After a long day of language classes during pre-service training in Senegal, Volunteer Melanie Chamberlain finds a quiet corner in her family compound to sit and listen to music with one of her young host brothers. The pair sat and listened to...
My time as a Peace Corps Volunteer was spent on a very tiny, very remote island in the South Pacific, in Tonga. The island, Ha'afeva, is about a mile and a half long, and one mile wide. Because it's so small and so remote, most of the food on the...
This photo is from the late 1970's in the Kasai Occidental region of DR Congo (then known as Zaire). I'm behind the wheel and fellow Volunteer is helping line up the planks. We were both Peace Corps Regional Representatives which was a 3rd year...