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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To Make a Change & Be Alive
London Samson
2018-08-16
You know when you’re young, like really young, with your messy hair and stuffed animals, and people ask, “What do you want to be when you grow up?,” and you sit there for a second thinking about all the crazy possibilities of the things you could become before blurting out, “a superhero!” or “a...
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Same Delegate, Different Stage
Mia Reyes
2018-08-15
For a long time, the word community applied only to what I knew was familiar and the world was a smaller place because of it. And then everything changed. My freshman year of high school, I joined Model United Nations (MUN) and in a way, the decision made itself, as I entered in blindly and...
Read Morenote to self
Miriam Abel
2018-08-15
Dear Miri, Before you lift up your suitcase and check into the plane that will carry you to Senegal, remember these words from a person you can learn a lot from – yourself: 1. Bring yourself back to the time when Senegal sounded so unrealistic and distant to you that you found it hard...
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Been There, Done That
Macy Lipkin
2018-08-15
This time three years ago, I was getting ready to transfer to boarding school. I spent August writing and rewriting my packing list, shopping for dress code clothes (khakis were a shift from the sweatpants of my public school days), and combing through my new school’s website and Instagram for any clue towards what...
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Let the adventure begin…
Maddi Schink
2018-08-15
Hello there! 🙂 Welcome to my blog! My name is Maddi Schink, and I am 18 years old and a Colorado native. In less than a month I will be embarking on the journey of a lifetime on a gap year through Global Citizen Year! As I entered my senior year of high school this...
Read MoreLetter for undergraduate students who don’t know what to do yet.
Salome-Valdivieso
2018-08-14
So I decided to take a gap year, and my parents were not very happy with my decision in the begging. It took a while for them to understand and for me to learn how to stand up for what I believe. I believe in the power of learning from people and places. And I...
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My Future Found Me
Sophia Alfaro
2018-08-14
If a stranger were to ask me to describe myself, I would say I am annoyingly persistent, proactively procrastinated, and blindly determined. I'm unbalanced but still crossing the tightrope. When it comes to me, where there's a will, there's always a way. And that's how I'm finding myself here today, uploading my thoughts for Global...
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An Unfinished Love Letter to the Place I Call Home
Surabhee Arjunwadkar
2018-08-14
पुणे. पुनवडी. पुण्यनगरी. माझं शहर. माझं घर. Sometimes, I wish I had found you sooner, felt your magic, seen your beauty. I remember, two years ago, when two foreigners thought that a rather unimpressive, dirty bridge was beautiful, I thought it was absurd. Now, as I pass that bridge, it reminds me of them, of...
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Jovana Jovanovska
2018-08-14
Our whole lives are challenges, challenges that will make us happy or sad, but most importantly, ones that would shape us, make us think and experience. When I applied to take a gap year, one of the outcomes I wanted to achieve was to make a change for myself. However, that process started sooner than...
Read MoreTwo Weeks
Maria Bossert
2018-08-13
As I woke up at 5:45 this morning to the sounds and motion of my co-counselor amid her routine sleep-talk-and-walk show in our summer camp cabin, I knew there was no going back to bed. Throughout this week at camp, the question I have been most frequently asked is “When do you leave for...
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Maddi McGirr
2018-08-13
Monday 13th August 2018 Blog Entry 1 “Happy Families” Happy Families. A little known card game which I have played with my siblings from a very young age. The game is similar to that of ‘Go Fish’ with normal playing cards, the aim being to collect the most complete sets of families comprised...
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First Hello
Ida Nydelius
2018-08-13
Hello Flowers, first blog post, I am excited and terrified. Also, I haven’t even left my door yet. 12 days left until I will take off with the plane towards San Francisco, and my suitcase is was ready 2 days ago. You might wonder – “how do you pack for 8 months in one suitcase?”....
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