PCV Chris talks with women from my women's group during our 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps celebration dinner. The women's group gathered to hear experiences from Volunteers both in China and in other countries served. Afterwards, they ate a...
Volunteer Chris talks to my women's group about being a Volunteer in Senegal during our celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps. Taken June 2011.
Volunteer Katie talks with women from my women's group during our 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps celebration dinner. The women's group gathered to hear experiences from Volunteers both in China and in other countries served. Afterwards, they ate a...
I took this photo one very hot afternoon after lunch in my village, Goudoude Diobe. All the adults typically slept after the meal, but the girls and I would continue to talk and laugh. As soon as I took my camera out, there was a frenzy to see...
Here you will find myself and fellow trainee, Mike, along with two of our language instructors (from left to right - Wahi and Ishou), enjoying a break outside a village at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains in the summer of 1998. This was part...
This photo was taken in Indonesia at the Bung Karno Museum in early May. I shot this photo before I discovered the "dilarang memfoto" sign. Bung Karno, Indonesia's first President, grew up in Blitar, and people pride themselves on the fact that he...
Camp HEAL (Human trafficking, Education, Aids/HIV, Leadership) is a camp held in Ukraine. The camp is a week long camp that helps educate the Ukrainian youth in these topics. In the picture are the camp directors, both Peace Corps Volunteers and...
Children love using art as a way of expression. In my tiny village in northeastern Senegal, these two little boys were selected by their teachers to participate in an art club that I held once a week after classes. The children had a unique way...
I took this photo on August 11, 2011. It illustrates two of my Year 10 female students, Natashia Shing (left) & Judy Taleo (right), from the Onesua Presbyterian College in North Efate, Vanuatu, researching the internet for their Computer Science...
The photo was taken on November 1st, 2010 at a high school in the Philippines. During the semester break, I worked with four artistic Filipino students on this world map mural. This wall is located at the entrance of the school, where students...
This is a photo of the annual town fair that I took in July of 2009. In this picture one of the local school children is dressed in traditional Mayan clothing, as a celebration of Mayan culture.
Women from my women's group are enjoying a western dinner while attending a celebration marking the 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps. Taken June 10, 2011 at my apartment at China West Normal University in Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
Every year, when the herders would come back around June, they would host a celebration in my village, Goudoude Diobe, Senegal. The younger men would lead their herd of goats and sheep around in a large circle, performing small tricks for the...
In this photo, my English students are working on creating a poster to describe the musical genre of jazz through colors, pictures, drawings, and lyrics. November, 2010.
A fellow Volunteer and myself decided to have a Halloween party for the neighborhood kids in Guyana. We made the costumes, which included a pirate (pictured), a mouse, a cat, a bumblebee, a ladybug and a basketball player.
I took this photo in a small Muslim village in Bulgaria. The boys were climbing the fence after our soccer (football) game of Americans versus Bulgarians. Another Volunteer and I played together against some of the boys in the village. We had an...