Photo was taken Easter Weekend, 2010. I went home to celebrate Easter with my host family. This photo of my mom Mary and I were taken in our backyard by my sister Victoria.
Host families; Celebrations; Pre-service Training (PST)
This photo was taken near the end of my summer training in Baruunburren soum, Mongolia, 2003. This celebration was both a celebration of the end of our training in the village and the opening of my host father's veterinarian hospital. We were...
This photo was taken in August 2009, the last month of stage, in Bangante, Cameroon in front of my host family's home. Pictured, my host mom, three sisters, brother and cousins.
This is a picture of Volunteer Victoria Browne with her family at the farm during Christmas 2008. On the right of the Volunteer is Emelita Rivera, and to her right, host father Carlos Rivera. This is the picture of the immediate family and friends,...
I took this photo in the summer of 2009 in my yard with my host mother in a small village in Ukraine. Summertime brings so many fresh fruits and vegetables to the market and such beautiful weather after the long hard winter that it is hard to keep...
My PST host mom and me in our outdoor kitchen during the summer. Leaving everything I know to come to a country that I had barely heard of was quite possibly one of the most difficult things I’ve ever decided to do. Life was full of craziness as...
This picture of my host sisters, my host mother and myself was taken in a beautiful park near our home in Chengdu. We had just spent a beautiful Sunday afternoon listening to live, traditional music, playing games, eating, drinking tea and walking...
My host mom and I at my Swearing- In Ceremony, 10-31-2008. Since the day I arrived to St. Kitts Tracey has welcomed me into her family. About a week into my stay she was "mom" and I was "daughter."
This photo was taken in southern Morocco, in my site, which is comfortably nestled into a river valley in the Sahara Desert. In April 2009, my mom came to visit me in Morocco. I treasure this picture, sitting in between my real mother (on the left)...
I took this picture of my Coordinator, Natalya, upon my arrival in L'viv, Urkaine in May 2005. I was assigned to work with Natalya at the Institute of Non-Profit Management at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
On the left is Слава Скребнева (Slava Skrebneva), my host-mom for three years while I was in Stakhanov, Ukraine. I'm in the middle and on the right is one of our good friends. We are standing in front of the Afghanistan War Memorial...
About half way through my Peace Corps service I visited my Pre-Service Training site to see my host-stay family. This is a picture of my host-stay family's house. It was taken around February 2007 in Alarobia, Madagascar.
Host community friends; Children; Traditional dress
This is a photo of my 3-year old neighbor who is a cousin of my host siblings. She is wearing the traditional woven clothing typical of rural Mayan communities in Guatemala.
This is a picture of me and my host mother and was taken around February 2007 in Alarobia, Madagascar. About half way through my Peace Corps service I went back to my pre-service training site to visit my host-stay family. We are standing outside...
This is a photo of my classroom in Bekescsaba, Hungary. I taught groups of 15 6th through 8th grade students in this classroom around the single table you can partly see in the photo. I'm standing at the back windows of the classroom. When I...