A friend sent me a miniature Christmas tree, which no one there had ever seen. So I got the opportunity to share how Christmas is celebrated in America and learn about how they celebrate it there. This picture was taken in my village of Bagare,...
Three of my students celebrate the holidays in a customary fashion -- with a HUGE party at school! Each class arranged a gift exchange and enjoyed many sugary snacks. Then the hired band (a synthesizer with two singers) started up and the dancing...
Oral English classes learned Christmas songs and performed them in class during a party in which we sang English and Chinese songs, danced, ate and exchanged presents.
My husband and I arrived in Chile in late September of 1967. Our town had never encountered Americans and were skeptical about why we were there, despite our best explanations. Perhaps as a test to win their confidence, their first request was that...
This photo was taken on Christmas Eve 2008. My host mom threw me a surprise dinner, This was done in the Kyrgyz tradition known as "guesting". My host mom invited me to come and eat with the family as her honored guest, not as her daughter. ...
Christmas was big in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. There were a couple of christian churches in town and this particular one really put on a show around Christmas.
Full text of a brochure aimed at recruiting medical doctors to serve as Peace Corps staff physicians. Discusses ways that Peace Corps doctors provided support to both Volunteers and host communities throughout the world. Although no exact date of...