My students (all future English teachers) at the Humanitarian Pedagogical College dance an Irish jig. Our celebration included a play, skits, songs, trivia, and this dance. My students loved to dance, but I am not a dance instructor and the only...
This photo shows my Uzbek host family, with whom I lived for all of my two years at site. In parts of Southern Kazakhstan there are many Uzbeks, who lived there long before the Soviets drew the current borders. From left to right: me, host mom,...
June 11, 2009, Algha, Kazakhstan. This was taken during a two week long "Friendship Bridge" summer camp organized by another volunteer. The camp included ten volunteers, ten local teachers, and one hundred 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students. In...
Taken during the retrofitting of all windows with mosquito netting at a secondary school in Mozambique. The goal of the project was to retrofit all windows with new mosquito netting and plant lemon grass plants outside of the classroom to deter...
The photo was taken at the completion of the mosquito netting project in Mozambique. The goal of the project was to prevent malaria by putting up new mosquito netting in all windows and plant lemon grass outside of the classrooms to deter...