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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2019-06-02

Final week in Brazil The last week of the crazy long 8 month gap year. It was a week in the same hotel we stayed in our first week in Brazil and it was pretty cool. You see the first hotel we stayed at had the BEST food. So to know we would be back...

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Day to Day

2019-06-02

Completely aware of the fact that blog-writing isn’t my strongest method of sharing my experience, I’ve neglected it a bit throughout the real meat-and-potatoes portion of my gap year. Also aware of the fact that I owe my ever-supportive friends and family the opportunity to learn about my time here, this blog will be as...

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At Home Rituals and Practices

2019-06-02

While in India, I lived with a spiritual counselor for the Hare Krishna community. My host mom maintained a high senior status within the Pune ISKCON temple, as she was one of the first devotees in the city and helped erect the first Hare Krishna temple in Pune. She is well known throughout Pune and...

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Blogs

2019-06-02

This was week one of Brazil during a pride parade. It was my first ever pride event and I saw this dude cruising around in a condom costume. Of course there was no other option except to score a picture with this dude. I executed the picture and even some random ass people joined in...

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The Bus Blog

2019-06-02

On the 45-minute Caieira da Barra do Sul bus route southward from my host house to the bottom of the island, there’s a view of the calm water between the island and the continent. Over the water you can see the hills of the mainland layered over each other with shades of blue or green, depending...

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I bet it makes you grateful…

2019-06-01

“I bet it makes you grateful to live in America!” Why do people keep saying this to me? I’m constantly, and expectedly asked “How was Brazil?” to which I give whatever awkward, short, and unthought-out attempt to summarize my year comes out first. And then the adult, always the fully-grown adult, replies with some version...

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Live From The Field

2019-06-01

                                            Daily Life of a Seminar Seminars are a gigantic part of the global citizen year life. Basically throughout the 8 months of the Gap year your whole country cohort gets together in either...

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missing home

2019-06-01

There seem to be no words to describe the feeling of being back.  The sadness occupying my mind and heart has had to make space for thoughts about the present and coming days, but its heaviness remains unchanged. However, I begin to feel something sprouting from exactly this yearning for my little Brazilian home: warm gratefulness, nourished by the painful yet happy remembrance...

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A letter to future me & thank you notes

2019-06-01

  Dear Ida,   Right now, we are about to graduate from Global Citizen Year (actually just a few minutes away from the deadline hehe), the program which decided to send us to Brazil (instead of Ecuador) – a decision that shaped our gap year with samba tunes, children’s happiness, and teachers’ struggles. I hope...

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Post GCY Final Thoughts

2019-06-01

Post GCY Final Thoughts I cannot believe that just two months ago I was a completely different person. Die Astou Samb. I remember the day that my father gave me that name. He named me after my older sister who was there when she gave it to me. She looked so embarrassed that so much...

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My Final Community Project

2019-06-01

My Final Community Project I decided to provide a small snippet of what my final community project was about. I had a blast working and connecting with the girls at Taiba Lycee. Below is an overview of what I did and a link to a small Google Slides presentation that I put together. In my...

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a retrospective look at February

2019-06-01

After looking at and listening to past journal entries, notes in my phone, audio recordings from late at night when I’d talk to myself, drawings from my siblings, photo reminders, and memories engraved in foreign songs, I’ve begun to develop an appreciation for the beauty of my Février in Touba Toul. My unhealthy obsession with...

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