The photo was taken in my village of pibidunugama-Sri Lanka while I was washing my clothes. The person in the photo is Peace Corps Volunteer Michael Alston.
Pablo, an Argentinian biologist, took this photo of me as we were wading across La Laguna de Pozuelos in northern Jujuy in 1993. We were on a flamingo collecting trip to study the diets of three different species of flamingos.
This is a photo of my classroom in Bekescsaba, Hungary. I taught groups of 15 6th through 8th grade students in this classroom around the single table you can partly see in the photo. I'm standing at the back windows of the classroom. When I...
Let me start by saying we were NOT allowed to drive as volunteers. I'm sitting in a parked Trabant (car produced in former East Germany) in front of my building in Bekescsaba, Hungary in June 1993. Most Hungarians used bicycles or public...
This photo was taken in Bekescsaba, Hungary in May 1993 at a folkdance performance in the city center. Many of my students are performing in this group. You will notice the wine bottles on the heads and in the hands of the dancers. The dance...
Peace Corps Volunteers came together to start an annual Children's English Language Drama Festival in Hungary. This is a photo of my 8th grade students at the finals in Hajdunanas for the inaugural year - 1992. I found the play in a textbook in...
This photo was taken on Christmas Day 1991 from the window of my flat in Bekescsaba. Many volunteers in Hungary found themselves living in a flat in a communist-style block of buildings. I had a furnished, 2-room flat where a large family would...
This photo was taken in the living room of my host family's home in Jaszbereny at Christmas time in 1991. In the photo you can see the grandmother, the 3 children, me and the parents. Volunteers lived with a family during the 3 months of our...
Peace Corps volunteers decided to start a softball league where classes of students could play against each other. This photo is of my 8th grade students at a tournament in Szarvas, Hungary. Our softball equipment was collected by people from my ...