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    • Getting Our Hands Dirty

    • Getting Our Hands Dirty

    • Pre-service training (PST); Agriculture

    • This was taken at a "Sufficiency Economy" visited during Peace Corps training in Ayutthaya, Thailand in March, 2011. These trainees were practicing building a hut out of mud bricks. Sufficiency Economy was an idea created by the King after the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Game On

    • Game On

    • Games

    • During my first week at site, I was introduced to the love Thai people have for sports. Even though there was torrential rain and flooding, the games went on. In between soccer games, the children had fun chasing down ducks in this case, and on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making "Pad Pak" (Thai fried vegetables)

    • Making "Pad Pak" (Thai fried vegetables)

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • This photo taken in the kitchen of a home in a village in Thailand in March, 2011. Thai food is cooked at such a high temperature, it's useful to cook in front of an open window or outside, otherwise a hot house gets even hotter! This photo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Artisan at Work

    • Artisan at Work

    • Artisans

    • I found this man in a tiny village, an oasis dried up by years of drought. If not for the few wires one could see hanging outside some adobe homes, the sensation was of entering a warp to a time when history began. The man's potter wheel was run...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • This photo was taken of me while distributing supplies that were donated by an elementary school in the U.S. to a rural Mayan school in Guatemala. As an agricultural extentionist from '99 - '01, I often worked in schools such as this one, helping...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Best Friends

    • New Best Friends

    • Host families; Children

    • This photo was taken in the Comarca Ngobe Bugle, Panama in 2007 during my site visit, part of the pre-service training. The host mom and dad were too busy preparing meals but the host brothers and sisters took me around the neighborhood posing for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rice Paddy Training

    • Rice Paddy Training

    • Counterparts

    • In conjunction with my neighbor (also a Volunteer), we are training our counterparts how to construct and plant rice paddies in the rural areas of Panama, 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My friend Sophia

    • My friend Sophia

    • Children; Host families

    • This is a photo taken during training in Paraguay. Sophia is related to my training family and lives next door. Many times Sophia would come and visit me while I was studying and go through my pictures from home. After many times of looking through...
    • Volunteer Photos

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