This photo was taken in South Africa during my Peace Corps service. It is on Lion's Head Mountain. I am sitting on the ledge watching the sunset. I had the opportunity while serving in Botswana to backpack through Southern Africa and this was the...
I took this photo on World AIDS Day 2010 in a rural community in the Commonwealth of Dominica. The photo shows the primary school students who won the World AIDS Day Slogan Competition and had their design - "A Nation that is AIDS Free Begins with...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
One of a series on Jamaican celebrations, I took this photo of a first grader fussing over Baby Jesus as the actors were headed to the courtyard show. Facial expressions of his fellow performers were revealing and priceless. This 12 December...
I have been serving in Belize for the past two years. My primary assignment is working with a small mayan womens group that runs a craft center. Part of the way I decided to integrate better was to learn how to make the crafts just like them. This...
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.
This was taken at the annual Feok Festival in Sandema, UER, Ghana - 2002. It is the harvest celebration and also the celebration of the Builsa people fighting off the slave raider Babatu. The Builsas are a proud people as you can see from the...
This photo was taken in my friend Subaiya's garden. She did not have a camera and wanted to have us in a photo together. She tutored me in Hindi for the first year I lived in Jabalpur. She was a teacher at one of the local schools.
Three girls that were neighbors but they were friends with each other. One was a Hindu, one was Muslim and one a Christian. The little boy was a younger brother of the first girl. Despite their religious differences they always hung out together.
This photo is of our stall or tent at World AIDS Day Commemoration on December 9th, 2010 in Gaborone, Botswana in Tsholofelo Park. We are with the banner we carried on a long march (Stop AIDS Keep the Promise).
I took this photo at Xai-Xai Beach in Mozambique right at the end of my Peace Corps Service in June of 2007. Justin is playing the guitar and David is sitting on the right. The boys sold necklaces made of shells at the beach and were intrigued by...
I had the uncanny good luck of encountering these women very early in my PCV service and took this photo on 23 July 2007.
Good friends for years, they typified the strong networking relationships so necessary in a community struggling with major...