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    • Teaching in Ghana

    • Teaching in Ghana
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    • This is my small class of 65 students. Teaching this group was a huge challenge, but well worth it as most of them passed their general art national leaving exam.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Art Class

    • Art Class

    • Teachers and students

    • Teaching art in Ghana was not without challenges. A tin roof in the rainy season made lecturing really difficult. Thankfully art is a hands on subject.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer Trainers

    • Volunteer Trainers

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • These are the faces of experience- my Volunteer trainers who we thought of as all-knowing. Some so great that their photos are on the 8th floor wall at PC HQ.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pouring of Libation

    • Pouring of Libation

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Celebrations

    • In Ghana, the pouring of libation to honor ones ancestors is a very important ritual and is always the start to any major (and minor) function. Here, our Country Director pours libation at the Peace Corps office in Accra to celebrate the arrival of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Krobo Mountain

    • Krobo Mountain

    • Terrain

    • This is Krobo Mountain in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The mountain is sacred to the Dangbe people and people make pilgrimages to the shire at the top of the mountain to ask for blessings and pay tribute to ancestors.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Students

    • My Students

    • Youth

    • These are my three favorite students in Form 2- Theophilus Quist, Kwame Boateng, and Isaac Crabbe. Why Isaac is holding a baby doll completely escapes me.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Leaving Homestay Village

    • Leaving Homestay Village

    • Transportation

    • This photo was taken out of a Peace Corps SUV when we were leaving our homestay village in September 2007. Four Volunteers were posted in Tamala, Mali to learn Bambara and about Malian culture. We had made tight bonds with these villagers in an...
    • Volunteer Photos

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