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    • Family Gathering

    • Family Gathering

    • Host families

    • Welcome to my family in Papua New Guinea. My mother and father are standing in the background with all my cousins, grandpa and "Wontoks"sitting. Kinda fun learning about the "thumbs up" sign as one boy is doing but even more fun to have your...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "Mangi" Playing

    • "Mangi" Playing

    • Children; Nutrition

    • I visited a village near my school and found some wonderful kids. They wanted me to stay but I needed more than just sugar cane and sweet potatoes for dinner. Though they were fun they also showed signs of malnourishment.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dinner after a Long Walk

    • Dinner after a Long Walk

    • Host community friends; Food and meals

    • Here's my friend cooking dinner-- sweet potatoes and yams--, after a long walk and carbo loading for the next day. The next morning we grabbed our sugar cane and headed out on our next full day of walking.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Basketball Court

    • Basketball Court

    • Host community; Sports

    • The basketball court was a central feature of Neijiang Teachers' College in 1998. Basketball was almost as popular as ping-pong. Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • View of the Lake and Farmers' Homes

    • View of the Lake and Farmers' Homes

    • Housing

    • Pig farmers lived in this brick house across from my apartment building. I heard the pigs squealing as they were killed. In the background is a modern white building in the city of Neijiang, across the river from our village near Neijiang Teachers'...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morning Market

    • Morning Market

    • Markets

    • The nearby farmers sold ducks, chickens, eggs, vegetables, and tofu at the morning market in our village near Neijiang Teachers' College, Sichuan, China (1998).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Down by the River

    • Down by the River

    • Host community

    • This is the road leading down to the Tuo River. The road was in the 'bad' part of the village surrounding Neijiang Teachers' College in Sichuan, China. There were karaoke bars, tea houses, and a two-kuai movie theater along this road. 1998
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Dorms

    • Student Dorms

    • Housing

    • This is one of the student dorms at Neijiang Teachers' College in 1998. The students lived eight to a room (with four bunk beds) and hung their laundry out to dry on their balconies.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Classroom Building

    • Classroom Building

    • Schools

    • This was one of two classroom buildings that English teachers taught in at Neijiang Teachers' College, Sichuan, China. There was no air conditioning and no heat in 1998. The students below are reading the newspaper in a glass case.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Boat to Neijiang

    • Boat to Neijiang

    • Transportation

    • As a teacher trainer volunteer, I taught at a teachers' college that was in a village across the river from the city of Neijiang. Taking the boat across the river was often faster than taking the minibus.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding

    • Wedding

    • Weddings

    • To the best of my knowledge, I was the first Volunteer in the Baltic Countries to marry a foreign national. This is a photo of my wife, Ausra (nee Zatorskyte) Hawkridge, my step-son, Raulis Petronis and me (Arthur D. Hawkridge). Ausra and I wore...
    • Volunteer Photos

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