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    • Saemaeul Picnic

    • Saemaeul Picnic

    • Food and meals

    • This photo was taken in Tongyeong County in the spring of 1976. Government workers were encouraged to spend a day planting rice as part of the "New Village Movement" or Saemaeul. The program was designed to boost the economic developement of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mr. Joe

    • Mr. Joe

    • Food and meals

    • After planting rice at the annual Saemaul Volunteer Day, there was a picnic. This is a photo of Mr. Joe, my counterpart at the county health center in Tongyeong County, spring 1976. Makali was drunk out of a bowl, which when emptied was passed to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bap Chip

    • The Bap Chip

    • Host community friends; food and meals

    • This picture was taken in Chung Mu City in July 1976. This is the "boarding house" house restaurant where the city and county workers who were living away from home came for their meals. It was run by a woman, her mother, three daughters and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cooking Fish

    • Cooking Fish

    • Cooking

    • This is a photo taken in Chung Mu City at the boarding house restaurant where I ate. This is the grandmother cooking fish over a fire of pressed coal (yan tan). As an american, I was provided a fried egg with my rice, vegetables, fish, and soup...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laundry

    • Laundry

    • Host families; Clothing

    • This photo was taken of the grandmother who owned the house were I lived. Laundry was done by boiling the whites with lye soap and beating them on the rock at the cistern. If the grandmother and her friends were home when I was doing my laundry,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Kimchi

    • Making Kimchi

    • Cooking; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken in the boarding house restaurant where I took my meals with the other county and city workers who were living away from home in Chung Mu City. The restaurant was run by a woman, her mother, two daughters and young son. They...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dressed Up for a Wedding

    • Dressed Up for a Wedding

    • Weddings; Host families

    • I took this picture of my homologue and her sisters during the youngest sisters wedding. This was in my first 3 months at site and it was amazing to meet and feel so accepted bu all of her family. In Mali weddings are a very big especially for the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Host Mother

    • My Host Mother

    • Host families

    • This is a picture of me and my host mother and was taken around February 2007 in Alarobia, Madagascar. About half way through my Peace Corps service I went back to my pre-service training site to visit my host-stay family. We are standing outside...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stuck in the Mud

    • Stuck in the Mud

    • Transportation; Terrain

    • This picture was taken toward the end of 2006 outside of my village of Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar. My village was mostly a "hike site", meaning that the only way to get in was to hike 7 miles up and over a mountain (about a 2 hour strenous...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Happy Father's Day!

    • Happy Father's Day!

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken at the Swearing In Ceremony for the Community Health and Agroforestry PC Cameroon Stages December 2009. Swearing in is the culmination of three months of hard work both on the part of the Peace Corps trainee and their host...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Handwashing Lesson

    • Handwashing Lesson

    • Water and sanitation; Teachers and students; Children; Youth; Schools

    • This photo was taken during a handwashing lesson that was given during National Handwashing Day in Morocco. This photo shows me helping a student wash his hands while the other students watched a movie in their local language on the importance of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Madagascar's Hauts Plateaux

    • Madagascar's Hauts Plateaux

    • Terrain

    • This picture was taken toward the end of 2006 and is a picture of Madagascar's Hauts Plateaux, or highlands. The picture was taken near Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar and depicts the tiered rice fields that the Malagasy build into the mountains.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Malagasy School Children

    • Malagasy School Children

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This picture was taken towards the end of 2006 and depicts some Malagasy school children in Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar. They are lining up after recess, and before classes begin again.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Homemade Flags for the World Cup

    • Homemade Flags for the World Cup

    • Sports; Celebrations; Youth; Children; World Map Project

    • I took this photo before the first game of the World Cup 2010 in my site in the mountains of Panama. These are children of an indigenous group and have no electricity to watch the games. Therefore, we listen to all the games on my radio. Here they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fresh Coconuts!

    • Fresh Coconuts!

    • Children; Environment; Food and meals; Agriculture

    • A child from my village would climb the coconut tree in my back yard and get coconuts - one for me and the others to sell.
    • Volunteer Photos

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