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    • Craft Day at the Library

    • Craft Day at the Library

    • Artisans; Children; Community development

    • A fellow PCV, Jack, and I returned to visit our sites in June, 2004. We held a craft day for the children at the library, which included shield painting, bead stringing, face painting and making Ndebele dolls. The library was part of Jack's site,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Year's Eve, Ukraine, 2001

    • New Year's Eve, Ukraine, 2001

    • Celebrations

    • The picture was taken in the home of my host family on New Year's Eve, 2001. The picture is taken in front of the decorated tree with the two children of my host family, This picture accompanies the story I submitted about the events of that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Last Bell

    • Last Bell

    • Celebrations; Schools

    • The Last Bell ceremony in Ukrainian schools marks the last day of school, or the last bell of the school year. One of the youngest first formers and the oldest eleventh formers get the honor of ringing the actual last bell. This picture was taken...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baptist School Students

    • Baptist School Students

    • Children

    • I had left my camera back in the US when I left to volunteer in Romania. There I acquired an old Russian Zorky-C rangefinder camera and an old very bulky medium format German camera. This picture of students was taken at one of the schools where I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing Girl

    • Dancing Girl

    • Dance

    • A student at the Maya Devi School for Girls in Bharatpur, Nepal, where a taught, performs a traditional Nepali dance during a day of student performances at the school.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the local market

    • At the local market

    • Elders

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Elders; Host community

    • In the city of Arad, on my way to the after school program run my the orphanage where I worked, I saw this older gentleman carefully balancing on the icy sidewalk.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bunica Watching

    • Bunica Watching

    • Elders; Housing

    • Very often older people in Romania like to watch who is entering or leaving the building....This "bunica" or grandma is looks out the window.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the Local Market

    • At the Local Market

    • Elders; Markets

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Food and meals; Pre-service training (PST)

    • Close to the apartment where I lived in Arad, the driver in this classic Dacia had fallen asleep. In the back were loaves of bread. During in-service training I stayed with a host family in Ploiesti (I felt I was the luckiest of Volunteers to have...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host mother

    • Host mother

    • Host families

    • This is a picture of me and my host mother. We've remained close well after my service. I even invited her to live with me for several months in the US after my first child was born. She is like a second mother to me. Castillo, Dominican...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Family in Ukraine

    • Host Family in Ukraine

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken on New Year's Eve, 2001 in the home of my host family in Berdychev, Ukraine. The family members were each dressed in their best clothes to celebrate the coming of Father Christmas at midnight. It was such a marvelous...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dhal Bhat Eating Contest

    • Dhal Bhat Eating Contest

    • In-service Training (IST)

    • At an all-Volunteer conference in Kathmandu, Peace Corps Volunteers provide entertainment with a Dhal Bhat (lentils and rice-the Nepali national dish) eating contest. The team that consumed the most were the winners.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roma Woman Selling Rugs

    • Roma Woman Selling Rugs

    • Markets

    • This is part of the market portrait photos. (This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Latvia Group 9 Volunteers

    • Latvia Group 9 Volunteers

    • Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers

    • The Volunteers of Group 9 Latvia gather with Peace Corps training staff in Valmiera, Latvia toward the end of our training in Summer 2000. We are in the ruins of a castle believed to have been built in the 1280s.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Schools; Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Food and meals

    • I was teaching Conversational English in two high schools, one was Colegiul Baptist. This picture was at the teacher's cafeteria of Colegiul National Elena Ghiba-Birta in Arad, the then director of the school Doamna Iegariu poses for the camera in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The School Garden

    • The School Garden

    • Secondary projects; Children; Agriculture; Environment

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in the village of Las Palmeras outside of the city of Rivas. I worked with this group of children ages 5-10 at their school to create a tree nursery and organic garden. This project ultimately fulfilled the goal...
    • Volunteer Photos

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