This picture was taken when I was sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolgatanga, Ghana in 2002. My Ghanian mother (pictured) spent hours making this dress and told me we had to dress the same as we're family and it's what you do. I had never...
This was taken at the annual Feok Festival in Sandema, UER, Ghana - 2002. It is the harvest celebration and also the celebration of the Builsa people fighting off the slave raider Babatu. The Builsas are a proud people as you can see from the...
I took this photo at Special Olympics, Albania 2010, in Tirana. 15 Volunteers volunteered at the Special Olympics event sponsored by Vodafone Albania. Pictured is a young boy from team Vlora (town in Southern Albania) before the opening ceremony.
This impressive spread was for the birthday party of a 12-year-old girl in Kutaisi, Georgia. Georgian feasts, or supras, are not rare, though this table is especially elaborate. It's important to note that only half of the dishes are on the table...
A volunteer (Seth, on the right) and a salesman peruse the selection of Soviet medals and memorabilia. Many Georgians sell their USSR wares on the sidewalks of Tbilisi, and renditions of Stalin abound-- naturally, since he was Georgian.