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    • Badjeo Village

    • Badjeo Village

    • Literacy; Children

    • Two days a week I taught basic English skills to a nomadic group along the waterfront in Roxas, Palawan. They moved whenever they needed a new place to catch fish for sale in the town. Thus, they did not have any formal education. The informal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Break from Training

    • Break from Training

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Transportation

    • This picture was taken at Vulcan Masaya, Nicaragua, during our Peace Corps training. At the time, it was the only national park.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • St. Martin’s Catholic Mission

    • St. Martin’s Catholic Mission

    • Schools

    • One of two school buildings that housed grades 1-7. The school eventually went to ninth grade. I taught a class of 55 students in grades 5 and 6. The school year was from March to the first of December. Gbarnga, Liberia, 1968.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cambodian Classroom

    • Cambodian Classroom

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken of my 12A class early in my service (circa 2007) at the Samdech Hun Sen Peam ChiKang Upper Secondary School in Peam ChiKang village, Kang Meas district, Kampong Cham province. This is a typical Cambodian classroom.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fifth and Sixth Grade Class in Vanuatu

    • Fifth and Sixth Grade Class in Vanuatu

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This is at the end of the school day as my students were leaving. The class was a combination 5th and 6th grade. A total of 20 students would sit in this room for instruction. The walls are made by weaving coconut palm. The girls in the photo are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Art; World Map Project

    • The photo was taken in March of 2008. My students and I were working on a World Map Project. We took a large wall that everyone walks past at the school and drew a mural of a world map. This photo shows us in the finishing stages of painting it. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fifth Form Fun

    • Fifth Form Fun

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Work

    • This 1995 photo shows a lighter moment in my fifth form classroom at School #97 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. We were learning how to make rabbit ears on ourselves and our neighbors while posing for photos.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lining Up

    • Lining Up

    • Sports; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken in Kampong Cham town, Kampong Cham province in early 2008. This photo is of the first girl's basketball team from Peam ChiKang USS (green jerseys) lining up prior to the start of their first competition of the season (which, I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Recess Time with Students

    • Recess Time with Students

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo shows Volunteer Kimberly Joyce along with students from the Salvation Army School in Belize City, Belize. We are all taking a moment to pose for a picture while spending time outdoors in the school yard during recess.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chavalos

    • Chavalos

    • Teachers and students

    • Me with my counterpart Rosita and one of our first-year classes at the Instituto Nacional Azarias Henry Pallais in Corinto, Nicaragua. This class included all of the misfits and repeating students in one section. The typical first-year student...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Trip at the Emile Bell

    • School Trip at the Emile Bell

    • Teachers and students

    • During the Spring, I travelled with our middle school students to Kyoung Ju, the ancient capital of South Korea, and took this photo in front of the Emile Bell, or "mommy" bell, which was cast in 771 AD.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations; Dance

    • My students (all future English teachers) at the Humanitarian Pedagogical College dance an Irish jig. Our celebration included a play, skits, songs, trivia, and this dance. My students loved to dance, but I am not a dance instructor and the only...
    • Volunteer Photos

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