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    • On Our Way Home

    • On Our Way Home

    • Transportation

    • Me with a stateside friend (who was also a Volunteer in Nepal 66-68) and a Sierra Leonean friend. We were on the way to his home village for a holiday visit during the Christmas break in 1977.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coloring on the Porch

    • Coloring on the Porch

    • Children; Youth; Education; Art; Education

    • This picture reflects my happiest and most memorable experience of my Peace Corps service in East Timor. On an almost nightly basis, the kids from my neighborhood in Manatuto would come over to my porch and we would color, dance, and joke around. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Bride

    • Young Bride

    • Weddings; Youth

    • After the first year of service, I moved to a new apartment that had been occupied by a former Volunteer. She had left in one of the closets a few blankets. Another Volunteer in Arad and I decided to bring those blankets to a very poor family that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Schools; Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Food and meals

    • I was teaching Conversational English in two high schools, one was Colegiul Baptist. This picture was at the teacher's cafeteria of Colegiul National Elena Ghiba-Birta in Arad, the then director of the school Doamna Iegariu poses for the camera in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roma Woman Selling Rugs

    • Roma Woman Selling Rugs

    • Markets

    • This is part of the market portrait photos. (This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the Local Market

    • At the Local Market

    • Elders; Markets

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bunica Watching

    • Bunica Watching

    • Elders; Housing

    • Very often older people in Romania like to watch who is entering or leaving the building....This "bunica" or grandma is looks out the window.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Elders; Host community

    • In the city of Arad, on my way to the after school program run my the orphanage where I worked, I saw this older gentleman carefully balancing on the icy sidewalk.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the local market

    • At the local market

    • Elders

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • Youth development; Secondary projects

    • A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Slovak Version of a Political Rally

    • A Slovak Version of a Political Rally

    • Volunteers; Host families; Pre-service training (PST)

    • During our training our host mother asked us to go with here into nature (hike) into the hills surrounding the village of Modra. We didn't know at the time that is was a political rally for a political party, of which there were many. We were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Returning Home

    • Returning Home

    • transportation; Elders

    • For Slovaks that live in the country, wood is essential for heating and cooking. So, a day cutting wood was accomplished by these men, and we met them on their way home. Obviously, a horse drawn wagon uses the same roads as automobiles and trucks...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Going to Town

    • Going to Town

    • Transportation

    • Stopped along a country road in Central Slovakia, to our surprise came this Slovak couple traveling to town on their horse drawned wagon. When asked if they had a car they said "no." They must have wondered why Americans were in the countryside...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Class of 1997

    • Class of 1997

    • Swearing-in ceremonies

    • After three grueliing months of training we finally arrived at the graduation ceramony in Slovakia. Nelson Chase, Country Director, was at the podium congratulating us for accomplishing our first step. As I remember, no one had left our class at...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Let the Creative Juices Flow

    • Let the Creative Juices Flow

    • Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers; Art; Education

    • In an effort to nurture creativity, the training staff engaged the Volunteers in a group mural painting exercise. We all made contributions and learned collective creative thinking. But it didn't do much for our painting skills.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mostar Bridge - Under Reconstruction

    • Mostar Bridge - Under Reconstruction

    • Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); Architecture;

    • Volunteer Tracy Mathieu in front of the English/Bosnian gate with the sign "access strictly forbidden for unemployed persons" ... a curious translation! Mostar had many foreigners vesting from pilgrimages and the city was a priority for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Woodcutter in the Woods

    • Woodcutter in the Woods

    • Elders

    • While staying with two Slovak young men at a historic mill in the woods of the High Tatry of Northern Slovakia, I was invited to join them in walking to a cabin, the home of an old woodcutter. One of the young men had promised to take photos of his...
    • Volunteer Photos

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