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A Day in the Work Life

January 15, 2020

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Taylor Molina. Taylor is spending her gap year in Ecuador with Global Citizen Year. I had an unrealistic, or maybe just purposely ignorant, idea of what my year would be like in … Read more

How to fill your time when you’re not volunteering

November 25, 2019

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Nya Patton. Nya is spending the first part of her gap year in Brazil working on rainforest conservation with Iracambi. So, you’ve arrived in this country, ready to learn, give what … Read more

Part of me becoming part of them

November 25, 2019

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Jennifer Kang. Jennifer is spending her gap year in Ecuador with Global Citizen Year. Today is September 25. It’s been two and a half weeks with my host family. Some … Read more

Google Translate

November 25, 2019

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Matthew Lu. Matthew is spending the first part of his gap year in Shenzhen, China.  I knew that I’d have some use of this translation tool, so I had the … Read more

Bad Luck

November 22, 2019

I will be the first to admit that I’ve had a couple of fails. You know how people say, “goodnight, sleep tight, and don’t let the bedbugs bite?” I didn’t realize that bedbugs were an actual thing until, well, I … Read more

A Digital Girl Discovering a ~Not So~ Digital World

November 22, 2019

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Sarah Duncan. Sarah is spending the first half of her gap year in Seoul, South Korea.  Media surrounds us everywhere we go. You see it in the form of billboards on … Read more

Giving Yourself A Week

November 21, 2019

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Nya Patton. Nya is spending the first part of her gap year in Brazil working on rainforest conservation with Iracambi. When I arrived to Brazil, I had this overwhelming sense of … Read more

Pre-Departure: Places and Liminal Spaces

November 12, 2019

The following post was written by Bridge Year Fellow Karen Xu. Karen is spending the first part of her brudge year in Mexicali, Mexico with California Department of Public Health’s Office of Binational Border Health . The first time I … Read more