Food and meals; Agriculture; Pre-service training (PST)
Two Volunteers take part in a training session at local rice paddies in Tlekung, Indonesia (Java Timur). They beat the rice plants to remove kernels, which are later dried to allow removal of actual rice.
Africa
Swaziland Group 8 (PST)
Pictured is Fred and Krista
July 2010
Swaziland Cultural Center
This photo was taken during PST. At the time we were only in Swaziland for less then a month, this was the first trip away from our training site and...
Barb gets her hair trimmed to a buzz one night in February 2011 in South Africa. Shavings became a nightly ritual for trainees during the first week in-country. In the background, from left to right, are Lanna, Stephanie Martone, and Shaelyn.
This photo was taken at the pre-service training (PST) site in Doe Palace (Liberia). This a group photo of LR-2 and the SSC. We were trainees at that time.
I took this photo during Pre Service Training for the 1st group back to Rwanda in 15 years. We had communal training, which, while difficult at times, did allow us to form close bonds with fellow volunteers and HCN trainers.
We had a break between...
This photo was taken on April 19, 2010 at SMAN 2 Batu High School in East Java, Indonesia. I took this picture of my friends Travis and Giovanna during our Pre-Service Training teaching practicum. The students really enjoyed their English lesson...
Animals; Transportation; Pre-service Training (PST)
I took this photo during pre-service training riding on the highway with my Bulgarian host grandparents. The horses name is Maya and my host brother nicknamed her "Rolls Royce Maya" that day.
This was taken in the May of 2010 in a Ukrainian village. This lake meant a lot to me. After the intense daily routine of PST, it was very relaxing to walk past this lake on the way back home everyday.
host community friends; children; Pre-service Training (PST)
It doesn't matter what county you live in: saying goodbye is always hard to do. After arriving in our training villages with hardly being able to muster "buna ziua" (hello) in Romanian, after two months it was difficult not to have bonded with our...
This photo was taken in Armenia during pre-service training, during the summer of 2011. It is 6 of the Volunteers in the training village, walking home together after a long day at school, learning Armenian.
Pre-service Training (PST); host community friends
This was taking during pre-service training in Armenia during our community project. With the help of many members of the community, over several days we painted the fence around the War Memorial in our village. There are Volunteers and community...
This photo was taken on November 20, 2010, halfway through the training of the 23rd group of Volunteers to serve in Burkina Faso. It shows a group of small enterprise development Volunteers learning to make liquid soap from components, a skill...
This was taken on Lake Iteshi-teshi during in-service training for the Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project, Peace Corps, Zambia, April 2000. All of these volunteers were dedicated to improving the food security of Zambians by teaching them how to...