This photo shows a glimpse of the first time the English major students at Lanzhou University celebrated Halloween. Students wore costumes and gathered for food, drink, pumpkin carving, dancing and merriment!
My host father during the Memorial Easter celebration at the cemetery. During this celebration, people gather and put "gifts" on the graveside to honor their dead. It is a huge community event and amazing to experience the oneness of the "mahala."
This photo was taken on 6 Sept. 2010 at a Monastery in Bulgaria. The 6th of September is a major holiday for the town. Everyone hikes to the monastery ruins, for blessings from the priest and a picnic. The picture shows me and people from the...
This picture was taken during a Christmas celebration my roommate and I organized for the less fortunate children of Tarrafal. Most of the children came from a zone called Campo Pedrada. The children from this zone have very little to eat or...
Peace Corps Country Director for Kenya, Steve and his wife Barbara, hosted a party for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) living in Kenya on February 26, 2011. There were about 100 RPCVs in attendance.
I took this photo of my eleventh grade students celebrating their final paint strokes during a school mural project in Orsova, Romania. In the project, eight high school classes were able to design and paint a mural, it was an amazing experience...
Another teacher took this photo of myself, students and some other teachers preparing for the Loy Krathong festival in Thailand in my village. We are making a krathong for the parade later in the evening. We are using banana leaves and flowers. ...
A PCV painted the photo booth cutout and all during the celebration young and old posed as a Turkmen boy, Turkmen girl, or PCV. In this shot is the Health Program Manager, PCMO, and Language and Cultural Facilitator Coordinator.
Host community friends; Food and meals; Celebrations
This photograph was taken in November of 2009, in my first village, a small Bulgarian Muslim community in northeastern Bulgaria. Kurban Bairam is one of the greatest holidays of the year in the Muslim community, and as I was learning about their...
This is a photo of my host mother and my host grandmothers on Chinese New Year 2010. In Cambodia many families celebrate Chinese New Year by offering food up to the ancestors and burning incense. That day we prepared three separate meals; one for...
My first Christmas back in America. I am wearing my teaching uniform from my Islamic High School in Indonesia. My grandchildren Talon, Kira & Arlo are wearing Muslim prayer caps and a jilbab for young girls. Grandma Oma Colleen Young is telling her...