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    • Aregua 2 Training Class, Paraguay

    • Aregua 2 Training Class, Paraguay

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Our training group had just arrived in country in June, 1989, and our first stop was Ykua Sati, a retreat center just outside of Asuncion, where we spent a few nights for orientation, language testing and lots of shots by the Peace Corps Medical...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Despedida at Site

    • Despedida at Site

    • Celebrations; Food and meals

    • In December, 1991 as I was finishing up my time with Peace Corps my friends in my community (San Miguel, Pastoreo) did a really nice farewell. After feasting on pollo asado, sopa paraguaya, and Coke mixed with beer (yum), there was music and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Mom, My Moto, and Me

    • Host Mom, My Moto, and Me

    • Transportation; Host families

    • I remember the excitement when I learned that I was going to get a motorcycle to help me do my extension work. Peace Corps provided us with one week of training with a US certified motorcycle instructor, and a shiny red Suzuki 100 dirt bike. Here...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Pellets for the Slingshot

    • Making Pellets for the Slingshot

    • Games; Children; Host families

    • It always amazed me how good the kids were at entertaining themselves with what seemed like nothing, for hours on end. In this photo from 1991, my host brother Victor is making clay pellets with his cousin. They would scoop up clay soil,...
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    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Maternal and child health

    • This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Myra Carrying Funeral Feast Leftovers

    • Myra Carrying Funeral Feast Leftovers

    • Funerals; Food and meals

    • After attending a funeral feast during the Month of Flies, my "sister" Myra carried my share of the leftovers home. She carried my food in a coconut fond basket that was made on-the-spot. Myra is the oldest daughter of the couple whose home I...
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    • Two Old Ladies

    • Two Old Ladies

    • Elders; Children

    • I served as town photographer while teaching secondary school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. This sitting was of an older woman and her grand daughter who were both called "Old Lady." Out of respect for her age, the woman was Old...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Liberian Folklore

    • Liberian Folklore

    • Children

    • These children are half siblings of my next door neighbors where I taught school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. At the time, they were both too young to have names, so they were known as "Little Old Lady" and "Little Old Man." ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • APCD Antonio Dacak Playing Guitar

    • APCD Antonio Dacak Playing Guitar

    • Music

    • In 1990 we had a combined Agriculture and Beekeeping In-service Training. After spending hours and hours learning about green manure and water filtration ditches, all in Spanish, highly technical and delivered by the Dean of the Agricultural...
    • Volunteer Photos

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