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    • 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,...
    • Air Guitar Girls!

    • Air Guitar Girls!

    • Host community friends

    • This photo was taken in my first village, a small Bulgarian Muslim community in northeastern Bulgaria. I was playing in my yard one day with three of my girls, and we just enjoyed one another's company through games, eating apples, and air...
    • Track Suit

    • Track Suit

    • host community friends

    • One day I went onto my back balcony and saw a gentleman who lives in my apartment building chopping wood for his family. I took the photo in the fall of 2010, in the center of our town, Etropole. I was particularly struck by his track suit (which...
    • Katya and Katya ~ my Katyas!

    • Katya and Katya ~ my Katyas!

    • host community friends

    • This photo was taken in my second site, a small town to the east of Sofia, Bulgaria. My mother and two of my best friends from the U.S. came to visit during the summer of 2011, when this image was taken. My best American friend, Katya, is...
    • Celebration!

    • Celebration!

    • Host community friends; Food and meals; Celebrations

    • This photograph was taken in November of 2009, in my first village, a small Bulgarian Muslim community in northeastern Bulgaria. Kurban Bairam is one of the greatest holidays of the year in the Muslim community, and as I was learning about their...
    • Teamwork on the mural!

    • Teamwork on the mural!

    • Host community; Art

    • This photo was taken in the fall of 2009, soon after I arrived in my first village of in northeastern Bulgaria. We painted a mural together that featured the Bulgarian and American flags, different kinds of people, peace doves, and beautiful...
    • Learning Lutenitsa

    • Learning Lutenitsa

    • Host community; Food and meals; Cooking

    • This photo was taken in the fall of 2009, soon after I arrived in my first site a small village in northeastern Bulgaria. Here I am pictured with my friend Hatijay, an older member of a tiny Bulgarian Muslim community. She and my other colleagues...
    • Na Gosti in the Country!

    • Na Gosti in the Country!

    • Host families

    • This photo is of my mother and a friend in a village near my town. My Mom came to visit in June of 2011, and I can't express in words how excited I was to see her, to show her this amazing country, and to introduce her to my amazing colleagues,...
    • Show and Tell!

    • Show and Tell!

    • Schools; Education; Children; Host community

    • This photo was taken in my second site, the town of Etropole, in the spring of 2011. It was taken at school with my eighth grade class, when I was learning more about how to interest the students in English lessons by incorporating their personal...
    • Guests in class!

    • Guests in class!

    • Schools; Education; Children; Host community

    • This photo was taken in the summer of 2011, when my mother (pictured on the left), and my friend Katya and her husband Patrick (pictured on the right) came to visit me in my second site, a municipality located in the Old Mountains, just to the east...
    • Circle Frame

    • Circle Frame

    • Training sites; Environment

    • This photograph was taken during our Initial Orientation, in May 2009, immediately after we arrived in country. One of my best friends, Kay, is holding the stick frame and featuring the other volunteers as we all prepared for a hike up the...

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