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    • Musical Break

    • Musical Break

    • Host community friends; Food and meals; Pre-service Training (PST); Language training

    • This was tea time at our language class during training. We took a break every day to have tea. Our language instructor, Aminetou, always made the tea while she spoke to us in French. A local kid, Mohammed, stopped by to play us music and I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hitching a Ride

    • Hitching a Ride

    • Transportation

    • This photo was taken on the road to my site of Kiffa, Mauritania. Having visited a fellow volunteer in the next town over of Geuro, we decided to try and bypass the usual taxi fee by riding on top of a semi. We had seen it done before by locals...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mesmerized and Curious Observers

    • Mesmerized and Curious Observers

    • Children; Housing; Host community friends

    • I was sitting on the inside "veranda" of a hut in Guinea in 1996. I was visiting the family of one of my English students. It was a very hot and sunny day in late January. We all gathered inside the mud and straw hut to avoid the heat. The children...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reberao, Brazil

    • Reberao, Brazil

    • Children; Nutrition; Gardens

    • On a Fazenda de Cana (sugar cane planataion) 40 KM west of Recife, Brazil, I spent all of 1970 in a nutrition education program. This photo was taken of me (age 23) with 18 school children in the school garden, built by the children, eaten by the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lamb on Donkey

    • Lamb on Donkey

    • Animals; Transportation

    • The sheep herders in the Bran area of rural Romania sometimes pick up and carry a lamb who is not keeping pace with the herd. This lamb got a ride on the herder's donkey.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drying Wool

    • Drying Wool

    • Animals; Work

    • In the northeastern area of Romania, I came across this woman drying freshly-shorn sheep's wool on her fence and in her courtyard.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Needed supplies

    • Needed supplies

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken when I was teaching at a rural school in northern Guatemala. We had several school gardens up and running, but also received some well-needed donations of school supplies, including their first ever globe.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • American-Khmer Family Portrait

    • American-Khmer Family Portrait

    • Host families

    • This is a photo of me, my American parents and my immediate Khmer host-family members. This was taken a year into my service in Cambodia (April 2008) at my host-family's house in Peam ChiKang village.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cambodian Classroom

    • Cambodian Classroom

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken of my 12A class early in my service (circa 2007) at the Samdech Hun Sen Peam ChiKang Upper Secondary School in Peam ChiKang village, Kang Meas district, Kampong Cham province. This is a typical Cambodian classroom.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hanging Out at the Wat

    • Hanging Out at the Wat

    • Architecture; Religion; Children

    • This is one my favorite photos from my service in Cambodia. This photo was taken during my pre-service training in Kampong Siem district in Kampong Cham province. The wat (more commonly known as a pagoda) aren't just used for religious...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Waiting Room

    • The Waiting Room

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Celebrations

    • This is a photo taken on April 4, 2007, the day our group of Peace Corps trainees became the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Cambodia. We were placed in the backroom of a hall on the campus of the National Institute of Education...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lining Up

    • Lining Up

    • Sports; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken in Kampong Cham town, Kampong Cham province in early 2008. This photo is of the first girl's basketball team from Peam ChiKang USS (green jerseys) lining up prior to the start of their first competition of the season (which, I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Pakistan Sign

    • Peace Corps Pakistan Sign

    • Architecture; Training sites

    • This was the sign placed at our headquarters building in Lahore, Pakistan - we shared the building with a dentist's office. The Urdu reads 'Amriki Dostamin.'
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tonga in Hyderabad, Sindh

    • Tonga in Hyderabad, Sindh

    • Transportation

    • Tonga on the street in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan back in 1962 - this was the equivalent of a cab and what we used when we left the train station. They were highly and brightly decorated and carried up to six people at once. See also the picture of...
    • Volunteer Photos

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