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    • Teaching English

    • Teaching English

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations; Schools; Secondary projects

    • This photo was taken in November 2009 at Pandamatenga Primary School in Pandamatenga, Botswana. This was the end of the school year and we wanted to take a photo with the teacher and his standard 2 (equivalent of 1st grade) class, whom I was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Technology in Turkey

    • Technology in Turkey

    • Schools; Host community; Technology

    • In 2001 my husband, who was not in the Peace Corps, and I visited Turkey. Huseyin, a former student from 45 years ago, invited us to stay with him and his family in Istanbul. On our own, we visited Kirikhan, my site which is in southeastern Turkey....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Schools; Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Food and meals

    • I was teaching Conversational English in two high schools, one was Colegiul Baptist. This picture was at the teacher's cafeteria of Colegiul National Elena Ghiba-Birta in Arad, the then director of the school Doamna Iegariu poses for the camera in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan

    • Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan

    • Teachers and students; Camps and clubs; Schools; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in November 2009 shortly after I arrived at my site in Kazakhstan. This was one of the first English Clubs I held in the local Kazakh school. The photo shows myself and the children, and their completed Thanksgiving turkeys...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The English Teacher

    • The English Teacher

    • Education; Schools; Teachers and students

    • This photo was take on Teacher's Day 2010 in Mongolia, where students show their appreciation to their teachers through song and by presenting small gifts.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Entrance

    • The Entrance

    • schools; signs

    • Poro, Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines. June 2011. Our NGO was holding a DIsaster Risk Reduction program. The School was part of the refuge area for pretend victims. I was sitting wating for lunch and I noticed the old fashion attendance board....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The First World Map Project Map in the Peace Corps

    • The First World Map Project Map in the Peace Corps

    • Children; Education; Work; Schools; Teachers and students;

    • This is the first World Map Project Map in what was to become a standard Peace Corps activity worldwide. It is in the school in Hondo Valle, Dominican Republic. Volunteer Barbara Jo White is working with two high school students on the map. It was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • They Don't See Many Farangs

    • They Don't See Many Farangs

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • On my first visit to my village's school, the moment the kids saw me, they went nuts. The ones in the photo did not have an supervision, so they stormed out of the classrooms to look at the tall American who just came to their small school in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Think Fast

    • Think Fast

    • children; schools

    • Taken at Liceo San Jose del Rio Sucio in La Colonia, Costa Rica, this photo shows my husband, Chris Hall, working with a group of eighth grade boys. During their free period the boys took Chris up on his offer for an English review session; the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tom with a student

    • Tom with a student

    • children; schools

    • Tom was teaching a very energetic student. This student was smart, but didn't know how to interact with her surroundings. Tom made it an effort to illustrate 'raising hands' as a respectful way to get someone's attention.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance

    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance

    • Schools; Art

    • I painted this mural of a couple dancing, in traditional Guanacaste dress, on the exterior of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It is part of a large mural project I led with the students consisting of cultural...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tree Project at Khwalala CDSS

    • Tree Project at Khwalala CDSS

    • schools; agriculture

    • This is a compilation showing a successful tree planting project started during my Peace Corps tour in Malawi (2006-08) at Khwalala CDSS. The school's Wildlife Club planted and watered the trees, which are now producing fruit.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Triptych

    • Triptych

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • This photo was taken in a little alcove in the yard of the primary school where I served. The enclosure is made by heavy foliage overgrowing a barbed-wire fence. The students had taken in some chairs, in various states of disrepair, to sit on and...
    • Volunteer Photos

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