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- Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2010)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2010)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 4, 2012)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 4, 2012)
- Newsletters
- Fifth Form Fun
- Schools; Teachers and students; Work
- This 1995 photo shows a lighter moment in my fifth form classroom at School #97 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. We were learning how to make rabbit ears on ourselves and our neighbors while posing for photos.
- Volunteer Photos
- With student and wearing typical bridal clothes
- Celebrations; Weddings; Traditional dress
- Taken during first year when visiting student's house in Sousse, Tunisia. The family wanted me to wear a bridal dress to better understand the culture.
- Volunteer Photos
- Street Hockey in the Snow
- Sports; Games; Weather; Housing
- This photo shows the view from my apartment in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Winters are long, cold and snowy there but kids enjoy playing hockey in the courtyard no matter what the weather is like.
- Volunteer Photos
- Karaganda Wedding Party
- Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends
- I was honored when my friend Lyuba asked me to be the maid of honor at her wedding in October, 1994. This photo shows the newlyweds in the center with the best man on the left and me on the right.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe
- Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends
- Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tea and Stories
- Elders; Host community friends
- This is a photo of me with my neighbor, Maria Yegorovna. I would visit her often to drink tea and hear her stories about life as a teenager working in the coal mines of Karaganda during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). She didn't have...
- Volunteer Photos
- Teachers' Day Festivities
- Schools; Teachers and students; Celebrations
- Celebrating a hard fought but entertaining win at the Teachers' Day Games between the Teachers and the students at the Kharkiv Gymnasium, Kharkiv Ukraine.
- Volunteer Photos
- Deyed Marozh/ Santa Claus
- Schools; Celebrations; Host community friends
- The largest common celebration of the former Soviet Eastern Europe is the New Year. The New Year is ushered in by Deyed Marozh or Grandfather Frost, who looks a lot like Santa Claus, and whose purpose is to bring happiness and hope for the new...
- Volunteer Photos
- Noogies
- Children; Games; Host community friends
- Here I am teaching a true American tradition of noogies to one of my little gullible friends! Noogie, noogie, noogie!
- Volunteer Photos
- American Cultural Center at Kharkiv National University
- Universities; Libraries; Work
- With the fellow members of the American Cultural Center at the Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv which was opened in collaboration with the US Embassy. We had lots of fun creating the English library, English Speaking club and the monthly...
- Volunteer Photos
- Djizzak/Gulistan Summer Camp
- Camps and clubs; Work; Host community friends
- This was my team when I worked as a team leader at the Djizzak/Gulistan Summer Camp in 2004.
- Volunteer Photos
- Welcome to Binaba!
- Host community friends; Celebrations; Agriculture
- A welcome dinner hosted by the executive members of Binaba Women's Farmers Association (BWFA) at my house in January 2005.
- Volunteer Photos
- Camel Caravan to Chinguetti
- Transportation; Host community friends; Terrain; Animals;
- This photo was taken during a camel caravan that I was on, along with a group of teachers working in Nouadhibou, Mauritania. The trip was by train, taxi and truck, and finally by camel from Nouadhibou to Chinguetti and back.
- Volunteer Photos
- Trip to Chinguetti with Teachers from Nouadhibou
- Terrain
- I am in Chinguetti with teacher colleagues after a camel caravan from Atar to Chinguetti. We were exploring the beautiful ruins of old buildings around Chinguetti, which you see here in the background. I am the third from the left in this photo.
- Volunteer Photos
- Saddling Up for a Camel Caravan
- Transportation; Host community friends; Terrain; Animals
- Here I am (left) saddling up for a camel caravan that I took with teacher colleague friends. The trip was from Nouadhibou where we lived and worked to Chinguetti, in the desert of Mauritania. We are at this point just outside of Atar, getting ready...
- Volunteer Photos
- Laura with Students at the ENSUP
- Youth; Teachers and students; Work
- This photo was taken during the summer of 1991, shortly before I finished my work in Mali as a teacher trainer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, or l'ENSUP, in Bamako, Mali. These were the greatest students...they had survived a coup d'etat, in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Patti and Laura at Tubaniso, Mali
- Country evacuations; Training sites
- This is my great Peace Corps buddy Patti (left) and I during some sort of fete at the Peace Corps training camp, Tubaniso, outside of Bamako, in Mali. We had arrived in late December, 1990 as "refugees" when we were evacuated from Mauritania. We...
- Volunteer Photos
- Children in San Benito Pointe, Toledo District
- Children; Pre-service Training (PST); Housing
- San Benito Poite is one of the most remote villages in Belize. It is about 40 miles from the nearest district town, and about 3 miles from the border with Guatemala. The town where I served was about 7 hours from here (on a good day in the dry...
- Volunteer Photos