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    • Bringing cheerleading to Romania

    • Bringing cheerleading to Romania
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    • In April 2008, the Balan Peace Corps Volunteers organized a giant cheerleading session for English Friendship Club. The 30 middle schoolers had matching T-Shirts with the club logo, a gift from our families in America, and we made pompoms to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Romania Journalism Camp

    • Romania Journalism Camp
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    • In August 2007, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers across Romania converged on Sovata, Ro., in Transylvania for a week-long journalism camp. Here Volunteer Matt Zdon helps students prepare articles for the camp newspaper.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Somlyo

    • Somlyo
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    • As a Peace Corps volunteer, I took part in the annual Somlyo pilgrimage. "Ave Maria" echoed through the high mountain valley as it has every Pentecost for 440 years. Horsemen in wool Hussars uniforms, cardinals in jewel-tone robes and peasant...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Romanian Hula

    • Romanian Hula
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    • The four Peace Corps volunteers in my little Romanian mountain town of Balan teamed up for a middle school English club, "English Friendship Club," as named by the students. We hosted weekly meetings and a once-a-month themed party. In February,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kristen & Ionutz

    • Kristen & Ionutz
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    • Balan, Romania: At a ceremony for the dead in the spring of 2008, one of my preschoolers came up to me to show off his English. He was a stellar student, besides being sweet and one of the very few preschoolers who could answer "How are you" with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saying Goodbye

    • Saying Goodbye
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    • Peace Corps volunteer Ferris Badge and I took on an additional project of teaching preschool. My primary assignment was in the high school, and Ferris worked with an eco-club. With our most advanced class, we ended every session singing the Barney...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kristen & Maricica

    • Kristen & Maricica
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    • This was near Balan, Romania. My host mother was dropping me off in the county seat so I could catch a train to the capital at the end of my service. She gave me about 200 kisses as she cried and said goodbye. She was a woman with great love in her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dr. Seuss in Transylvania

    • Dr. Seuss in Transylvania
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    • Bianca, an 11th grader, helps fifth graders sound out words in a Dr. Seuss book as part of a project aiming to promote English and reading. The books were donated by friends in the United States. The 5th graders loved the attention from high...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Romania Wedding

    • A Romania Wedding
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    • My counterpart married in February 2008. After the civil ceremony in town hall, the procession moved to the Orthodox church - unheated in the chilly Transylvanian winter. Then came a 200-person party that lasted until sunrise.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lunch Break

    • Lunch Break
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    • This was taken when my Director of the EE sector came for our first meeting to do a needs assesment for a surrounding five villages and the local French school and all its teachers. The women in my village, Daru Thiouben, cooked lunch and carried...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Life on the Demerara

    • Life on the Demerara
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    • This photo was taken up the Demerara River in Guyana, South America. My counterpart, the clinic staff and myself would make twice monthly trips to service the rivering communities. This is one of the houses/docks we stopped at and captured this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Getting the Word Out

    • Getting the Word Out
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    • This was taken in Linden, Guyana, South America. It was part of a PEPFAR grant I was able to garnish alongside two other Volunteers. We did a puppet show campaign targeting primary and secondary schools with the message about HIV/AIDS...with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hiking Out of My Site

    • Hiking Out of My Site
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    • This photo was taken at the end of November 2010 in the outskirts of my site in Namibia. My hiking pack is resting against the sign on the B3. It was a beautiful and very hot, dry, dusty day. You can see the lack of vegetation in the southern edges...
    • Volunteer Photos

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