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    • Hand Turkey Thanksgiving in Bulgaria

    • Hand Turkey Thanksgiving in Bulgaria

    • Work; Children; Celebrations; Teachers and students

    • I spent an hour a week with a group of 4-5 year olds at one of the local kindergartens. I was asked to share some American holidays with them, and told them about Thanksgiving. The children seemed very excited about turkeys, so we made turkeys by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students with Projects

    • Students with Projects
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    • My teaching was a bit more interactive than the traditional Turkish teachers'. I'd ask students to act out what vocabulary they were learning. Here was a day's lesson on prepositions. Most of my orta okul (middle school) students were from...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children's Day Festival Middle School

    • Children's Day Festival Middle School

    • host community friends

    • After the big children's day parade, a group of middle school students, the principal, the assistant principal and a male teacher posed with me on the steps of the Karamanli Orta Okulu. I'm standing in the background and except for my smile and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Forty-five years later

    • Forty-five years later

    • Host community friends; Children

    • When my husband and I visited Turkey 45 years after I had been a Peace Corps Volunteer, we were invited to stay with one of my former students, Huseyin. He, his wife Hafize and daughter were living in Istanbul, far from Kirikhan in southeastern...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Market Day

    • Market Day

    • Markets

    • On market day in my town, Kirikhan, in southeastern Turkey, villagers sold produce like dried beans or eggplant, fresh tomatoes, onions, and green beans. I had never seen an open market like this with women wearing colorful shalvars, baggy pants...
    • 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
    • Students with Projects

    • Students with Projects

    • Teachers and students; Schools; Education

    • My teaching was a bit more interactive than the traditional Turkish teachers'. I'd ask students to act out what vocabulary they were learning. Here was a day's lesson on prepositions. Most of my orta okul (middle school) students were from villages...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Tea Seller

    • The Tea Seller

    • Traditional dress; Food and meals; children

    • Tea is as important a drink in Turkey as is coffee. When visiting with Turkish friends, they always offered tea first. Later coffee, more expensive and more time consuming to make, would be offered. I was always amazed at how this young boy could...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey

    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey

    • Cooking; Food and meals; Celebrations

    • For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti in 1984, all of the volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps: one part of ACTION

    • Peace Corps: one part of ACTION

    • Marketing campaigns; ACTION

    • Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities and how Peace Corps fit in to the newly formed federal agency ACTION, which was established on July 1, 1971. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is...
    • Brochures
    • Agriculture: the fight to feed a hungry world

    • Agriculture: the fight to feed a hungry world

    • Marketing campaigns; Agriculture; Volunteer recruitment

    • Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the field of agriculture. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
    • Brochures
    • The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine

    • The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine

    • Marketing campaigns; Doctors; Medicine

    • Full text of a brochure aimed at recruiting medical doctors to serve as Peace Corps staff physicians. Discusses ways that Peace Corps doctors provided support to both Volunteers and host communities throughout the world. Although no exact date of...
    • Brochures
    • Four for the Peace Corps

    • Four for the Peace Corps

    • Marketing campaigns; Returned Volunteer services; Volunteer recruitment

    • Full text of a brochure highlighting four of the earliest Peace Corps Volunteers--what inspired them to join, what they encountered overseas and how their experiences have helped shape their lives after their Peace Corps service. Although no exact...
    • Brochures

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