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    • Rush Hour Traffic

    • Rush Hour Traffic

    • Animals

    • Every night, around 6 PM, the street in front of my house is busy with traffic: walkers, motorcycles, trucks, bicycles, cars, and even geese. These water buffalo are my favorite. Sometimes they are running when they are being herded by their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sanook (Having Fun)

    • Sanook (Having Fun)

    • Games; Children; Volunteers; Older Volunteers

    • Sixty-seven year old PCV Carla Arnold (in the vest with back to camera) is acting like the 17-year old she tells everyone she is! This is Songkran (Thai New Year's, April 2011) in Thailand. This takes place during the summer season and is a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing Her Story

    • Sharing Her Story

    • traditional dress

    • Volunteer Carla Arnold is sharing her Peace Corps experiences in Thailand with her daughter, Allison, who was a Volunteer in Senegal (2005-2007). It is Thai winter and you need extra layers.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Speak English Every Day

    • Speak English Every Day

    • education; counterparts

    • My position as a Co-teacher and Collaborator with a Thai teacher of English is to help her teach and the students learn English. In order to do this Ning (pictured with me) and I started a program called SEED (Speak English Every Day). When...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • TBR (Total Body Response)

    • TBR (Total Body Response)

    • teachers and students; education

    • Volunteer Carla Arnold is demonstrating to the students Total Body Response as a way of getting them to learn new words. It is obvious the word is "driver" and the topic is? (You guessed it, occupations.) The students really love this method,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thailand is Truly the Land of Smiles!

    • Thailand is Truly the Land of Smiles!

    • Celebrations; Volunteers; Older Volunteers

    • Volunteer Carla is being honored by two Thais during Chakri, a festival celebrating the elders by putting water in their hands with flowers and powder on their faces. This picture was taken in on April 2011, shortly after I arrived at site.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Box!

    • The Box!

    • celebrations

    • There was a lot of fanfare for this "moment" during Pra Tamnittave's cremation day ceremonies. A representative (and many others) from His Majesty The King of Thailand arrived with the "box" for the Pra's ashes. The attendees at the ceremony...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Ladies in White

    • The Ladies in White

    • funerals

    • These women are from Ban Huay Kor, but went to Wat Non Wang Nang Boa, Amphur Phon, Khonkaen, Thailand, to pay their respects to the monk who was to be cremated later in the evening. This group of women are at every festival in their village.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • This Is a Winning Ticket, I Promise!

    • This Is a Winning Ticket, I Promise!

    • teachers and students; education

    • A principal is giving out tickets to the students who were speaking to him in English. The tickets are part of SEED (Speak English Every Day) which was established by Volunteer Carla Arnold and her counterpart Ning Saijung in March 2011. A...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • This is the Way You Do It!

    • This is the Way You Do It!

    • Food and meals

    • Women in my village in Thailand are showing Volunteer Carla Arnold how to make kao tom, a traditional Thai dessert. Raw rice and a piece of banana are put on a small square of banana leaf. It is folded in a very special way and secured with a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Through Rain or Rain........

    • Through Rain or Rain........

    • host community friends

    • This was the first mail delivery to my new house! No matter how much rain (and we get a lot) during the rainy season or how many dogs (and we have a lot), the mail gets delivered. This picture was taken by me (PCV Carla Arnold) in May 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • The people of Issan (Northeast Thailand) are very resourceful, especially when it comes to eating. This is a boiling ox placenta. It so happens that the calf was named "Farang" (which means foreigner) in my honor. I was the first one to be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Are All In This Together

    • We Are All In This Together

    • teachers and students; education

    • Teachers are learning English, along with the students, through the Speak English Every Day program. They are reading one of the weekly dialogues created by Volunteer Carla Arnold (2011-2013) and her Thai co-teacher. The students are given...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where in the World?

    • Where in the World?

    • Animals; Terrain

    • When I saw this view I thought of France and Camille Corot's landscape paintings of France. But no, this scene was real in Thailand. I had just moved to my permanent site in March and took this picture April 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos

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