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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So This is It…
Joshua Shields
2019-08-30
Senegal. The land of teranga, and the vast unknown to which I'll be plunging into shortly. It is a dive into a pool so deep I won't happen to surface from it for eight months. It looms like a titan in my imagination, its languages, customs, history, and overall presence unyielding thus far to my...
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New Beginnings
Brianna Torres
2019-08-30
I have thought about writing my first blog for a while now and I really focused on how it should start and what I should share with you all. Perhaps, the one reading this knows nothing about me and so I wanted to share something that gives a little insight. Whatever that means. So, to...
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The Beginning, Again
Roger Burtonpatel
2019-08-30
So- first blog, etc. etc., here we are. The last two weeks have been a wonderful whirlwind of bonding, introspection, serious talking, late nights, dumb jokes, and a whole lotta exploration, in every sense. GCY and Tufts training are very much the same- and yet somehow… different; it's hard to describe how. I feel a...
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Why?
Jamyang Choden
2019-08-30
This is a photo taken during global launch in Stanford. I thought a lot about what my first blog should be about. Many ideas popped up, but I always came back to sharing the main reasons why I was going for a gap year instead of heading to college. So welcome to my first blog...
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The East Grand Rapids Bubble
Emily Nelson
2019-08-30
Photo: Making new friends at the Global Launch (with Sophia Miller, Senegal Cohort) When I grew up, I played outside. I used my time to climb every tree in the neighborhood, escape the soap in my mother’s hand when I said ill-mannered phrases such as “that’s stupid,” race my sister’s to the community pool on...
Read MoreNever let your schooling interfere with your education
Malaika Nikiema
2019-08-30
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education” is a quote from Mark Twain that really speaks to me because it is something that I have been trying to explain to my family and friends back home in Burkina Faso. As some of them got the fact that all the learning those not happen behind...
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On the Edge of Adventure
Sophia Miller
2019-08-30
If you were to walk through the Miller-Hermans house this week, you would find little piles everywhere. Boxes of tea and crackers in the kitchen, crucial documents in the office, and clothes stacked in the guest bedroom all waiting to be neatly shoved into a beat-up suitcase. But packing for the unknown is difficult. How...
Read MoreEmotional Adventures Milana Venegoni India Blog 1
Milana Venegoni
2019-08-30
I have made several different stories all with wildly different perspectives in the days that I have been on this campus. I have written at my highest highs and my lowest lows and I am currently speaking from a place of great emotional upheaval (What else is new?). There are so many different feelings I...
Read MoreJust A Soccer Game
Buddy Bomze
2019-08-30
Today was the third day of Global Citizen Year’s Global Launch. At Global Launch I have been exposed to a caliber of diversity unlike anything I ever imagined. I could go on to explain all of the interesting learning we have been doing about the world around us and how we interact with it, but...
Read MorePreparing To Leave And The Goodbyes That Come With
Carly Nolan
2019-08-29
There’s been a lot of tears shed in the days leading up to my flight to San Francisco for global launch. Saying goodbye for now to my friends proved to be way more difficult than anticipated and they just got harder as my departure grew closer. Knowing my family was coming up to...
Read MoreA First Step Into Immigration
Lara Solis
2019-08-29
IMG-20190824-WA0015.jpg I flew for the first time today That isn’t 100% true. I got on an airplane for the first time when I was 1 year old. Then again when I was 16, but that was only for 30 minutes so it doesn't count. So today, at 18, I flew alone for the first time....
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Intuition & Inclinations
Sadie Price-Elliott
2019-08-29
Why? After receiving this question an uncountable number of times during the summer leading up to my bridge year, I had my response down to practically a science. I plan to study International Development in college. I do not have much prior knowledge or experience, but I do know that I want to learn more....
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