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    • Creative Kids

    • Creative Kids

    • Children

    • I took this picture in Moldova on 6/20/2010. The picture was taken in front of the high school in where kids and teenagers like to hang out and play. The kids on this picture are being creative, showing how funny and interesting they are.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing to Happiness

    • Dancing to Happiness

    • Host families; dance

    • Dancing and sunny Sunday summer afternoons by the river are common pastimes in Moldova. In this photo, two of my host relatives are enjoying dancing to traditional music outside... because dancing is what brings them happiness.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dinner

    • Dinner

    • animals; host community friends; food and meals

    • Easter is the biggest holiday in Moldova and everyone comes back home to the villages, so they slaughter a pig to have meat for the week-long celebrations. Here are my neighbors, preparing their pig for it's last moments. Moldova, April 2011
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Don't Pull Too Hard

    • Don't Pull Too Hard

    • Animals; Host families

    • I took this photo of my host father skinning a rabbit in our yard in Moldova. My little brother was visiting from the U.S., so my host family made sure to give him the grand experience of Moldova! My brother and I observed as my host father killed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Easter Celebration

    • Easter Celebration

    • Host families; Celebrations

    • Easter celebration in Republica Moldova with my host family-- Luiba, her two sons Nicoli,Dema and grand daughter Luiba and grand son Demetra and great grand daughter Lubas. She is standing next to me and her eldest son Dema. They are a wonderful...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Free Hugs for Us Too

    • Free Hugs for Us Too

    • Youth

    • Most of the work in my village was centered with the local youth council. One day a year, on international youth day, they sponsored a village-wide "Free Hugs" event. This is some of the youth council members, with myself and my partner,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fresh Cucumbers

    • Fresh Cucumbers

    • Agriculture; Host community; Food and meals

    • I took this photo in August, 2011, in Moldova, at my Romanian tutor's home. My tutor, her husband (pictured), and I spent the day in the garden collecting fresh fruits and veggies to prepare for an afternoon feast that we would all help prepare....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friends

    • Friends

    • host community friends

    • Friends. They translate into any language and any culture. And no matter where you are in the world, you have them. They may not be the same friends you had when you were 6 or 16, but they are there for you. Always. This photograph was taken...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friends

    • Friends

    • host community friends

    • I asked him what happiness means to him and he said, "Happiness is having an American take a picture of my friend and sharing it with all of her friends with the Internet." Moldova, August 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gagauzian Painted House

    • Gagauzian Painted House

    • Housing; Architecture

    • This photo was taken in August 2009 in Comrat, the capital of Moldova's semi-autonomous region of Gagauzia. Moldovan villages are full of similarly brightly painted houses. Given the harsh winters that Moldova is known for, some Moldovans use...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hai la masa!

    • Hai la masa!

    • Food and meals; Host families

    • This is a photo of the lunch my host mother prepared for me in Moldova. I was the only one eating. Moldovans love to share food and homemade wine and they expect you to eat EVERYTHING. The food is delicious and my waistline is expanding. Many great...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Halloween

    • Halloween

    • Celebrations; children

    • Halloween was my mom's favorite holiday so I thought it would be fun to share her love of the holiday with my Moldovan students, who had never celebrated Halloween before. We had mummy wrapping contests, and this is the winning team! Moldova,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hello Miss Cate!

    • Hello Miss Cate!

    • host community friends

    • This is my neighbor, SaČ™a. He always seems to be coming back from some errand on his horse drawn wagon just as I am heading to school in the morning and he never fails to say, "Hello Miss Cate!" with a smile, like this one, across his face.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Help

    • Help

    • elders; food and meals

    • I live in a small village where everyone says they know everyone else, but the truth is at one point in time that may have been true, but now, as time is passing and people are getting older, they don't really know everyone anymore. Except Vasile....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Her Whole Life is in That Room

    • Her Whole Life is in That Room

    • death; funerals

    • When I put this photo up on facebook to get help in choosing which photos to submit to this contest, someone wrote a comment on this one saying "her whole life is in that room." And while the woman in the corner is not the wife of the man who has...
    • Volunteer Photos

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