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    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Celebrations; Games

    • Kazakh horsemen participate in a game of Kokpar during the Nauryz celebration to mark the beginning of Spring. Two teams attempt to take possession of a headless goat carcass and drop it in a goal on their side of the field. The field was muddy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Graduate

    • The Graduate

    • celebrations; traditional dress

    • Evangeleen, one of my 8th grade students, strikes at pose after their graduation ceremony. Graduations are reminiscient of weddings -- white dresses, church, pride, and lots of flowers and gifts. Sometimes a graduate will get so many mwarmwars --...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Christmas in School

    • Christmas in School

    • Children; Host community; Dance

    • Three of my students celebrate the holidays in a customary fashion -- with a HUGE party at school! Each class arranged a gift exchange and enjoyed many sugary snacks. Then the hired band (a synthesizer with two singers) started up and the dancing...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kids on the Hood

    • Kids on the Hood

    • Children; Host community; Transportation

    • The first weekend at my new house, I did a photo tour of the grounds for my folks back home. The kids accompanied me and showed me how everything on the premises -- including the old car -- could be used for a photoshoot. August 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Second Wedding

    • Second Wedding

    • Children; Host community; Weddings

    • A bride and groom kneel before a priest in the family's nahs (meeting house). The groom was previosly married to the bride's sister who had recently passed away. This marriage was arranged and encouraged by all the extended family to keep the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water, Water, Everywhere

    • Water, Water, Everywhere

    • funerals

    • Two women seek out the shade during day one of a funeral in Pohnpei, FSM. Beside them are the several gallons of water there for the mourners, also seeking some coolness. May, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp G.L.O.W., Pohnpei 2010

    • Camp G.L.O.W., Pohnpei 2010

    • Girls' education; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Camps and clubs

    • Two PCVs get ready for the start of Camp G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World). FSM Pictured: Amanda (M76) and Kate (M75) June 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baskets of Goodies

    • Baskets of Goodies

    • Host community; Funerals;

    • A Pohnpeian woman sits with her spoils in the nahs (meeting house) during a funeral -- e.g. the most important of social occasions in Pohnpei. January 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Seisumwomw (Gathering Trochus)

    • Seisumwomw (Gathering Trochus)

    • Host families; Animals

    • Pohnpeians can harvest sumwomw -- trochus, a species of sea snail highly valued for its shell -- only one week every year. Pictured here is my host father holding up his catch. Playing hookie from school and accompanying my host family on this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baseball in the Field

    • Baseball in the Field

    • sports

    • Sunday afternoon in Lukop, Madolenihmw, Pohnpei, FSM. The baseball leagues are very popular, even if the best places to play are just in fields like this one that have been hand-cleared by machetes. February, 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Photography Class

    • Photography Class

    • Teachers and students; Camps and clubs

    • June 11, 2009, Algha, Kazakhstan. This was taken during a two week long "Friendship Bridge" summer camp organized by another volunteer. The camp included ten volunteers, ten local teachers, and one hundred 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students. In...
    • Volunteer Photos

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