Natase and Shania are my friends, my distraction, my adopted daughters, my salvation. Jump ropes sent from friends back home are used as a cultural exchange. I teach them the cross-over technique and they fill me in on neighborhood gossip. Photo...
Volunteers Tim, Emily, Shannon and I are sampling some of the fare at the House of Flavour rasta shop in Georgetown, Guyana. Don't always judge your meal by the looks...this was GREAT, and the fact that it cost less than $2.00 was even better! ...
One of my Peace Corps projects included a Capacity Building and Literacy Program. Classes included crafts, sewing, literacy, and computers. This photo shows three students attending their first of many sewing classes. Photo taken in March, 2009.
New Amsterdam, Guyana is below sea level. The only place with any elevation is the Canje Bridge between New Amsterdam and Canje. Part of my exercise routine includes scaling the bridge a few times a week. Most people travel by foot, bicycle,...
My husband and I recently painted a World Map on a blank wall near the Junior High School in the Eastern Region of Ghana. To encourage the students to actually use the map, we did activities related to the World Cup. One day we located all the...
This was the last dinner I had with my host family before I left training. This is in the city of Chernigov--my host mother is the blond woman at the far left. The person sitting next to me is another Peace Corps Volunteer with her host mother. I...
This was the last moment of our PST training in Targoviste, Romania and we are so very cool as we look ahead toward our service in Romania as new Peace Corps Volunteers. Here we are one hour before swearing-in!
Taken in San Luis Potosi, Mexico with 6 Peace Corps volunteers (Martha, Elizabeth, Paul, Gerry, Charles and Juliet) on June 27th, 2010. We were watching the Mexico/Argentina game in an Irish Pub.
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...