëky Thiaw

Thea Holcomb

2017-05-31

Download full resolution images Available until Jun 30, 2017 Featured are six photos that provide a glimpse into my day-to day life in Senegal.   What we choose to share about ourselves tends to be aspirational. I may be the proudest owner of a pair Chacos (and the accompanying Chaco tan) to ever have existed....

7 Days of Gratitude: Day #3

Fernanda Savaris Nunes

2017-05-31

DAY #3: First Host Family My first host family was a gift from the universe of coincidences. Born in Cape Vert (and therefore a Portuguese speaker), my host mom was an angel who called me daughter from the first time we met. My host dad and I had very similar interests and opinions about politics,...

7 Days of Gratitude: Day #2

Fernanda Savaris Nunes

2017-05-31

DAY #2: Teranga Teranga is a Senegalese word for hospitality, and yes, it is the most cliché and the most beautiful thing I can talk about that country. Anyone really going to Senegal will learn this word on their first days there, but it takes more than a couple days to understand what it really...

Spring Haikus

Jamie Cohen

2017-05-31

March I’m a year older I have started counting days This is the last month April I can’t believe it  The day has come to say chao Where is my home now May Life here is normal Now I’m back in the desert  Only memories