With a fellow Volunteer's host mother and little host sister, we pose in our teaching clothes beside (and on top of) "Good Camel," named because she was much nicer -- and less spitting -- than the other camel on the compound. 2007
TEFL Volunteer Ilana in Balkan Region of Turkmenistan gets students to act out English actions with pantomime, Oct 2011. Students are wearing "tahya" hat" as part of their school uniform, with patterns unique to each gender and region.
Peace Corps Volunteer Andy (TEFL Turkmenistan) seems to have attracted a bevy of beauties to his after-school English Club. Young Turkmen women balance tradition, with long hair and hand-embroidered, long dresses, yet have a sense of fashion that...
Volunteer Shannon poses with the five Muslim, Turkmen English teachers at his school, giving a glimpse into the diversity of experience that Volunteers give and receive from their service abroad.