This photo was taken on the way home from Nouakchott, Mauritania after a training session at the Peace Corps headquarters. It was about 120 degrees and we had been waiting for hours for the car to fill up. Typically in this 8 seat car, we would...
Host community friends; Food and meals; Pre-service Training (PST); Language training
This was tea time at our language class during training. We took a break every day to have tea. Our language instructor, Aminetou, always made the tea while she spoke to us in French. A local kid, Mohammed, stopped by to play us music and I...
This photo was taken on the road to my site of Kiffa, Mauritania. Having visited a fellow volunteer in the next town over of Geuro, we decided to try and bypass the usual taxi fee by riding on top of a semi. We had seen it done before by locals...
I took this photo during the final week of school on February 25, 2009, at the primary school in Missamana, Guinea. We finished each school day with a song, and the students were extremely excited this day because school was almost over. The photo...
This is Tamai, one of the older ladies in my village. Saramaccan women work very hard harvesting, cutting, and beating rice, the primary food in a Saramaccan diet. Even women Tamai's age can put an able-bodied Peace Corps volunteer in his...
A view of my village from the top of our newly constructed water tower. This is a neighborhood called Baka Dja-- my house is just out of frame. I had a zinc roof instead of thatch, which kept snakes out but was ridiculously hot during the day.
Animals; Transportation; Pre-service Training (PST)
I took this photo during pre-service training riding on the highway with my Bulgarian host grandparents. The horses name is Maya and my host brother nicknamed her "Rolls Royce Maya" that day.