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...
Miras, a 6th grader at Saumalkol Kazakh Secondary School in northern Kazakhstan, performs a song during a Nauryz celebration on March 22, 2011. Nauryz is the Kazakh New Year and is celebrated across the country with traditional activities like...