This is a photo of my counterpart, myself, and our 5th and 6th grade students on the last day of school in my last year of service. It was taken at our school, minutes before their final English exam took place.
I was greeted coming home from language training each day by an 84-year old grandmother next door. She often gave me fruit or boiled potatoes, and invited me to sit down and chat, though we could not understand each other. In this photo, I was...
This is a picture of a lake in Ukraine at the end of fall. My group and I are lucky enough to be able to study the Russian language during training not far from this lake. It is a great view in the mornings on our way to class.
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.