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- Musical Break
- This was tea time at our language class during training. We took a break every day to have tea. Our language instructor, Aminetou, always made the tea while she spoke to us in French. A local kid, Mohammed, stopped by to play us music and I...
- Volunteer Photos
- Caught Red-Handed
- Host Family
- Georgian weddings are often attended by 200+ guests and last for two days. This requires neighborhood-wide coordination to prepare the piles of food needed for each celebration. In this picture taken in Samtredia, my host relatives and neighbors...
- Volunteer Photos
- Picnic Song
- Waiting for freshly slaughtered sheep to boil, some community friends enjoy drinks and music in the Darkhan-uul Aimag countryside of Mongolia.
- Volunteer Photos
- Cassava Lady
- Katuyola, Zambia. I have no idea how people balance things like that on their head...that bucket was heavy! This is one of my neighbors who soaked her cassava in one of the fish ponds.
- Volunteer Photos
- My Unusual (and Everyday) Neighbors
- This picture was taken in the spring of 2006 in Zhovkva, a small town in Western Ukraine. This is my neighbor's house and his fowl which frequented the side of the road that ran in between his house and mine. They often chased after me as I...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Printer is Thirsty
- This is my landlord showing me how Ukrainians refill ink cartridges in Ukraine. The photo was taken in my apartment in the city of Uman.
- Volunteer Photos
- Passover Celebration
- This was taken in my apartment in Khmelnistky, Ukraine, during a Passover celebration in 2005.
- Volunteer Photos
- Making Pate
- Affem Kabye's village health volunteer and my counterpart Adjoua is making pate in her foyer ameliore. Pate is the staple in the Central Region of Togo. Pate is made by boiling water, adding corn flour and stirring it vigorously; it turns into a...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Past Moves in the Moment
- This is a family photo of my neighbors as younger parents--now, their daughters are adults with their own children. The father was a former Communist Party official in Uman who is now a pensioner. This picture was taken on the night of Christmas...
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- House Porch
- Visiting with neighborhood kids on the porch of my house in Monte Plata, Dominican Republic - 1968
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- Litchi Season!
- I took this photo during litchi harvest time in November in Fiadanana, Madagascar. It shows my friends Andrea and Elva separating the fruit form the branch so that they could be packed in baskets and sold to drivers that would bring them to the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tea and Stories
- This is a photo of me with my neighbor, Maria Yegorovna. I would visit her often to drink tea and hear her stories about life as a teenager working in the coal mines of Karaganda during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). She didn't have...
- Volunteer Photos
- Saddling Up for a Camel Caravan
- Here I am (left) saddling up for a camel caravan that I took with teacher colleague friends. The trip was from Nouadhibou where we lived and worked to Chinguetti, in the desert of Mauritania. We are at this point just outside of Atar, getting ready...
- Volunteer Photos
- Browsing for Stalin
- A volunteer (Seth, on the right) and a salesman peruse the selection of Soviet medals and memorabilia. Many Georgians sell their USSR wares on the sidewalks of Tbilisi, and renditions of Stalin abound-- naturally, since he was Georgian.
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- The Art of Silk Weaving
- I took this photo during one of my visits to a silk weaving group in my community. I was located in a subdistrict of 13 villages. Almost every house in every village had a weaving loom -all day you would hear the wood hitting the loom to make the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Noogies
- Here I am teaching a true American tradition of noogies to one of my little gullible friends! Noogie, noogie, noogie!
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- Djizzak/Gulistan Summer Camp
- This was my team when I worked as a team leader at the Djizzak/Gulistan Summer Camp in 2004.
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- Camel Caravan to Chinguetti
- This photo was taken during a camel caravan that I was on, along with a group of teachers working in Nouadhibou, Mauritania. The trip was by train, taxi and truck, and finally by camel from Nouadhibou to Chinguetti and back.
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- Karaganda Wedding Party
- I was honored when my friend Lyuba asked me to be the maid of honor at her wedding in October, 1994. This photo shows the newlyweds in the center with the best man on the left and me on the right.
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- A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe
- Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds...
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