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Peeping Filipino kids

During a stay on Camigan Island off the coast of Midanao, these kids hung around our hut the better part of a day, periodically peeping around the gate.
Filipinas travel by Jeepney

During training in Cebu (Philippines), I caught this shot of three of our language instructors traveling into town.
Evacuation

I sat, silent, amazed at the beauty. I have been overwhelmed by the grandeur of this island nation, the beaches and the mountains and the sky. I have been shocked by the contrast between rich and poor and with the rush of hunger and anger. But this… Last night. 54 volunteers were told that they are going home. That we are going home. That the plane is coming at 5 am. They yelled and sobbed and laughed and drank and danced. I wanted to be sober, untired for each moment. It has been l...
Trike with Kids

After a day working in one of the villages, one of my coworks decided to snap this picture as we waited for the trike to fill up with people in order to return to the "poblacion".
Life as a Female Monk

I was recently offered the opportunity to join in a 2 week event which is allowing Females the same opportunity that Males have had forever. The opportunity was to ordain as a Female Buddhist Monk. The lineage of Female Monks in Thailand and in other parts of the world is in question but there are groups who are working to change this and make it possible for Females to experience the time honored tradition which has, for hundreds of years, only been available to Males. The experience was ...
Life as a Female Monk

I was recently offered the opportunity to join in a 2 week event which is allowing Females the same opportunity that Males have had forever. The opportunity was to ordain as a Female Buddhist Monk. The lineage of Female Monks in Thailand and in other parts of the world is in question but there are groups who are working to change this and make it possible for Females to experience the time honored tradition which has, for hundreds of years, only been available to Males. The experience was ...
Female Monk - Bhikkhunis Samaneri

I was recently offered the opportunity to join in a 2 week event which is allowing Females the same opportunity that Males have had forever. The opportunity was to ordain as a Female Buddhist Monk. The lineage of Female Monks in Thailand and in other parts of the world is in question but there are groups who are working to change this and make it possible for Females to experience the time honored tradition which has, for hundreds of years, only been available to Males. The experience w...
Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Touted in Songkran Parade

Songkran is the Thai New Year and is celebrated from April 13-15 each year. Traditionally, it was to visit and pay respect to elders, including family members, friends, neighbors and monks. Now, it has a new twist all tied to water and lots of it! During parades and or just trips down a road -- you are doused with water from containers, water guns or water hoses. You can give it as good as you receive. Groups also roam in the backs of trucks tossing water at other trucks or even people on the...
Beergin Coke

“Beergin Coke” It was, I don’t remember how many, but not many days after I arrived in country, that my co-newbie & I were invited to go out for drink by a local. Tom, (10 years my younger but partner in mischief) and I had been known to have a drink. We were in training at a mold-loving hot springs spa in a college town about an hour south of Manila. We were to be housed, in pairs, for a week, with local families. I also don’t remember the Baranguy Captain’s name, to my great re...
Sorsogon Pizza

Sorsogon Pizza I served as a Peace Corps Agricultural Advisor, assigned to Baranguay Salbacion, Magallanes, Sorsogon, Philippines, from 1979 to 1981. A major part of my work was to build & manage a nursery for the propagation of coffee, cacao, and black pepper, as one of several outposts of a USAID-funded project, the Sorsogon Crop Diversification Program. SCDP had been designed and proposed to USAID by an earlier Peace Corps Volunteer, Paul Driscoll, who had also recruited a recen...

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