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    • Home Visit at the Church

    • Home Visit at the Church

    • Weather; Environment; Host community; Traditional dress

    • While accompanying my companion on a visit to one of the 30 communities of San Bartolome Jocotenango, we encountered these two women at the unfinished church before we reached their house. The umbrella, instead of for protection from the rain, was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Looking Out My Front Door

    • Looking Out My Front Door

    • Weather; Rural sites

    • This was the view out the front door of my house in the pueblo. That particular day, a storm had just swept in as the neighbor began to burn his yard. The smoke rose up and danced with the wind as I went inside to grab my camera and try to capture...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tired of Snow

    • Tired of Snow

    • Weather; Terrain

    • This photo was taken by a RPCV at "Prolisok," just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine. "Prolisok" is where we spent our first nights in Ukraine, so it is a place of vivid memories for our entire group.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dungan Mosque

    • Dungan Mosque

    • Religion; Weather; Terrain

    • The Dungan Mosque in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, built in the 1920s and still operating. Taken from my apartment window during a blizzard, winter 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Town Center

    • Town Center

    • architecture; weather

    • I took this photo in December of 2006 of buildings in the Town Center of L'viv Ukraine. Featured in the upper right is the building that housed the town library (Biblioteka) I conducted the weekly evening English Club there and was going to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Approaching Storm

    • Approaching Storm

    • Weather; Site

    • I took this picture during a relaxing day at the Negril Beach. The sky turned from brilliant blue and sunny to dark and cloudy in a matter of minutes. One wonders as the fate of the 'Reef Princess' as she lies quietly upon the tranquil sea awaiting...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Support

    • Support

    • environment; weather

    • Wow. Winter. Was. Tough. When I am struggling and fighting with my thoughts I grab my camera and I go for a walk through the village to try to put everything back together again. At the time this photograph was taken, I was coming out of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Painting the Mountain

    • Painting the Mountain

    • celebrations; weather; hiv/aids

    • I took this photo during a Peace Corps 50th Anniversary celebration in Lesotho on July 2nd, 2011. The Peace Corps Volunteers in the district, along with local government officials, chose to repaint a large HIV/AIDs ribbon on one of the surrounding...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Umbrella Troubles

    • Umbrella Troubles

    • weather; host community friends

    • Early in my services, Knowledge (the finance manager at my NGO site) and his son took me on a tour of surrounding communities. Caught in unexpected rain and wind, both struggled for shelter under their umbrellas. Taken in the north of the Limpopo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Street Hockey in the Snow

    • Street Hockey in the Snow

    • Sports; Games; Weather; Housing

    • This photo shows the view from my apartment in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Winters are long, cold and snowy there but kids enjoy playing hockey in the courtyard no matter what the weather is like.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Winter of 1971

    • Winter of 1971

    • Weather; Environment

    • This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
    • Volunteer Photos

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