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    • Relaxing on the South Shore

    • Relaxing on the South Shore
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    • A lone sunbather rests on the southern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, while a throng of sheep search for grass in the sand. While the north shore of the lake is quite developed and popular with tourists, the south shore still offers serenity...
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    • Faces Full of Books

    • Faces Full of Books
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    • This is the first time our English classroom in Darkhan Village, Kyrygzstan, has had good textbooks. They came our way through a private donation from the U.S. Here is a group of 3rd graders, proudly showing off their colorful new books.
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    • Let's Go: Learning a Third Language

    • Let's Go: Learning a Third Language
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    • In the school where I worked in Darkhan Village, Kyrgyzstan, students like these two 3rd-grade girls use the cyrillic alphabet in all their classes. They can speak Kyrgyz and Russian, but learning English is difficult, because they have to learn a...
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    • An Afternoon Rainbow

    • An Afternoon Rainbow
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    • The day my host sister, Begaim, announced that she was getting married, a summer afternoon rain shower gave way to a dramatic double rainbow in my small village in eastern Kyrgyzstan. We rushed outside to take pictures. Here, my youngest host...
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    • English party at school

    • English party at school
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    • My counterpart decided on a whim one day to have an "English party." For two weeks, our students, who barely knew any English, rehearsed "Sleeping Beauty." They made all their own props and costumes and memorized their lines from a book my aunt...
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    • A Cultural Exchange through Snowboarding

    • A Cultural Exchange through Snowboarding
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    • Here is Azamat, hiking back up the hill with my snowboard for another run. Azamat was helping us collect firewood for a winter tourism project deep in the Terskey Ala-Too range of the Tien Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan. At the end of the day, our...
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    • A Kyrgyz Yurt in a Snow Storm

    • A Kyrgyz Yurt in a Snow Storm
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    • Peace Corps takes you to some far-out places. This is me, posing in front of a yurt during a blizzard. The yurt was about four miles above a small village in eastern Kyrgyzstan called Ichkey-Jergez, nestled in the foothills of the Terskey Ala-Too...
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    • Mark

    • Mark
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    • This photo was taken during my community-based training (March-April 2011). This picture is of my trainer at our water source standing next to our Dominican guide.
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