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    • 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
    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Celebrations; Games

    • Kazakh horsemen participate in a game of Kokpar during the Nauryz celebration to mark the beginning of Spring. Two teams attempt to take possession of a headless goat carcass and drop it in a goal on their side of the field. The field was muddy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations; Dance

    • My students (all future English teachers) at the Humanitarian Pedagogical College dance an Irish jig. Our celebration included a play, skits, songs, trivia, and this dance. My students loved to dance, but I am not a dance instructor and the only...
    • 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
    • Kok Par

    • Kok Par

    • Games; Celebrations; Host community

    • 2007 Nauruz Festival at the hippodrome in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. The photo was taken by me as I walked to the edge of the field to snap a picture of the kok par players struggling to score a point. Kok par is a game where two teams on horseback use...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Horses graze on new spring grass

    • Horses graze on new spring grass

    • Animals; Environment; Wildlife

    • I took this photo at Sayram-Ugam National Park in Kazakhstan in March 2010. The Kazakh people are traditionally good horsemen who, even in the modern world, continue to have a close connection to their animals.
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    • Fourth Grade Graduation

    • Fourth Grade Graduation

    • Children; Host community; Traditional dress

    • Even though students study at the same school from first to eleventh grade, Kazakhstani schools still hold a graduation ceremony for the fourth graders when they graduate from the beginning classes. The ceremony often includes a dance for all the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Praying at the mausoleum

    • Praying at the mausoleum

    • religion

    • I took this photo in March 2010 at the Ahmed Yassaui mausoleum in Turkistan, Kazakhstan. These people are praying while holding their hands in a traditional gesture. When they finish their prayer, they will sweep their hands in front of their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Singing in a yurt

    • Singing in a yurt

    • music; celebrations; traditional dress

    • 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
    • Reading in English

    • Reading in English

    • schools; children

    • Fourth graders Almas and Alisher practice their English reading skills with PC volunteer Anna Rodgers. This photo was taken in April 2011 at Saumalkol Kazakh Secondary School in northern Kazakhstan.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Milking a camel

    • Milking a camel

    • animals; host community friends; agriculture

    • Shubat is a traditional Kazakh drink made from fermented camel's milk. This woman owns a herd of camels in Ayrtau, Northern Kazakhstan and milks them twice a day. Photo taken June 2011.
    • 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
    • Wishing Tree

    • Wishing Tree

    • folklore

    • 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
    • Photography Class

    • Photography Class

    • Teachers and students; Camps and clubs

    • June 11, 2009, Algha, Kazakhstan. This was taken during a two week long "Friendship Bridge" summer camp organized by another volunteer. The camp included ten volunteers, ten local teachers, and one hundred 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students. In...
    • 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
    • Ship Graveyard, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan

    • Ship Graveyard, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan

    • Environment; Volunteers; Climate change

    • 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
    • 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
    • Host Mom and Me during the Holiday Season

    • Host Mom and Me during the Holiday Season

    • Host families

    • The holiday season was the most difficult time for me to be away from family and friends. My host mom made sure that I was well taken care of. She wanted me to have a good time and we celebrated the New Year in the same way that they had in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Toilet

    • Toilet

    • Housing

    • 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

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