This photo was taken in August of 2010 in the community of Tomas in the Peruvian Andes. Through my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I befriended a local family who regularly invited me to share meals with them and partake in family gatherings with...
This photo was taken in July 2010 at the annual Nor Yauyos Agricultural Fair in the Peruvian Andes. As part of the fair, several towns in the region presented exhibitions of all the varieties of potatoes that they grow; while in America we might...
This photo was taken in April 2010 in a community in the Andes mountains of Peru. Although they do not celebrate Easter there, I wanted to share something I had enjoyed as a child--dying Easter eggs--with the kids at my local elementary school....
This photo was taken in April of 2011 with the youngest kids from my local elementary school during an Easter egg hunt. In my community, high in the Andes mountains of Peru, Easter is not really celebrated, but, in an effort to get to know the...
This photo was taken in July 2010 at the annual Nor Yauyos Agricultural Fair in Peru. As part of the fair, local high school students dressed in traditional clothing and presented traditional foods that they had prepared as part of a cooking...