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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Carolina In My Mind
Angela Seo
2019-08-31
Before I leave for Ecuador, I want to reflect on what I will miss about home. I’m going to miss the snow and how frozen roads meant no school. I’m going to miss Korean food. I brought a bottle of Sriracha (though not Korean) to add a little bit of spiciness if I start missing...
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Celia Morton
2019-08-31
I am currently at the Global Launch at Stanford California and lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about harm. These past couples of days we’ve had talks by inspiring entrepreneurs all working for a better world in their own way. In our discussions we always came back to the difficulties of the solutions to these...
Read MorePre-trip Time Capsule
Daming Cui
2019-08-31
All kinds of emotions swirl in my brain, changing by the minute: excitement, apprehension, nostalgia, euphoria, curiosity, determination, turmoil and peace mixed with a strange, hollow gust of emptiness. I imagine myself, digging through my blurred memories and trying to remember this jumble of wanderlust as I face the ocean waves while stars shimmer in...
Read MoreSweetwater
Melissa Matias
2019-08-31
My "experience" in high school wasn't a good one but don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad one either. What it HAS been was a journey trying to find the "up to my down". https://soundcloud.com/maliavibes/malia-sweetwater In elementary school, my fourth grade teacher asked the class of twenty what their dream schools were. My bestfriends...
Read MoreA new beginning
Luis Guzman Garcia-Valdecasas
2019-08-31
After my first week in Standford with Global Citizen Year I have had many thoughts coming into my mind. Many questions about this next eight months in Ecuador. How is my life going to be? What new experiences would I live? It is inevitable for me to think about the culture that is ahead of...
Read MoreAngelique Cruz Blog Post
Angelique Cruz
2019-08-30
Dear Self, Today you wake up seeing the world not as it is , but what it can be. Today you will learn. Today you will evolve. Today you will experience growth. Today you will have a conversation that will move you. Today you will experience an amount of emotions that you may not understand...
Read MoreBlog post – Julija Zagurskyte
Julija Zagurskyte
2019-08-30
“How do you feel about moving to Senegal?!?!?!?” Introversion and impulsivity are the worst traits. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing bad about the sense of comfort that comes from within – introverts commonly have an acute sense of self and keen observation… and we all have a moment in which we acted so...
Read MoreThe Hike of Omens
M'Chaelah Brown
2019-08-30
As we were walking down the winding path of the hiking trail I found myself captivated on the ground. Focused on not tripping over long tree roots, raised sand, or stepping off the trail and risking all of the “bad things”. Including ticks, poison oak, and others. 15 minutes in I realized that I never...
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My voices
Marcus Goley
2019-08-30
I never really was a man of words or anyone words at all. I was always that quiet kid in class who did everything he was supposed to and was always compared as “why can’t anyone be like Marcus”. I hated it, I felt like the last one to do anything and felt as if...
Read MoreHow does it feel like to be a fellow?
Mame Sarr
2019-08-30
How does it feel to be like a fellow? How does it feel like to be hosted by a family that you have never met before? How does it feel like to have host siblings? How does it feel to learn a language and immersing yourself to a new culture? How does it feel? Considering...
Read MoreAugust 29th 2019. Global Launch
Alejandra Altamirano
2019-08-30
[ I have seen and thought about so many things this week that my words wouldn’t be enough. I decided to share some of it in pictures even though I also know much of what I would like to put out there cannot be easily captured or perceived. ] It is certainly hard to start...
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Charlie Dickerson
2019-08-30
Life in Laguna Beach came and went with the tides. Over the course of a decade, confusion and anxiety ebbed out to sea, soon to be replaced by curiosity and zeal. The final four years showed me what I was made of deep down, but I never felt that I embodied that. You see, I...
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