2017-03-10
An interview with Ploy Kongkapetch, Ecuador ’16, Luther College What have you been up to since your bridge year? I am a freshman at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. I’m double majoring in International Studies and Spanish. What is a favorite memory from your Global Citizen Year? My Global Citizen Year involved a...
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2017-01-12
By Julia Tinneny, Senegal ’14, Bard College In Senegal, when one goes on a long journey, we say our goodbyes by shaking with our left hands. The deal is that some day we will see each other again, and upon reuniting we will embrace with a proper right-handed shake. I spent many months of the...
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2016-12-22
By Hannah Bouline, Ecuador ’13, University of Denver Four years ago I was sitting in a modest workshop stringing tags onto ribbon. The shelves full of colorfully dyed seeds hid the dull cinderblock walls. The door rested open allowing the brisk evening air to enter, and orange light from the setting sun illuminated the mountainside....
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2016-10-24
By Libby Schubert, India ’16, Case Western Reserve University August 29, 2016. Today is my first day of college classes. On August 29, 2015, I arrived in India. Yesterday I received my Global Citizen Year backpack. Inside there was a certificate of completion and a letter I had written to myself one year...
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2016-09-14
By Mouna Algahaithi, Senegal ’14, Madison College I walked through Chinatown slowly, wondering why I had decided to enroll in Kung Fu classes to begin with. The familiar knots of change and doubt twisted in my stomach as I followed the map on my phone, heading into downtown Oakland, down streets I had...
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2016-09-14
An Interview with Kim Asenbeck, Brazil ’13, Wellesley College Now 3 years after your bridge year in Brazil, catch us up on what you’ve been doing recently. I am currently a rising senior at Wellesley College, which is near Boston. This summer, I’m working at Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the...
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2016-09-14
An Interview with Bennett Quintard, Ecuador ’15, Chapman University Catch us up on what you’ve been doing since returning from Ecuador last year? I am about to start my second year at Chapman University and have shifted my educational focus from Business Admin, to Economics and Peace Studies. I will be living in...
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