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...
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.
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...
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...