I was greeted coming home from language training each day by an 84-year old grandmother next door. She often gave me fruit or boiled potatoes, and invited me to sit down and chat, though we could not understand each other. In this photo, I was...
In this photo, I was cutting grapes with my host mother's father walking in the background. This was a late September day, and the grapes were ripe. A full morning was spent cutting them down, and they were soon processed into wine and rakia,...
My good friend Slavi took me and some other volunteers for a walk to his cottage in the countryside, and on the way we encountered his mother's donkey. Being a normal mode of transportation in and around my town, Slavi proceeded to show us how to...
Work; Children; Celebrations; Teachers and students
I spent an hour a week with a group of 4-5 year olds at one of the local kindergartens. I was asked to share some American holidays with them, and told them about Thanksgiving. The children seemed very excited about turkeys, so we made turkeys by...
The town I spent my service in is named Nedelino. This view captures most of the town from a hotel on a nearby mountain. Nestled in the Rhodopi Mountains, Nedelino still uses Roman and Turkish bridges to cross the river, has both mosques and a...
Inspecting a pond with other aquaculture (fisheries) volunteers. We grew Tilapia. This was part of our orientation to farming in Zaire, prior to language training at Bukavu, Lake Kivu. 1980