This is a photo of the Girl Guides and myself at the top of Pigeon Point in Saint Lucia in August 2009. We did this hike as a wrap-up to our week-long HIV/AIDS & Healthy Lifestyles day camp, made possible through a SPA grant.
April Fool's Day in Odessa--a national holiday unlike any other in Ukraine. My counterpart and I escorted students to the port city of Odessa for a day-trip.
Two Peace Corps Volunteers sitting on a bus outside of Odessa, Ukraine. No idea where the bus driver is or when (or if) we will leave. And who cares in this moment in the time?
On March, 6th 2010 a small village in Ukraine celebrated it's annual Meeting of Spring or Зустріч Весна. The subjects in this photo are Olexi, his daughter and Laryssa. As neighbors, they and others on their street created a float and...
This photo was taken during a spring festival called Meeting of Spring or Зустріч Весна, March, 6th 2010. In this small village in Ukraine, The Meeting of Spring is the single largest public celebration held each year around March, 1st....
this is a picture of my training group during a HUB day in Macedonia. The HUB day fell on Halloween 2009 and my training group really got into the Halloween spirit. We each went as the American holidays: St. Valentine (cupid), St. Patricks, the...
Easter celebration in Republica Moldova with my host family-- Luiba, her two sons Nicoli,Dema and grand daughter Luiba and grand son Demetra and great grand daughter Lubas. She is standing next to me and her eldest son Dema. They are a wonderful...
My host mother Nanuca and me in front of the Prut river in the spring of 2010. She and I were standing on what was formerly the border of the USSR. We explored the riverbank, which for the last half century was beyond a fence, formerly electrified...
Me, my host mother Nanuca, and our friend Tom in the summer of 2008. We're standing near our gazebo, which is covered with grape vines. Over the course of my service many a meal and conversation were had in that gazebo.
My host mother Nanuca and me mid-conversation in the summer of 2008. At times she's quite the comedian, which is why I'm looking at her so incredulously. Despite the near sixty years that separate us, we got along swimmingly and had many such...
This is a photo of me and my host mother at the annual St. Michael's Fair in my town, August 2008. This was only a couple months after I arrived at site. My host family from my training site (about 3 hours away) came to check on me and make sure I...
Photo was taken Easter Weekend, 2010. I went home to celebrate Easter with my host family. This photo of my mom Mary and I were taken in our backyard by my sister Victoria.