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    • Christmas

    • Christmas

    • Celebrations

    • This was the best that I could do as far as decorating for Christmas in 1972. It wasn't like there was a department store nearby or anything.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children on the Street

    • Children on the Street

    • Children

    • In Iran in the late 1960's children would flock to any foreigner and call "mister...mister", barely the only English children knew. This streen scene in Harsin, Iran, in April 1970 could have been taken in any of hundreds of small towns and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Child

    • Village Child

    • Children

    • This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nearby Hills

    • Nearby Hills

    • Environment

    • This was a place that I liked to go when I wanted to get away. It was a hilltop that looked down on smaller hills and a valley with a river that ran through it. The first time I went there I couldn't figure out what was so different. And than it...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friday Picnic

    • Friday Picnic

    • Food and meals

    • Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Several times a year my fellow teachers at Ebn Sina High School, in Kangavar, Iran, would picnic in the woods along a stream just outside of town, as pictured here in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picknicking with Students

    • Picknicking with Students

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Once a year several of my fellow high school teachers in Kangavar, Iran, would select some of their best students and reward them with a picnic. Picnics were in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saturday Nights

    • Saturday Nights

    • Host community

    • Almost everyone would take to the streets on Friday or Saturday nights just to walk from one side of town to the other. Men walked together and women walked together. And you would dress nice too. This was a big deal.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Family

    • Host Family

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in the living room of my host family's home in Jaszbereny at Christmas time in 1991. In the photo you can see the grandmother, the 3 children, me and the parents. Volunteers lived with a family during the 3 months of our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home Sweet Home

    • Home Sweet Home

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken on Christmas Day 1991 from the window of my flat in Bekescsaba. Many volunteers in Hungary found themselves living in a flat in a communist-style block of buildings. I had a furnished, 2-room flat where a large family would...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lak Family

    • Lak Family

    • Housing

    • This picture is of a Lak family in the mountains of west-central Iran in Lurstan province, several hours by jeep or motorcycle from the nearest town. This family summered in the mountains and wintered in south Iran. They live in large tents and...
    • Volunteer Photos

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