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    • Gaborone, Botswana World AIDS Day

    • Gaborone, Botswana World AIDS Day

    • hiv/aids; children

    • 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).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Guitar Lessons at Xai-Xai Beach

    • Guitar Lessons at Xai-Xai Beach

    • music; children

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old One

    • Old One

    • elders

    • I was visiting my host mom (a teacher of Russian) at her school. She and a couple of other tachers where cleaning their classrooms before the school year started. This lady, whom I called "old one" was there to help. She was the regular cleaning...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Team Building

    • Team Building

    • Celebrations; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 9, 2011 in Tryavna, Bulgaria, with a group of four volunteers who were taking part in Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary activities. The photo depicts a team building activity we are preparing to perform, and I am...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; games

    • This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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