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    • A Moroccan Wedding in the Morning

    • A Moroccan Wedding in the Morning

    • Weddings; Celebrations

    • Moroccan weddings are an event that can include the entire town. Early in the morning, family members of the bride wake up and march through the streets singing and chanting to let everyone know that a member of the community is about to be wed....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan

    • Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan

    • Teachers and students; Camps and clubs; Schools; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in November 2009 shortly after I arrived at my site in Kazakhstan. This was one of the first English Clubs I held in the local Kazakh school. The photo shows myself and the children, and their completed Thanksgiving turkeys...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cricket Celebration

    • Cricket Celebration

    • Sports; Music; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in July 2009 at the Dominica National Stadium. The cricket match was the West Indies vs. Bangladesh. During the match, I joined in a Lapo Cabwit band with other horn blowers and drummers.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ay Baba

    • Ay Baba

    • Host families; Host community friends; Celebrations

    • Like many Peace Corps Volunteers before and after me, Seyni was my Baba (father). Being posted in Dosso, Niger where Seyni was the Peace Corps Program Assistant, I became very close to him and his family. It was a rare day that I did not hear the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Operation Smile

    • Operation Smile

    • Hospitals; Celebrations

    • Dr. Sanaa Ademi and Volunteer Andrew Harris spread Christmas cheer to patients in Jordan during the most recent Operation Smile mission.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kite Festival

    • Kite Festival

    • Games; Celebrations

    • Taken in October 2010, in Guatemala. There is an annual kite contest where teams of people choose a topic that represents the country and they spend 6 months creating their masterpiece out of bamboo and crepe paper. Each is displayed at the annual...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kite Festival

    • Kite Festival

    • Games; Celebrations

    • Taken in October 2010, in Guatemala. There is an annual kite contest where teams of people choose a topic that represents the country and they spend 6 months creating their masterpiece out of bamboo and crepe paper. Each is displayed at the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pupusas

    • Pupusas

    • Food and meals; Celebrations

    • Pupusas are the national snack of El Salvador. They are made with corn or rice flour, and stuffed with cheese and other ingredients (beans, chicharron, ayote, etc.). Pupusas are eaten in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but El Salvador claims...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Children; Youth; Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations

    • Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • Children; Celebrations; Sports

    • This picture was taken during a village holiday celebration on August 7, 2011 in Ukraine. Each year there is a big celebration for the village of 3500 people. There is a concert, games for children, shaslik (Ukrainian style bbq) dancing, and a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Illuminating

    • Illuminating

    • Children; Celebrations; Religion

    • I took this photo while in a nearby town in October of 2009 during the town's week-long party celebrating their saint's day. To commemorate the celebration, all the women placed candles on the church floor which cast a glow somehow sad and hopeful...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Slippery Pole

    • Slippery Pole

    • Children; Celebrations; Games

    • I took this photo on Sunday 8/7/2011 at my neighbors quince anos celebration. My husband and I attended the ceremony of the quincinera and following the service, the delicious lunch games for the children commenced. After a rousing and slightly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Santa in the West Indies

    • Santa in the West Indies

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This is a picture of the preschoolers at Cottage Faith Preschool in Cottage, Dominica. They are showing off Santa crafts they made for the the upcoming 2009 Christmas season.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Festival

    • Water Festival

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in November 2010 Cambodia during the National Water Festival. In this photo three children are watching a boat race.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • International Women's Day

    • International Women's Day

    • Celebrations; Women's movement; Food and meals; International Women's Day

    • International Women's Day Celebration in Niue, South Pacific in 2000. The women gathered to show their crafts, watch and perform in dances and songs and of course, eat delicious Niuean food! This was the buffet table - as colorful as the women...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ground Breaking Ceremony

    • Ground Breaking Ceremony

    • Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This is a photo that I took of the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2004 for the new Youth Training Center in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. It was a grand ceremony with everyone getting dressed up for the local member of parliament.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • International Cooking Day

    • International Cooking Day

    • Celebrations; Teachers and students; Cooking

    • This photo was taken in August 2011 in Guatemala. In an effort to share bits of cuisine from other cultures and teach about nutrition, I spent the day helping groups of 9th graders prepare their meals for our International Cooking Day. These two...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; games

    • This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
    • Volunteer Photos

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