This picture was taken the friday before Halloween, in my third grade English class in Armenia. I shared with the children the halloween tradition by having them make jack-o-lanterns at home with their family. Then, on the day of the Halloween...
This photo was taken in my backyard with my two favorite neighbors- Ging and Sia Mai. Three Peace Corps staff members had visited me the week before and given out some balloons. It made these little girls' day.
Children; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation
While building wells in a rural community in the hottest months of the year (April), I stumbled upon this little guy trying to cool off inside a chamber pot.
This picture was taken in the beginning of '2010 at a laguna at the foot of Momotombo Volcano in Nicaragua. A group of us went hunting with slingshots for Iguanas, and this was my catch of the day! Normally these iguanas are sold on the side of...
I go to this house every week to teach English as well as teach a cooking class. While the food was cooking, we went outside and the kids were showing me the bicyce cart their dad uses to sell their goods at the market. They love having their photo...
I teach three cooking classes a week with various women´s groups, and this time we made an home-made oven (horno casero) to cook stuffed peppers. This boy lives at the house in which we were cooking and usually loves to get involved with our...
This was taken in my village in the highlands of Guatemala in August 2010. This girl is one of my English students and after class we went on an adventure to play outside. We walked passed one of her neighbors cows and she got down to see it face...
I took this photo one evening while walking home during May 2010. I was in pre-service training at that time in a village in Ukraine. Pre-service training was difficult. We had lessons all day, were learning a new language, and still adjusting...
I had the opportunity to take a camel trek in the Sahara Desert during my Peace Corps service in Morocco. Here, I am joined by my teaching colleague and friend, and other friends during the camel trek in the spring of 2007. I never knew there were...
One of my favorite jobs in Morocco was mentoring youth at a juvenile facility in Fes, the country's oldest city. Some of the kids joined me for a candid moment after an attempt to teach them a few words in English in the fall of 2006.