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It's my party

Balloons and soda are worldwide symbols of a child's birthday. Here guests of the birthday girl patiently await the cutting of the cake and opening of the bottles.
Celebrating Culture

Two young Amazigh ladies show off the traditional dress of their region at an English language summer camp. Despite its small appearance, Morocco is as diverse in language and culture as it is in places to visit.
Always Room for One More

Volunteers around the world are no stranger to jamming as many people into public transportation as possible. Someone to the left of the driver? That's disconcerting.
Peace Corps Carnival

Kids enjoy face painting, bobbing for apples and other joys of the American way at a carnival put on by volunteers during PST. Volunteer Antoine does his best to keep up with these crazy kids.
Women are Women- Everywhere

In the small town where I was a volunteer, women wear long black synthetic sheets of fabric wrapped complicatedly around their bodies. The way it's wrapped creates a hood that can be easily pulled together around their mouthes and noses in the event that a man appears. These women are great mothers and superb caretakers. Everyday they clean their entire house, prepare four homemade meals for their families and even find time to pray five times. To the outsider, these women are uneducated and ...
Host Country: Peace Corps

The cross-cultural exchange. The foreign sea of oddity. The languages, late nights, loneliness, thrills, aches and pure, heartwrenching love we all felt. Those intensified emotions that only Peace Corps volunteers recognize in one another. Give it a day, a week, a year...eventually, we know. We all know. We are a one of a kind community of wanderers. A society of individuals built on the mutual understanding that the world can and will change if a few dedicated persons are willing to o...
Remember when...

You were scared to not get gifts from Santa if you were bad? Yeah, well, Morocco (in the deep Southern Region) stepped that up a notch. Moroccan kids were scared by Goat Man if they misbehaved. After Eid, Moroccans dressed in goat skins to frighten little kids straight. Worked for me. Credit to Mark Smith!
Wall

Memories of booda tanks and half painted walls...
Painting Houses

A fellow volunteer's host mom painting her house deep Tazekka Mountain style. Credit to Andrew Cyr/Bobbi Sandwich
Habiba

My best friend in my village taught me more about what it was to be 'tough' than any other person I've met. She was making a fire to bake some bread in her clay oven.

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