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    • Center Mural

    • Center Mural

    • art;

    • My site-mate and I were discussing potential ideas for our center's mural project. We painted these images with respective Arabic numbers so that the students could use them as counting resources.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Becoming a Shiehk

    • Becoming a Shiehk

    • Celebrations

    • My neighbor and long time friend brought me over my Close of Service goodbye gift. A tradition dishdash, robe, head piece and prayer beads. We spent the evening with me dressed up and drinking coffee on the roof.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating Halloween at Wat Yaida School

    • Celebrating Halloween at Wat Yaida School

    • Celebrations; children

    • We had a belated Halloween party in November 2010 at Wat Yaida School. This photo is of my 5th grade class and me dressed up in our costumes. The classes that I taught, grades 5 and 6, made decorations, dressed up in costumes and went...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating an American Halloween in Bulgaria

    • Celebrating an American Halloween in Bulgaria

    • Celebrations; Children

    • Bulgarians don't really celebrate Halloween, but I introduced the holiday to my students. My kindergarteners especially loved celebrating it and got dressed up for the occasion. There was a pirate, Spiderman, a ghost, a dinosaur, and a witch among...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Parachute English Club

    • Parachute English Club

    • children; games

    • Hand-me-downs are big in Peace Corps and thats exactly how I go this parachute. I used it for my 3rd graders English Club as a reward for good behavior. This is the mushroom game which in involves team work to get the parachute to take on the shape...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tom with a student

    • Tom with a student

    • children; schools

    • Tom was teaching a very energetic student. This student was smart, but didn't know how to interact with her surroundings. Tom made it an effort to illustrate 'raising hands' as a respectful way to get someone's attention.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Uzbek Host Family

    • Uzbek Host Family

    • food and meals; host families

    • I was invited over to my host family's mother's home, a lovely compound in the southern Uzbek mountains. We feasted, toasted and had a lovely time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children's Day Festival Middle School

    • Children's Day Festival Middle School

    • host community friends

    • After the big children's day parade, a group of middle school students, the principal, the assistant principal and a male teacher posed with me on the steps of the Karamanli Orta Okulu. I'm standing in the background and except for my smile and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The slapping game

    • The slapping game

    • host families

    • My host family had my fellow training group over for lunch. We all sat, talked and Jessica taught my host sister the 'hand slapping game.' It was the hit of the afternoon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Arabic lessons

    • Arabic lessons

    • Language training

    • We all were being taught Arabic in a local school. It was the first week in the country and the lessons had gotten stressful. We moved outside to get fresh air and the morale brightened.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drum Lesson

    • Drum Lesson

    • music

    • One of our LCFs taught a fellow volunteer to play the local drums. The bus ride from seeing historic landmark was that much more fun with live music and everyone singing along.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rhythm

    • Rhythm

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Kathryn and Francisco Fernandez are Volunteers in Belmopan, Belize. This photo was taken at in Bermudan Landing at a baboon sanctuary during our first week in country as Trainees. Teaching us to hull rice, among other traditional practices, was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soccer with the boys

    • Soccer with the boys

    • sports; children

    • After arriving at our host training site, my site-mate and I were brought to play soccer with our host brother's friends. They had never seen a digital camera up close and were posing while Tom played with a few of them in the background.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roxana decorates Christmas sugar cookies

    • Roxana decorates Christmas sugar cookies

    • Celebrations; Children; Food and meals

    • I took this photo 2010 at my host family's house in a coastal village in Ecuador. My family in the US sent me a care package full of sugar cookies, sprinkles, and icing so I invited my friends and neighbors over to decorate some traditional...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Processing Palm Kernal Oil

    • Processing Palm Kernal Oil

    • Counterparts; cooking

    • This photo was taken on July 11, 2011, in Ghana. These women are taking the kernels from the oil palm fruit and processing them into oil. This labor intensive process provides an additional source of income during the summer months before the cocoa...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lunch Break

    • Lunch Break

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • This was taken when my Director of the EE sector came for our first meeting to do a needs assesment for a surrounding five villages and the local French school and all its teachers. The women in my village, Daru Thiouben, cooked lunch and carried...
    • Volunteer Photos

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