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    • Going to the Bandiagara Market

    • Going to the Bandiagara Market

    • Transportation

    • This photo was taken on our way to the Bandiagara market. I traveled with another volunteer Victor Quintana and friends from my village Koporo-Pen on their donkey carts. They were traveling to Bandiagara to sell their millet grains. Koporo-pen...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Boiling Wolf Traps

    • Boiling Wolf Traps

    • Wildlife

    • Cedar boils the modified leghold traps in herbs, along with our clothing and shoes, at the farmhouse in the village of Sadovic in western Bulgaria. With members of Balkani Wildlife Society, the next day we set the trapline and checked it twice a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rangers at Dinner

    • Rangers at Dinner

    • Environment

    • After a long day of tracking wolves, rangers (and Volunteer C.A. Woulfe) have a dinner of bread and rakia in a forestry unit building without water or electricity in the Central Balkan National Park.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Craftsmen Guild Meeting

    • Craftsmen Guild Meeting
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    • One of the first meetings of a new Aprilci Craftsmens Guild in the Tourist Office, with a Volunteer, Marcella Crider, crafts persons, and the Director of the Tourist Bureau, Doncho Pachnikov (Notice that the heat was not on that day).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aprilci Telecenter

    • Aprilci Telecenter

    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); Celebrations

    • The Aprilci Telecenter opened 15 September 2001, with Bulgarian and American flags flying. The photo shows the Mayor, Sawmill owner, Telecenter manager, and Volunteer.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Latvian Town of Aizpute

    • Latvian Town of Aizpute

    • Architecture

    • Located on the Tebra River, the St. John's Lutheran Church seen here was built around 1860. The settlement in the area dates back to the year 1253. I took this photo in the fall of 2000 and was the first Peace Corps Volunteer assigned to Aizpute,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebration of the Ligo and Jani Day Festival

    • Celebration of the Ligo and Jani Day Festival

    • Youth; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken during my training summer 2000 in Valmiera, Latvia. This photo shows the Latvian tradition of jumping over a fire for good luck throughout the next year on the shortest night of the year. Latvia celebrates the Summer Solstice...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Young Bride

    • Young Bride

    • Weddings; Youth

    • After the first year of service, I moved to a new apartment that had been occupied by a former Volunteer. She had left in one of the closets a few blankets. Another Volunteer in Arad and I decided to bring those blankets to a very poor family that...
    • 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 "piaČ›a" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos

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