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    • The Computer Guru

    • The Computer Guru

    • Elders

    • This is the first time my Mama Gazda used a computer. She is talking to her granddaughter in Moscow via the internet in Moldova. She is 82 years old and such a wonderful person.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bulgarian Bench

    • The Bulgarian Bench

    • elders; host community friends

    • This photo was taken in the spring of 2010, as I was traveling with my students and colleagues around different villages in northeastern Bulgaria for our First of Spring celebration. Every day we see grandmothers and grandfathers on benches,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tea and Stories

    • Tea and Stories

    • Elders; Host community friends

    • This is a photo of me with my neighbor, Maria Yegorovna. I would visit her often to drink tea and hear her stories about life as a teenager working in the coal mines of Karaganda during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). She didn't have...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tamai

    • Tamai

    • Elders; Food and meals

    • This is Tamai, one of the older ladies in my village. Saramaccan women work very hard harvesting, cutting, and beating rice, the primary food in a Saramaccan diet. Even women Tamai's age can put an able-bodied Peace Corps volunteer in his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • T'schila Woman Cooking

    • T'schila Woman Cooking

    • Elders; Pre-service training (PST); Cooking

    • I took this photo during training in April of 2008 while visiting the T'schila tribe in El Poste, Ecuador. The photo shows an elderly woman of the tribe traditionally cooking food in a hut.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sumqayit Shore

    • Sumqayit Shore

    • culture shock and adaptation; elders

    • I took this photo our first day in our training location, Sumqayit, Azerbaijan - a suburb of the capital city of Baku, and a former Soviet industrial playground perched on the Caspian Sea. Having only arrived in country a week earlier, my husband...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stringing Tobacco

    • Stringing Tobacco

    • Elders; Agriculture

    • In the Rhodope Region of Bulgaria growing tobacco is a common source of income and sometimes the only. During the last few weeks of July and August villagers are found in shaded spots along the village road stringing tobacco leaves on twine in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Straw Mat Weaving 101

    • Straw Mat Weaving 101

    • artisans; elders; host families

    • This is a photo of my host mother during Pre-Service Training from March 3, 2010 in Matshipe, South Africa. A Sotho mother of eight, she loved to spend the hot South African summers laying on her woven straw mats underneath the shade. One...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Skip and Yi Grandma

    • Skip and Yi Grandma

    • Children; Elders

    • This photo was taken in August of 2010 during one of my return visits to my host community. I served just outside the town of Xichang, in Sichuan province, and the area has a sizeable population of Yi people (it's the capital of the Yi Liangshan...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Say "Jibna" (Cheese)!

    • Say "Jibna" (Cheese)!

    • Animals; Elders; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken in March of 2011 in a rural village in Morocco. In the photo are two fellow Volunteers who had come to visit my site for my birthday. As we were walking around my village, the Sheikh (center) invited us all in for tea, as he...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rosing Dela Santos

    • Rosing Dela Santos

    • elders; host families

    • This is a photo of my host Nanay (Mom), Rosing Dela Santos of Manghan-Vaca, Subic, Luzon, The Philippines. A Sunday morning shortly after I had gotten to her home, she took me "shopping", that is gathering food from a nearby field. At one point,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Returning Home

    • Returning Home

    • transportation; Elders

    • For Slovaks that live in the country, wood is essential for heating and cooking. So, a day cutting wood was accomplished by these men, and we met them on their way home. Obviously, a horse drawn wagon uses the same roads as automobiles and trucks...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Profile of María

    • Profile of María

    • Elders

    • This photograph was shot in Honduras during a nutrition and healthy cooking class for mothers in June of 2011. María is a Lenca women, one of the indigenous populations of Honduras famous for their brightly colored pañuelos (head scarves)....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Playing away the Winter Blues

    • Playing away the Winter Blues

    • music; elders

    • This picture was taken in Yambol, Bulgaria, in the winter of 2009. One of our two city accordionists (the less crazy one) was doing his thing on my morning walk to school, right in front of our 15th century ottoman mosque. Needless to say, it was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Plastering Mole Pots

    • Plastering Mole Pots

    • food and meals; elders

    • Mole is a traditional Mexican sauce made from 20-30 ingredients, including chili and other peppers, nuts, seeds, fruits, spices, herbs, and various other items (often chocolate, tomatoes, etc). The recipe and process used by the woman in this...
    • Volunteer Photos

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