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    • Russian Soldier and Me

    • Russian Soldier and Me

    • Cold war; Volunteers; Statues and monuments

    • This photo was taken in Slagotarjan, Hungary in 1990 just after the fall of the Iron Curtain. This is a statue of a Russian soldier that used to overlook the city to remind the citizens who was in charge. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Salgotarjan...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Karaganda Wedding Party

    • Karaganda Wedding Party

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe

    • A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tea and Stories

    • Tea and Stories

    • Elders; Host community friends

    • 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
    • Camel Caravan to Chinguetti

    • Camel Caravan to Chinguetti

    • Transportation; Host community friends; Terrain; Animals;

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saddling Up for a Camel Caravan

    • Saddling Up for a Camel Caravan

    • Transportation; Host community friends; Terrain; Animals

    • 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
    • Laura with Students at the ENSUP

    • Laura with Students at the ENSUP

    • Youth; Teachers and students; Work

    • This photo was taken during the summer of 1991, shortly before I finished my work in Mali as a teacher trainer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, or l'ENSUP, in Bamako, Mali. These were the greatest students...they had survived a coup d'etat, in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Patti and Laura at Tubaniso, Mali

    • Patti and Laura at Tubaniso, Mali

    • Country evacuations; Training sites

    • This is my great Peace Corps buddy Patti (left) and I during some sort of fete at the Peace Corps training camp, Tubaniso, outside of Bamako, in Mali. We had arrived in late December, 1990 as "refugees" when we were evacuated from Mauritania. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Reforestation Campaign

    • Community Reforestation Campaign

    • Environment; Forestry; Work; Host community friends

    • I had this photo taken of me and my friend, Jonnys, during a community reforestation campaign in Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua in August, 1997. We are shown planting a Mexican cedar tree. I had established a tree nursery and organized a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Government Secondary School Tatum

    • Government Secondary School Tatum

    • Work; Schools

    • I took this photograph of my school in 2000 after I returned to Cameroon to continue to assist the students. G.S.S. Tatum, now Government High School, is located in Bui Division in the Northwest region of Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Work; Teachers and students

    • During the last year of my Peace Corps service I decided to visit many of my students in their villages. Except for one, we (delegation of students and I) went everywhere on foot and had a lot fun along the way too. Our visit was greatly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ngwang

    • Ngwang

    • Celebrations; Elders; Traditional dress

    • The traditional rulers from Tatum/Nkum area appreciated greatly my efforts during my Peace Corps service and in 1999 gave a traditional title Ngwang with a beautiful dress, a cap, a handmade necklace and a country bag. To them I was a peacemaker...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • G.S.S. Tatum Donations

    • G.S.S. Tatum Donations

    • Work; Schools; Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • In 2001 I returned to Cameroon with 17 boxes of various donations for the students and the school. This photograph was taken during the reception of the donations at G.S.S. Tatum.
    • Volunteer Photos

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