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    • Buckets of Fun

    • Buckets of Fun

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Getting Our Hands Dirty

    • Getting Our Hands Dirty

    • Pre-service training (PST); Agriculture

    • This was taken at a "Sufficiency Economy" visited during Peace Corps training in Ayutthaya, Thailand in March, 2011. These trainees were practicing building a hut out of mud bricks. Sufficiency Economy was an idea created by the King after the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Let the Creative Juices Flow

    • Let the Creative Juices Flow

    • Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers; Art; Education

    • In an effort to nurture creativity, the training staff engaged the Volunteers in a group mural painting exercise. We all made contributions and learned collective creative thinking. But it didn't do much for our painting skills.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Slovak Version of a Political Rally

    • A Slovak Version of a Political Rally

    • Volunteers; Host families; Pre-service training (PST)

    • During our training our host mother asked us to go with here into nature (hike) into the hills surrounding the village of Modra. We didn't know at the time that is was a political rally for a political party, of which there were many. We were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Misto!

    • Misto!

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • This was the last moment of our PST training in Targoviste, Romania and we are so very cool as we look ahead toward our service in Romania as new Peace Corps Volunteers. Here we are one hour before swearing-in!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Waiting Room

    • The Waiting Room

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Celebrations

    • This is a photo taken on April 4, 2007, the day our group of Peace Corps trainees became the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Cambodia. We were placed in the backroom of a hall on the campus of the National Institute of Education...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Agriculture; Pre-service training (PST)

    • This is what I viewed while on my bike riding home from another Volunteer’s house during pre-service training (PST). People would sleep in this house during short grain rice season to protect their fields from whomever or whatever would damage...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A New Soccer "Field"

    • A New Soccer "Field"

    • Host community; Pre-service Training (PST); Children

    • Alex, a fellow Volunteer, is helping the kids from the local orphange at our training site sweep the debris off the asphalt so they can create a space to play soccer. They prefer playing soccer on asphalt as opposed to grass.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Clowning Around

    • Clowning Around

    • Pre-service training (PST)

    • I took this photo during Pre-service Training (PST) of H-17 on July 9, 2010 in Honduras. It includes all members of the H-17 Municipal Development class that were invited to Honduras and were later sworn in on September 10, 2010. The photo shows...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stove Building

    • Stove Building

    • Pre-service training (PST)

    • This picture was taken in Honduras on August 18, 2010, after the completion of building a cookstove in one day. As municipal development trainees, we were tasked with building new cookstoves for families, together with the local University in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taking Off for Turkey

    • Taking Off for Turkey

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • This photo depicts the Turkey 10 group of community development Volunteers about to leave Los Angeles for Turkey in 1966. We made stops in Greenland, Copenhagen, and Istanbul before arriving in Ankara, Turkey.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteers

    • Volunteers

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bulgaria's Paul Bunyan

    • Bulgaria's Paul Bunyan

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • In the town square of our training site, Panagyurishte, there is an enormous moument of Buglaria's version of Paul Bunyan. His name is Bori Mechkata (Bear Fighter). On beautiful days, we would gather here for language training class. After climbing...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Honduras Cultural Day

    • Honduras Cultural Day

    • Pre-service training (PST); Cross-cultural training

    • This photo was taken during Pre-service Training (PST) Cultural Day on July 2, 2010 in Honduras. Cultural Day was a major celebration between PST staff and trainees, helping trainees learn all about our new country's traditions, foods, and culture.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Involvement

    • Community Involvement

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos

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