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...
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...
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...
It was a mid-afternoon day on May 2004 at Mpika, Zambia in the Northern Province. This picture is taken on the Great North Road at the junction that goes to Kasama. The BP Station is the only one in the district and a place I have spent countless...
This photo was takening in April 2001 in the little town of Lita, Ecuador. It is where I had stayed for Community Based Training. I was on a farm in the photo with my fan club from the town as they were showing me their parents' farm and I was...
I met my wife while buying vegetables from her in the market of Ipala, Chiquimula, Guatemala, and we were married about three years later. This photo is of my wife on our wedding day, and her various relatives who came to help with the cooking for...
Waleska, Brenda, Herson, and Marco are children I tutored after school in 2001. They would come to my home, do homework, and play with my things. One hot day they decided to tutor me and show me around the surrounding area. They decided my...
This is how I remember September 11th. I went on a school field trip with my teachers and students to the ruins of Old Leon, Nicaragua. After the field trip I was exhausted and hungry. I wanted to get home and make tuna casserole. However, my...
The picture is more of the laundry than the house. I took a picture of it in July 2001, seven months living in my site, to remember the hard work that went into my clean clothes before I returned to the land of washing machines. The photo summons...
I took this photo on a hike that my 'Uncle' Fabio was leading a fellow PCV and me on. The hike to the volcano was much longer than I understood and going up the volcano was like walking on a beach, sandy with no good footing. We didn't have...
Volunteer Jay Percell selects volunteers to play a baseball game during 2001 Peace Corps day festivities on the island of St. Lucia, West Indies. Although the St. Lucian children are more familiar with cricket, they were very excited to learn and...
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...