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.
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...
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...
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...
Host families; Pre-service Training (PST); Cooking
The photo was taken in 2008 during my pre-service training. This was my training host mother and she was training me to make traditional "pap" or "bogobe" which is eaten throughout rural South Africa. It was a real treat for her to show me how to...
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...
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...
Host families; Cooking; Pre-service Training (PST)
This photo was taken during my pre-service training in 2008 in South Africa. My host parents were very happy people and lived alone without children (their children are grown). They were always joking and laughing. We spent a lot of time in...
This is my host mother from the village of Phoshiri in northern South Africa (Limpopo Province). The village just received electricity in late 2007 but many of the traditional means of life have not changed (I.e., cooking over a fire). My host...
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...
This photo was taken on my Host Mother's 47th Birthday in Macedonia. Present in the picture are members of my nucleus host family. Birthdays are not hugely celebrated or not as big of a deal --for adults, as Name days (Imenden) are in Macedonia....
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...
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. ...