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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Bollywood Bonanza: a review of all the movies I watched while in India.
Elizabeth Farrell
2019-05-24
While in India, I was lucky enough to be placed in a host family with a Mom who had a passion for movies. Every chance we got, we’d see whatever new Hindi movie was in theatres. I fell in love with Indian cinema! Back home, I’d completely fallen out of love with film – every...
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Maddi Schink
2019-05-23
April 13, 2019 I returned to Colorado. For months, I had harbored this idea of returning “home.” It was glamorized in my head, a moment when I imagined once again being enveloped with instantaneous comfort. No more language struggles, no more stares, no more standing out in a crowd. Toward the end of my time in Ecuador, I thought I was more than ready to say my...
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Emiliana Reinoso
2019-05-23
Today, this Wednesday morning, I am sitting on an old sofa writing about what I still can not decipher. The days can be very intense when you go back to what used to be my whole idea of a home. The truth is that three years living outside the country have not helped me feel...
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Uma Fruta Atrás da Outra
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-05-23
Escrito no dia 19 de março de 2019, em Hyderabad, India. Chegamos na Índia quando a época do romã tinha acabado de começar. Fortes tons de rosa e vermelho tinham dominado cafés da manhã e vasilhas de iogurte. E mesmo que as sementes da fruta fossem saudáveis e brilhantes, eu carregava em mim o peso...
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One Season After The Other
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva
2019-05-23
We got to India when pomegranate season had just started. Powerful, beautiful tones of pink and red had taken over breakfast tiffins and curd bowls. And although the seeds were bright and healthy, I carried in me the burden of wanting to be somewhere else at all times during that same season. Nothing seemed enough,...
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Mauro Ramirez-Azofeifa
2019-05-23
In the video I talk a little bit about my whole experience in Brazil and the activities that I have been doing and working on. En el vídeo hablo un poco de mi experiencia en Brasil y en las actividades que estaba trabajando y haciendo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFTo_3XaXnU
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