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    • Camel Caravan to Chinguetti

    • Camel Caravan to Chinguetti

    • Transportation; Host community friends; Terrain; Animals;

    • This photo was taken during a camel caravan that I was on, along with a group of teachers working in Nouadhibou, Mauritania. The trip was by train, taxi and truck, and finally by camel from Nouadhibou to Chinguetti and back.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Getting Off On the Right Foot

    • Getting Off On the Right Foot

    • Dance; Host families; Celebrations

    • In this picture I am dancing the Macedonian traditional dance, the Oro, for the first time with my host father. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but thankfully he was able to tell me the dance steps. Too bad I didnt understand enough...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trick or Treat!

    • Trick or Treat!

    • Celebrations

    • About mid-way through pre-service training was Halloween. A lot of people in our group really loved the holiday, and we knew we wanted to celebrate it with Macedonians in country. We decided to each go as a US holiday, including: Valentines Day,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Pumpkin

    • First Pumpkin

    • Celebrations; Children

    • Host kids Hadiza, Kader, Balki, and Rakia help Volunteer Laura Ballard carve a pumkin to celebrate Halloween. Zinder, Niger. October 29th, 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Photo Class

    • Photo Class

    • Teachers and students

    • Volunteer Marisa helps students in her photography club critique their photos from the previous week's assignment. Community Youth Center, Zinder, Niger. January 8, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • These students planned and hosted GuiYang Medical University's 3rd Annual Prom, "An Evening in Paris." The evening included American dances like the YMCA and country line dance, crowning of prom king and queen, and a performance by A Cappella group...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Story Telling

    • Story Telling

    • Camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Volunteers Marisa and Ashley pass some free time telling stories to their Young Girls' Empowerment Camp participants. Zinder, Niger. 3/24/2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Map

    • Community Map

    • World map project; Counterparts

    • Community and municipal development Volunteer Sean stands together with his counterparts at the unveiling of their new commune map. Sean and his counterparts worked togehter to fund and paint this map that is displayed at the mayor's office....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "I've Never"

    • "I've Never"

    • Games; Teachers and students

    • April 2011, GuiYang, GuiZhou, China Peace Corps Response Volunteer Laura Ballard plays "I've Never" with her freshman English class.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Host community friends; games

    • Yuan Xiao Lu, a graduate student at the univeristy where I served teaching English, became one of my favorite Scrabble buddies. April 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saddling Up for a Camel Caravan

    • Saddling Up for a Camel Caravan

    • Transportation; Host community friends; Terrain; Animals

    • Here I am (left) saddling up for a camel caravan that I took with teacher colleague friends. The trip was from Nouadhibou where we lived and worked to Chinguetti, in the desert of Mauritania. We are at this point just outside of Atar, getting ready...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rhythm

    • Rhythm

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Kathryn and Francisco Fernandez are Volunteers in Belmopan, Belize. This photo was taken at in Bermudan Landing at a baboon sanctuary during our first week in country as Trainees. Teaching us to hull rice, among other traditional practices, was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kakheti Farmer

    • Kakheti Farmer

    • Terrain; Transportation

    • Visiting Peace Corps Volunteers in the east of Georgia, I took this picture on a lush, slightly cloudy spring afternoon. A farmer was driving his horse and wagon home through the low hills of the Caucasus.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Pig

    • Preparing the Pig

    • Host families; Food and meals

    • In December, my host family fattened and then slaughtered a pig for the Orthodox Christmas and New Year's holidays. This is my host brother pouring boiling water over the pig's head in the back yard. He later roasted some of the pork meat.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Breaking Bread

    • Breaking Bread

    • Weddings; Celebrations

    • A traditional part of a Macedonian wedding ceremony involves breaking a "bread of health" over the bride's head. They hold a cloth in between the bride's head and the bread so that no bread ends up in her hair! My girlfriends, both Macedonian and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding Convoy

    • Wedding Convoy

    • Weddings

    • A traditional Macedonian wedding takes place in several different places, so its necessary to have transportation between the locations. Often times, the leading car which usually holds the wedding party, will fly the national flag out the window....
    • Volunteer Photos

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