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    • Frutas en la Playa

    • Frutas en la Playa

    • Markets; Host families

    • After coming back from a day at the beach in February 2012, we were amazed by the amount of fresh, local fruit and wanted to take a picture of my host brother in front of the fruit stand where we bought mangoes and bananas!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandfather and Grandson Labor

    • Grandfather and Grandson Labor

    • Host community friends

    • Hand dying the threads is one of the essential steps in the process to make the traditional hand woven wraps worn by the Indigenous Women of Guatemala. This photo was taken in December 2011 in a village in the highlands where these wraps are made...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Green House Prepares for March Past

    • Green House Prepares for March Past

    • Youth; Teachers and students; Education; Sports

    • St. Dominics RC Primary School students prepare for the March Past portion of their annual sports day at the La Sagesse playing field. They are in competition with the yellow and red houses (all Grenadian national colors) to see who can be the most...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand Tilling Corn Fields

    • Hand Tilling Corn Fields

    • Agriculture

    • Both men and women take part in the hard labor of hand tilling the corn fields. Starting early in the morning, eating lunch in the field that is brought in baskets by the women, and then returning the next day since there are several acres...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-dying Threads

    • Hand-dying Threads

    • Artisans

    • The process to make Corte, the traditional Indigenous wrap worn by the women of all ages, has many steps and takes several weeks. Hand-dying the thread is done outside in big buckets year-round since corte is made daily here in San Andres Xecul,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-grinding Corn

    • Hand-grinding Corn

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • Everyday corn is eaten with each meal in the form of tortillas or tomalitos. The corn must be ground in order to make a masa that can then be formed by hand to make tortillas or cooked in a the same corn husk leaf to cook in water to make...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-weaving Corte

    • Hand-weaving Corte

    • Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Corte, the traditional Indigenous wrap worn by women is hand made with several steps. This giant loom is the final step of this process that takes several weeks. In the town of San Andres Xecul, Totonicapan, Guatemala, corte is made by the majority...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Happy birthday Dr. Seuss from Armenia

    • Happy birthday Dr. Seuss from Armenia

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • This photo was taken at the local YMCA in Armenia where I held a read to kids day in honor of Doctor Seuss. Peace Corps Volunteers read Dr. Seuss stories aloud to children in small groups. The kids then made arts and crafts related to the stories...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Horno Casero

    • Horno Casero

    • Children; Cooking; Camps and clubs

    • I teach three cooking classes a week with various women´s groups, and this time we made an home-made oven (horno casero) to cook stuffed peppers. This boy lives at the house in which we were cooking and usually loves to get involved with our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lighting Fire Crackers

    • Lighting Fire Crackers

    • Children

    • Guatemalan kids love fire crackers, especially as a tradition many take part in during the holidays. Stores always sell fire crackers and in December 2011 just before Christmas many were being lit and set off here in the highlands of Guatemala.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Tamales!

    • Making Tamales!

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • Guatemalan tamales are made with corn masa or ground rice, small piece of pork or beef cooked in a spiced sauce, and for special occasions prunes and red pepper are added. These are eaten around holidays, birthdays, or in some communities every...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Market Man

    • Market Man

    • Markets

    • This is my favorite friend in the Marketplace in St. Georges. He is loyal, fair and always has a great story. His most featured produce is not really edible- its called a calabash, a traditional, hollowed out, solid bowl used for placing bagged...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morning Dew

    • Morning Dew

    • Agriculture; Food and meals

    • The highlands of Guatemala gets very cold during the night and in the morning one finds frost all over. The corn is placed on the roofs to dry out to be used all year, and in the morning it is found with frost and dew. This photo was taken in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Night

    • Night

    • housing

    • My husband, Peace Corps Volunteer, Matthew Wolf, took this picture of me, Alyssa Wolf, in our home in Natuvu Village Fiji. He took it one evening in 2010. The picture shows our usual night time lighting- kerosene lamp- as there is no electricity...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Weight Loss!

    • Peace Corps Weight Loss!
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    • This Volunteer was showing us in the Peace Corps Office in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala his success over the past 2 years of his service in losing weight and having to make new holes in his belt. He explained that finally reaching a healthy weight...
    • Volunteer Photos

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