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    • Host Mother & Best Friend

    • Host Mother & Best Friend

    • Host community friends

    • This is Saya, the woman I considered "mother" in Niger, West Africa. Although I did not live with Saya and her family, she treated me as part of her family. This picture was taken in October 2006 during the fete de Ramadan. Saya is a beautiful...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host parents with Molly, Donna, and Heather

    • Host parents with Molly, Donna, and Heather

    • Host families

    • This is a photo taken in Fall 2009 of our Ukrainian host parents with three volunteers whom they hosted during training. Our host mother, Lyuda, invested many hours and late nights teaching us Ukrainian and Russian, and our host father, Misha,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bringing cheerleading to Romania

    • Bringing cheerleading to Romania

    • Camps and clubs

    • In April 2008, the Balan Peace Corps Volunteers organized a giant cheerleading session for English Friendship Club. The 30 middle schoolers had matching T-Shirts with the club logo, a gift from our families in America, and we made pompoms to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Romania Journalism Camp

    • Romania Journalism Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Youth development

    • In August 2007, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers across Romania converged on Sovata, Ro., in Transylvania for a week-long journalism camp. Here Volunteer Matt Zdon helps students prepare articles for the camp newspaper.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Somlyo

    • Somlyo

    • Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • As a Peace Corps volunteer, I took part in the annual Somlyo pilgrimage. "Ave Maria" echoed through the high mountain valley as it has every Pentecost for 440 years. Horsemen in wool Hussars uniforms, cardinals in jewel-tone robes and peasant...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Romanian Hula

    • Romanian Hula

    • Children; Camps and clubs

    • The four Peace Corps volunteers in my little Romanian mountain town of Balan teamed up for a middle school English club, "English Friendship Club," as named by the students. We hosted weekly meetings and a once-a-month themed party. In February,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kristen & Ionutz

    • Kristen & Ionutz

    • Children; Celebrations

    • Balan, Romania: At a ceremony for the dead in the spring of 2008, one of my preschoolers came up to me to show off his English. He was a stellar student, besides being sweet and one of the very few preschoolers who could answer "How are you" with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saying Goodbye

    • Saying Goodbye

    • Children; Teachers and Students; Youth;

    • Peace Corps volunteer Ferris Badge and I took on an additional project of teaching preschool. My primary assignment was in the high school, and Ferris worked with an eco-club. With our most advanced class, we ended every session singing the Barney...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Churchkhela

    • Making Churchkhela

    • Cooking; Food and Meals; Host community friends

    • I took this during a visit to the village home of one of my Georgian friends. His family was making "churchkhela" - a candy made by boiling grape juice and flower and coating strings of walnuts. It's delicious and making it is always a family...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kristen & Maricica

    • Kristen & Maricica

    • Host families

    • This was near Balan, Romania. My host mother was dropping me off in the county seat so I could catch a train to the capital at the end of my service. She gave me about 200 kisses as she cried and said goodbye. She was a woman with great love in her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Easter Feast

    • Easter Feast

    • Host families; Food and meals

    • I took this picture of my host family on Easter Day, 2004, in Sartichaala, Georgia. It's a tradition to have a feast in a cemetery on Easter. This was my third day in country and a wonderful introduction to Georgian customs.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dr. Seuss in Transylvania

    • Dr. Seuss in Transylvania

    • Schools; Education; Youth

    • Bianca, an 11th grader, helps fifth graders sound out words in a Dr. Seuss book as part of a project aiming to promote English and reading. The books were donated by friends in the United States. The 5th graders loved the attention from high...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Romania Wedding

    • A Romania Wedding

    • Weddings; Religion

    • My counterpart married in February 2008. After the civil ceremony in town hall, the procession moved to the Orthodox church - unheated in the chilly Transylvanian winter. Then came a 200-person party that lasted until sunrise.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Arrrr, Middle Schoolers

    • Arrrr, Middle Schoolers

    • Youth; Celebrations

    • Three members of English Friendship Club were among those dressed as pirates for a monthly themed party in Balan, Romania. After pirate-themed activities, the 30 members were given "booty," matching club t-shirts. The January 2008 meeting was one...
    • Volunteer Photos

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