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    • Birthdate Thrills!

    • Birthdate Thrills!
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    • What a delight to discover that we were born only two days apart in October of 1946. We found each other in the garden at the Golden Buddha Temple in Tong Nan during the Dragon Boat Festival on June 5, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Beans

    • Beans

    • Agriculture; Food and meals

    • Moyogalpa, Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua- 2008 Don Miguel is sifting through a harvest of beans. On Ometepe, many families harvest their own crops to feed themselves for the year.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Act like a tree!

    • Act like a tree!

    • Agriculture; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken after some students helped me plant new fruit trees on their school compound. Hopefully when these trees yield fruit the kids can eat it at lunch instead of chips! The students loved helping me and were shocked that I let...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp Excite

    • Camp Excite

    • Camps and clubs

    • This is a photo of students and campers that was taken at Camp Excite, a camp in the Sumy oblast region of Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Message Behind the Game

    • The Message Behind the Game

    • Camps and clubs

    • The message behind the game that is pictured is this: Everyone must work together so that the goal of placing the stick on the ground can be achieved. Even though it is just a game, I feel as though it is very similar to our Peace Corps service. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp Excite Flag

    • Camp Excite Flag

    • Camps and clubs

    • This picture was taken at Camp Excite near Sumy, Ukraine. The flag is the symbol of Camp Excite- the Ukrainian and American flag joined by a light bulb.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Campers

    • Campers

    • Camps and clubs; Youth

    • Students pictured here are at Camp Excite in the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine. This picture is special to me because Ukrainians are not often caught smiling. You can tell these campers were having a good time at camp.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fakaleiti Couple

    • Fakaleiti Couple

    • Career; Education

    • During English Week we had a career day where students and teachers dress up as people/ occupations they want to be. Here is one teacher, dressed up as a flight attendant with a student dressed up as a pregnant doctor.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Songkran in My Village

    • Songkran in My Village

    • Celebrations

    • I took this photo during the Songkran Festival on April 14, 2011, in Thailand. Songkran celebrates the traditional Thai New Year and is a national holiday. One of the hallmarks of Songkran is the throwing of water - people flock to the streets to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Halloween Dance Party In Bulgaria

    • Halloween Dance Party In Bulgaria

    • Celebrations

    • This photo was taken on October 29, 2010 in the gym at Gimnasia Vasil Levsk (high school) in Bulgaria. I worked with a group of students to present a Halloween Party. There was a skit, a song, and a group of students performed the Thriller Dance,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 4th of July

    • 4th of July

    • Celebrations; Camps and clubs

    • This is a photo of Peace Corps Volunteer Rose with an American eagle tattoo on her face to celebrate the 4th of July. This photo was taken in Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Harvest Blessings

    • Harvest Blessings

    • Celebrations; Religion

    • This is a photo of an Easter basket in Ukraine about to be blessed by the priest. Early in the morning on Easter Sunday, people gather at the church with a basket that includes a traditional Easter bread called "paska," with a candle in it, as well...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Easter Sunday in Ukraine

    • Easter Sunday in Ukraine

    • Celebrations; Religion

    • People gather at the church at 4a.m. with baskets complete with traditional paska bread, a candle, and items from their garden and wait for the priest to bless everything.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stanley and Tarlue

    • Stanley and Tarlue

    • Children

    • These are two neighbor boys in Ziahtown (Zwedru County, Liberia) with a tow money bus that they made themselves from bamboo. The windshield was made from the plastic wrap from tee shirts my parents had sent to me. The photo was taken in 1976.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Summer Girls of Wu Long

    • Summer Girls of Wu Long

    • Children

    • I took this photo during a summer project in Wu Long, the poorest corner of Chongqing Municipality, China. The girls were hanging out on a tennis judging stand outside the Wu Long Experimental Middle School teaching building where 17 of us were...
    • Volunteer Photos

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