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    • Beautiful Kazakh Hats

    • Beautiful Kazakh Hats

    • Traditional dress

    • Kazakhstan has many beautiful things. One that stands out in particular are the costumes that are traditionally worn. Here is a picture of Kazakhstani National Hats that are traditionally worn while girls are dancing. They're beautifully...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace

    • Peace

    • traditional dress; celebrations; youth

    • It was a warm day in Kazakhstan, marking the end of a long, cold winter and the beginning of a much needed spring. The thirteen of us had been in our training village for only eleven days when we were summoned from our language classes to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer Work

    • Volunteer Work

    • Volunteerism; Teachers and students

    • Introducing volunteer work to my students is one of the best ways to exchange culture. My students traveled 14 hours to volunteer at two Halloween parties I hosted for my new students. It was such an awesome act of volunteerism!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Moroz, Yavlenka, Kazakhstan

    • The Moroz, Yavlenka, Kazakhstan

    • Weather

    • I took this picture in January 2008 in Kazakhstan. The Moroz (Frost) in Kazakhstan could get down to deathly temperatures, but at the same time it could be one of the most amazing and beautiful scenery to encounter. When the Moroz would set in on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Relay for Clothes

    • Relay for Clothes

    • youth; education

    • At an English camp in Kazakhstan during the summer of 2011, a group of six Volunteers were teaching students the very basics of the English language. During one of the days, we taught the students different articles of clothing. One of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bingo!

    • Bingo!

    • youth; education

    • My students loved to play bingo as a review activity during English lessons. Here, third grader Nursultanbek chooses and reads a letter of the alphabet while the rest of the students find it on their bingo cards. May 2011, Saumalkol Kazakh...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Karaganda Wedding Party

    • Karaganda Wedding Party

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends

    • I was honored when my friend Lyuba asked me to be the maid of honor at her wedding in October, 1994. This photo shows the newlyweds in the center with the best man on the left and me on the right.
    • 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
    • A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe

    • A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends

    • Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Food and meals; Host families

    • 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,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing for Winter

    • Preparing for Winter

    • Food and meals; Host families

    • This photo was taken on November 24, 2007, during my second week at my permanent site in Aksukent, Kazakhstan. My host mother and host sisters worked all day to chop cabbage and carrots into this huge pile. They then added salt and pepper and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Street Hockey in the Snow

    • Street Hockey in the Snow

    • Sports; Games; Weather; Housing

    • This photo shows the view from my apartment in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Winters are long, cold and snowy there but kids enjoy playing hockey in the courtyard no matter what the weather is like.
    • Volunteer Photos

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