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Student presentations in the classroom.
Peace Corps Presentation

I came to realize that while most people had known about the Peace Corps for years, few really understood what the organization was or why it existed at all. So when my university asked me to put on a presentation for a conference I chose Peace Corps as my topic. The three goals of Peace Corps, the different fields and countries it worked in was pretty much all new information for my audience.
Mummy Maker

Here my English Club is having a Halloween Party I put together for them. They were at first reluctant to embrace a party like atmosphere while in a classroom, but they enthusiastic wrapped each other up in toilet paper.
Ukrainian Marriage Agencies

When my Ukrainian girlfriend broke up with me I wasn't thrilled, but I wasn't that surprised either, the relationship was stalled and I knew it was going to end eventually. That she broke up with me did come as a surprise to people back in America who seemed convinced that Ukrainian women would want to marry me for a ride back into America. They didn't. Girls there wanted the same thing they wanted from me in America, which was friendship. The somewhat aggravating result was that most o...
RPCV Adds a Y

Piece to go with photo: “Hello, Ms. Taylor. Our records show that you are filing for a name change. Can you please spell your desired new last name?” “Yes. B-a-l-t-i-y-s-k-y-y.” “Ok, I’ll put in the records Baltisky is your new last name. Is that Russian?" “No, it's Ukrainian. My husband's from Ukraine. It’s spelled: B, as in back home A, as in, acceptance L, as in, missing Lviv T, as in, terrified by traffic I, as in, irrit...
September 11th Across the Ocean

The word for terrorist sounds the same in the three languages of my daily life -- English, Russian and Ukrainian. But I didn't want to write about the attacks on America in any language. There has been enough in the news, I wrote to one friend. I am in Ukraine, what do I know, I e-mailed another. The truth? I was scared I couldn't find the right words. Turns out, I didn't have to. A little girl in the fifth form at School Number 37 in Poltava found them for me. As we flipped though a copy o...
Community Service Project

Community Service Project in Kneja, Bulgaria.
Keeping Up

Hired helpers were trying to keep up at an Azeri village wedding.
Cotton Candy

Katea's first bite of cotton candy.
A Tale of Two Countries: Father and Son in the Peace Corps

A Tale of Two Countries Father and Son in the Peace Corps By Mason Robbins, RPCV, Haiti 1999-2001, and Joel Robbins, RPCV, Azerbaijan, 2007-2009 Mason--We like to be able to boast to others, “Been there, done that.” Saying it makes us feel older, more experienced, wiser, more proud and condescending, maybe, when we are young. Saying it to my 63-year-old father makes me proud. Not proud of me, proud of him. My father served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Azerbaijan from 2007 ...

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