Me and my students celebrating Novruz holiday at Khizi City High School in Khizi City, Azerbaijan. I am proudly wearing my jacket with the Peace Corps logo on it. To me, Peace Corps Service was an amazing way of representing America abroad.
My host family and I celebrating Thanksgiving. I was honored that my host family bought 2 turkeys for Thanksgiving. I lived with host family for the duration of Peace Corps. They were gracious to me.
I took this photo during my first few weeks teaching 3rd and 4th grade elementary school in Belize. Our indigenous K'ekchi Maya students were making homemade flags celebrating Belize's 25th year as an independent nation.
This is my partner and I on the day of the long-awaited opening of our Youth Resource Center. The building had been a library in Soviet times. The town gave us the building, and we worked - with many youth volunteers and PCPP funds - to convert...
This photo was taken in southern Morocco, in my site, which is comfortably nestled into a river valley in the Sahara Desert. In April 2009, my mom came to visit me in Morocco. I treasure this picture, sitting in between my real mother (on the left)...
This photo was taken on my Host Mother's 47th Birthday in Macedonia. Present in the picture are members of my nucleus host family. Birthdays are not hugely celebrated or not as big of a deal --for adults, as Name days (Imenden) are in Macedonia....