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...
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...
A Russian tradition! This photo was taken on the Ishim River in Petropavlosk, Kazakhstan. It is a tradition that the lake be blessed in January and traditional dunks are taken. Here is Volunteer Nick Huber dunking three times to stay healthy all...
Kreshenye, a Russian Orthodox holiday, is celebrated on the 19th of January in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan by dipping three times in the frozen river Ishim, which is blessed for the occasion. Young and old take part every year, despite the...
This photo was taken in Kazakhstan on May 20, 2011. The little boy is the youngest son of a family I am close to here. Even though he was the smallest of our explorers on this mountain picnic, he was always at least 50 meters ahead of us, scoping...
In this photo, Volunteer Erin assists students in making piñatas at an English immersion summer camp in South Kazakhstan. In connection with this project students learned about Mexican culture and it's presence in the United States.
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.
My PST host mom and me in our outdoor kitchen during the summer. Leaving everything I know to come to a country that I had barely heard of was quite possibly one of the most difficult things I’ve ever decided to do. Life was full of craziness as...
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...