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    • Ya Ukrainka!  Lera with Host Mum Maria

    • Ya Ukrainka! Lera with Host Mum Maria

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in March of 2006 in Uzyn, Kievskaya Oblast, Ukraine, when I had been living with my host family for about a month. On the right is my host "mother" Maria, making sure I was properly dressed to go out into the cold to use the...
    • Khmer Celebration!

    • Khmer Celebration!

    • Host families; Food and Meals; Celebrations

    • This is a photo of my host mother and my host grandmothers on Chinese New Year 2010. In Cambodia many families celebrate Chinese New Year by offering food up to the ancestors and burning incense. That day we prepared three separate meals; one for...
    • My Ukrainian Host Mom

    • My Ukrainian Host Mom

    • Host families; Host community friends

    • On the left is Слава Скребнева (Slava Skrebneva), my host-mom for three years while I was in Stakhanov, Ukraine. I'm in the middle and on the right is one of our good friends. We are standing in front of the Afghanistan War Memorial...
    • Host Family in Ukraine

    • Host Family in Ukraine

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken on New Year's Eve, 2001 in the home of my host family in Berdychev, Ukraine. The family members were each dressed in their best clothes to celebrate the coming of Father Christmas at midnight. It was such a marvelous...
    • Las Dos Carmenes

    • Las Dos Carmenes

    • Host families

    • This is my PC mom Carmen, who lives in La Guacima, Costa Rica, with my daughter, Carmen. I stayed with her and her family during my PC training in 1979-80. I have stayed in contact with them since my PC days and have visited them several times. ...
    • Giant Chess

    • Giant Chess

    • Youth development; Schools; Secondary Projects

    • This picture was taken just after we finished painting a giant chess board on the gravel lot outside my school attachment. We decided to make the pieces out of recycled bottles. In the picture is me and the youth and sports teacher.
    • Chess Club

    • Chess Club

    • Camps and Clubs; Youth development; Teachers and Students

    • This is a photo of the chess club at my school attachment. I helped get the club started and my grandparents donated chess sets and teaching boards. This photo was taken just after the kids finished playing a simultaneous game with our Peace Corps...
    • Steel Pan

    • Steel Pan

    • Camps and Clubs; Teachers and Students; Music

    • This picture was taken at an Expo put on by the St. Lucia Peace Corps volunteers to display what Peace Corps is all about. During the expo some of us volunteers played the national anthems with a Lucian steel pan group that we joined. Afterward we...
    • Eej and Peter

    • Eej and Peter

    • Host families; Cooking

    • Mongolian host mother, Arlaa, and Volunteer Peter (University TEFL, 2007-2009) pinch traditional Mongolian "buuz" (dumplings) together in the summer of '07. Peter lived with Arlaa and her family in a small village called Khorol during his...

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