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    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Teachers and students; World Map Project

    • My Associate Peace Corps Director (APCD) suggested me to do this project with my students. It was a huge success and the students and faculty loved the project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Machine

    • Washing Machine

    • Work; Housing

    • This picture was taken by my sister Karen when she came to visit me in Nicaragua in 2001. I got to wash our clothes by hand on the pila, a concrete washboard and sink. This was a source of great amusement and connection with my grandmother who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Steps to Likpe Todome Caves and Waterfall

    • Steps to Likpe Todome Caves and Waterfall

    • Host community friends; Ecotourism

    • This is a picture taken in July of 2008. The Peace Corps volunteer, Leanne Polachek, poses with members of the Likpe Todome community. The community members are creating steps to their ancestral caves and waterfall which are part of a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Singing for Our Supper

    • Singing for Our Supper

    • Music; Celebrations

    • Singing in the photo are Dick Lundgren, Dee Maning, Rich Holmes, Neil Dupree, Joyce Emery, and Roger Lavallee. One was usually asked to perform at functions. This was on our visit to established volunteers in the Cotobato area of Mindano in 1965.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations; Dance

    • My students (all future English teachers) at the Humanitarian Pedagogical College dance an Irish jig. Our celebration included a play, skits, songs, trivia, and this dance. My students loved to dance, but I am not a dance instructor and the only...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roof Rethatching

    • Roof Rethatching

    • Housing

    • Adding more dried grass to the hut's roof to cover up leaky gaps. The photo was taken in Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia in 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing for Winter

    • Preparing for Winter

    • Food and meals; Host families

    • This photo was taken on November 24, 2007, during my second week at my permanent site in Aksukent, Kazakhstan. My host mother and host sisters worked all day to chop cabbage and carrots into this huge pile. They then added salt and pepper and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Outfit Complete

    • Outfit Complete

    • Teachers and students; Traditional dress

    • Volunteer Tom Vinson in the complete country cloth chief's outfit, a gift from students at Matilda Newport Junior High School, Monrovia in May, 1969. Pictured from left are Bea, John, Valerie, and Tom Vinson. The robe was a great honor to receive.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nana Komla Dihie III

    • Nana Komla Dihie III

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; Elders

    • This is a photo of Nana Komla Dihie III, the chief of Likpe Todome and Krontihene of the Likpe traditional area in the Volta Region of Ghana. Nana is presiding over a groundbreaking ceremony as part of a community-based tourism development project....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Music

    • Making Music

    • Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This photo shows the celebration of a new tribal paramount chief in Gbarnga, Liberia in December 1969. Note the ceremonial tusk horn.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Let's Do Spreadsheets!

    • Let's Do Spreadsheets!

    • Teachers and students; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

    • During 2001 and 2002 I taught computer classes to high school children in my town in Eastern Honduras. We studied the basics of Microsoft Word and Excel.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Celebrations; Games

    • Kazakh horsemen participate in a game of Kokpar during the Nauryz celebration to mark the beginning of Spring. Two teams attempt to take possession of a headless goat carcass and drop it in a goal on their side of the field. The field was muddy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • International Cooking with English Class

    • International Cooking with English Class

    • Teachers and students; Food and meals

    • Here in my bucataria at the gazda house are some of my talented chefs making a bechamel sauce. It was perfect the first time! There are twelve regular students who cook with me monthly to learn new recipes in English from all parts of the world. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Food and meals; Host families

    • This photo shows my Uzbek host family, with whom I lived for all of my two years at site. In parts of Southern Kazakhstan there are many Uzbeks, who lived there long before the Soviets drew the current borders. From left to right: me, host mom,...
    • Volunteer Photos

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