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    • Waka Waka South Africa

    • Waka Waka South Africa

    • Sports; Children; Music

    • Dancing in the village... Our host brothers and some other local boys excited to get their photo taken. After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) was hugely popular song in South Africa.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Mapping

    • Village Mapping

    • Music; Celebrations

    • Brining American culture to the village. Fellow Peace Corps Volunteers come together to create a blue-grass festival on market day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trifon Zarezan Day

    • Trifon Zarezan Day

    • music

    • I took this photo on February 12th, 2011, of the local folk song group in Chiprovtsi Bulgaria. They were warming up with tea, honey, and rakia before singing for Trifon Zarezan Day Celebrations. Trifon Zarezan is an annual holiday celebrating...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • the Griot

    • the Griot

    • Music; Celebrations

    • Every spring, classes at the public schools in Tchamba, Togo stop for Cultural Week. Students from different tribes have a chance to showcase their traditions, dances, food and more. It's a big festival organized for and by the students. In this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The First Annual NovoFest

    • The First Annual NovoFest

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations; Music

    • This photo was taken on September 27, 2008 in Koleshino, Macedonia at the First Annual NovoFest. The local municipality of Novo Selo wished to develop their tourist industry during my Peace Corps assignment in their local economic development...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students of Roma Desegregation Project

    • Students of Roma Desegregation Project

    • Music; Diversity training; Teachers and students

    • 10/23/09. Photo exhibition and piano concert to celebrate 10 year anniversary of "Roma Desegregation of Education in Central and Eastern Europe Project." Students read poetry and shared information during the piano concert. Vidin, Bulgaria -...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students

    • Students

    • Music; Host community friends; Teachers and students

    • Pictured are my students from Goldbedaugh, Iran, a small village of about 50 people located about 5 or 6 miles from Kangavar, the county seat, where the school was located This village had no electricity in 1970, and students either walked or...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Steel Pan

    • Steel Pan

    • Camps and Clubs; Teachers and Students; Music

    • This picture was taken at an Expo put on by the St. Lucia Peace Corps volunteers to display what Peace Corps is all about. During the expo some of us volunteers played the national anthems with a Lucian steel pan group that we joined. Afterward we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Singing on the 4th of July

    • Singing on the 4th of July

    • Celebrations; Music

    • This photo was taken at a 4th of July party in Kazakhstan. Married Peace Corps Volunteers, Melissa and Matt belted their hearts out to adoring fans singing traditional American songs.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Singing in a yurt

    • Singing in a yurt

    • music; celebrations; traditional dress

    • Miras, a 6th grader at Saumalkol Kazakh Secondary School in northern Kazakhstan, performs a song during a Nauryz celebration on March 22, 2011. Nauryz is the Kazakh New Year and is celebrated across the country with traditional activities like...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Singing for Our Supper

    • Singing for Our Supper

    • Music; Celebrations

    • Singing in the photo are Dick Lundgren, Dee Maning, Rich Holmes, Neil Dupree, Joyce Emery, and Roger Lavallee. One was usually asked to perform at functions. This was on our visit to established volunteers in the Cotobato area of Mindano in 1965.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School House Rock

    • School House Rock

    • Music; Children

    • This was taken on the last day of school in our training village, Dviri, in the mountains of central Georgia. Trainee Goodloe Harman treated students to a few songs in between classes outside of the village school. June, 2011
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roberto on Flute

    • Roberto on Flute

    • Traditional dress; Music; Ecotourism

    • This photo portrays a young community member playing a flute made out of bamboo, to greet arriving tourist in Chagres National Park in Panama.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Playing Music for the Goats

    • Playing Music for the Goats

    • animals; host families; music

    • This photo was taken in August of 2010 in a smalll village in the Eastern European country of Moldova. During my pre-service training, my host father and I spent many evenings playing our guitars together on the front porch for the rest of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Playing away the Winter Blues

    • Playing away the Winter Blues

    • music; elders

    • This picture was taken in Yambol, Bulgaria, in the winter of 2009. One of our two city accordionists (the less crazy one) was doing his thing on my morning walk to school, right in front of our 15th century ottoman mosque. Needless to say, it was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picnic Song

    • Picnic Song

    • Music; Celebrations; Food and meals

    • Darkhan-Uul countryside, Mongolia. Mongolians friends on a picnic, singing and drinking into the evening as they wait for the freshly slaughtered sheep to boil. June, 2009
    • Volunteer Photos

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