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    • The Last Supper

    • The Last Supper

    • Host families; Celebrations; Food and meals

    • This was the last dinner I had with my host family before I left training. This is in the city of Chernigov--my host mother is the blond woman at the far left. The person sitting next to me is another Peace Corps Volunteer with her host mother. I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Mamaliga Flop

    • The Mamaliga Flop

    • host community friends; food and meals

    • This photo was taken in August, 2011, at my Romanian tutor's house in the north of Moldova. We spent the afternoon picking fresh vegetables from the garden, cooking traditional Moldovan foods, and then enjoying the pay off of our work. Her husband,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Tea Seller

    • The Tea Seller

    • Traditional dress; Food and meals; children

    • Tea is as important a drink in Turkey as is coffee. When visiting with Turkish friends, they always offered tea first. Later coffee, more expensive and more time consuming to make, would be offered. I was always amazed at how this young boy could...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • This is the Way You Do It!

    • This is the Way You Do It!

    • Food and meals

    • Women in my village in Thailand are showing Volunteer Carla Arnold how to make kao tom, a traditional Thai dessert. Raw rice and a piece of banana are put on a small square of banana leaf. It is folded in a very special way and secured with a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tiny Market of Beignets and Tchouk Beer

    • Tiny Market of Beignets and Tchouk Beer

    • Markets; Food and meals

    • This is a tiny market on Wednesday afternoon in Affem Kabye. The women make beignets and beer to sell to the men after they come home from the fields. Women also drink the locally brewed millet beer. This market is so small that women do not even...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tofu Making

    • Tofu Making

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • I took this photo of a fellow Volunteer, Julie, helping her counterpart, Suzi (shown), demonstrate a tofu making class to the women at an orphanage in my village of Baham, Cameroon. In the photo, Julie and Suzi are straining the soy milk before...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trifon Zarezan Day Participation

    • Trifon Zarezan Day Participation

    • traditional dress; food and meals

    • On February 12, 2011, I participated with the ladies folk group in greeting visitors to Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria. The photo shows me dressed in traditional costume, offering bread as a welcome to visitors. The occasion was Trifon Zarezan Day, a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ukrainian Welcome Bread

    • Ukrainian Welcome Bread

    • Celebrations; Food and meals; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Peace Corps Ukraine Group 39 arrived in Ukraine and was welcomed with traditional bread, dipped in salt. In this picture, trainees are dipping their pieces of the bread in salt.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Uzbek Host Family

    • Uzbek Host Family

    • food and meals; host families

    • I was invited over to my host family's mother's home, a lovely compound in the southern Uzbek mountains. We feasted, toasted and had a lovely time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vegetable Garden

    • Vegetable Garden

    • food and meals; agriculture

    • Unicef furnished us vegetable seeds so we could help the women in the villages learn to plant and maintain vegetable gardens to have a variety of vegetables all year long. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Winter 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Women

    • Village Women

    • youth; food and meals; traditional dress

    • I took this photo in Toufestelt village near my site in Ain Leuh, Ifrane Province, Morocco during the July 4, 2011 celebration that I shared with them. I was working with a group of 12 lakeside high school students from Seatle, Wa. who were there...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteers on the Road

    • Volunteers on the Road

    • Food and meals

    • Two Rural Development Volunteers in Guinea (1964) are having lunch on the road. They had stopped in a village, bought something to eat, traveled a bit more, and then stopped to have lunch. They were new volunteers and appear to be somewhat amused...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • The people of Issan (Northeast Thailand) are very resourceful, especially when it comes to eating. This is a boiling ox placenta. It so happens that the calf was named "Farang" (which means foreigner) in my honor. I was the first one to be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Heart Beans

    • We Heart Beans

    • Elders; Food and meals; Cooking

    • Bulgarians eat a lot beans. This picture was taken in late September after the pods of the beans had dried on the stalk. Ahmed is taking the pleasure of beating all of the dried beans out of their shells and after this labor intensive work they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Roll Together

    • We Roll Together

    • Cooking; Host families; Food and meals

    • This is a photo of my host mother (Aishe) and I. This was the first time we made byrek together. She was teaching me how to effectively roll thin layers of pastry dough for the byrek. The photo was taken March 20, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos

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