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- WWII Memorial
- WWII Memorial in Samaulkol, North Kazakhstan Oblast. Nearly every family in the village sent someone to the front. Half of them did not return.
- Volunteer Photos
- Working with Presidential School English Teachers
- This is a photo of me with English teachers at the Nazarbayev Intellectual School in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan.
- Volunteer Photos
- Wishing Tree
- Kazakhs traditionally tie strips of cloth to trees at special places, such as the top of a mountain or near a stream, and make a wish. Photo taken near Ayrtau lake, Northern Kazakhstan in July 2010.
- Volunteer Photos
- Winter Afternoon
- This picture was taken in Samaulkol, North Kazakshtan Oblast. February 2008
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteer Work
- 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
- Trainees in Kazakhstan
- During PST Training, trainees went on a field trip to Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Here are a few trainees, now PCVs, at the train station in Karaganda.
- Volunteer Photos
- Traditional Kazakh Dance
- Russian School in Shortandy, Kazakhstan, April 2008
- Volunteer Photos
- Toilet
- Toilets! Often families here have a winter and a summer bathroom. The summer bathroom is often an outhouse. Here is the outhouse of a friend.
- Volunteer Photos
- Third Graders at School
- A group of bright 3rd graders at a school in Samaulkol, a province in North Kazakhstan. October 2009.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Moroz, Yavlenka, Kazakhstan
- 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
- The Cutest Boy You'll Ever Meet in Kazakhstan
- During a week of Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan we met a lot of cute and interesting kids since there was a simultaneous camp along side ours. Here is one of the cutest boys you'll ever meet. His smile was to die for.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Best Counterpart in Peace Corps History
- It's not everyday you come across a counterpart that you can call family. My counterpart is exactly that. She's not quite a Mom, not quite a sister, but she's surely someone that I'll never forget. She's family. Her name is Gulnaz and she is...
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan
- This photo was taken in November 2009 shortly after I arrived at my site in Kazakhstan. This was one of the first English Clubs I held in the local Kazakh school. The photo shows myself and the children, and their completed Thanksgiving turkeys...
- Volunteer Photos
- Teachers at the Presidential School
- Myself and the two new foreign teachers were introducing ourselves to the school faculty and to the Minister of Education and the Chairman of all Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tea and Stories
- 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
- Students in the Ice City
- 4th graders near an ice replica of "baiterek". Samaulkol, North Kazakhstan Oblast, December 2008
- Volunteer Photos
- Street Hockey in the Snow
- 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
- Singing on the 4th of July
- This photo was taken at a 4th of July party in Kazakhstan. Married Peace Corps Volunteers, Melissa and Matt belted their hearts out to adoring fans singing traditional American songs.
- Volunteer Photos
- Singing in a yurt
- Miras, a 6th grader at Saumalkol Kazakh Secondary School in northern Kazakhstan, performs a song during a Nauryz celebration on March 22, 2011. Nauryz is the Kazakh New Year and is celebrated across the country with traditional activities like...
- Volunteer Photos
- Ship Graveyard, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan
- Very few volunteers in Kazakhstan ventured out to the remote and distant Aral Sea but 3 of my friends and I took the journey in March 2009. Not much is left of what used to be one of the largest inland seas in the world. The trip to what is left...
- Volunteer Photos