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    • Iskar Clothing

    • Iskar Clothing

    • Traditional dress; Volunteers; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Peace Corps Bulgaria Trainees, Jacqueline and Chris, try on traditional Bulgarian clothing in Iskar preparing for a PST cross cultural project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saying goodbye

    • Saying goodbye

    • 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...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • In-Service Training on Lake Iteshi-teshi , Zambia

    • In-Service Training on Lake Iteshi-teshi , Zambia

    • Pre-service Training (PST); agriculture; fishing

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aregua 2 Training Class, Paraguay

    • Aregua 2 Training Class, Paraguay

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Our training group had just arrived in country in June, 1989, and our first stop was Ykua Sati, a retreat center just outside of Asuncion, where we spent a few nights for orientation, language testing and lots of shots by the Peace Corps Medical...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Environment; Water and Sanitation

    • This is a photo of a field base training that I set up in my village Koporo-pen. We were doing a top well repair and another Volunteer and I took that opportunity to train Peace Corps trainees as well as our own village masons. We brought some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing the Oro with My Host Dad

    • Dancing the Oro with My Host Dad

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

    • My host mom took this photo on September 18, 2009 on the final day of orientation week in Macedonia. We had just met our host parents for the first time, and in an effort to "break the ice" volunteers and their host families danced the oro.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Group 36 - Farewell to Host Families

    • Group 36 - Farewell to Host Families

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • This photo was taken in Ukraine. All the host families came to say goodbye to us. Training was over and we were taking the bus to Swearing in. It was a day full of tears of sadness but also tears of joy.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Latvia Group 9 Volunteers

    • Latvia Group 9 Volunteers

    • Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers

    • The Volunteers of Group 9 Latvia gather with Peace Corps training staff in Valmiera, Latvia toward the end of our training in Summer 2000. We are in the ruins of a castle believed to have been built in the 1280s.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Food and meals; Pre-service training (PST)

    • Close to the apartment where I lived in Arad, the driver in this classic Dacia had fallen asleep. In the back were loaves of bread. During in-service training I stayed with a host family in Ploiesti (I felt I was the luckiest of Volunteers to have...
    • 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
    • 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

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