I had just gotten back home to site from being in the city for two weeks of intensive in-service training. I was nervous about returning to site, returning to my normal routine, the seclusion, the intense cultural differences that make living in a...
I usually depend on my home-cooked meals to serve my vegetarian needs as the canteen only serves two things, bakso (meatballs) and nasi pecel (rice, veggies, spicy peanut sauce). I’m usually pretty weary about eating at warungs, they aren’t the...
I was invited to chaperone some student leaders who were doing a leadership/character-building workshop. In the classrooms, these students are completely different, they're quiet, they're calm, their personalities are difficult to differentiate. It...
This photo was taken in Corrales, Tumbes, Peru, on the eve of World AIDS Day, 2009. We received a small PEPFAR grant to run a year-long HIV prevention program, focused on training youth peer educators and educating the community about prevention...