Posts tagged indonesia
Life is calling. How far will you go?
“When a student sees a postcard sent from a faraway place and realizes it’s addressed to them, it sparks an enthusiasm for learning English that the textbooks don’t match. Even my least motivated students will call me aside to help them decipher new words and phrases.”
- Peace Corps Volunteer Matthew Borden, who is teaching students in his Indonesian community English with the help of postcards through a project he calls Postcards to Java
(Source: peacecorps.gov)
(photos by RPCV Truong Nguyen - ID4)
#promoting peace #indonesia #religious tolerance #education volunteer
A group of girls celebrate at a Ramadan parade in Ngawi regency, East Java, Indonesia.
(photo by PCV Daniel Paulk - ID5)
Preview from the first ever Camp iGLOW (Indonesian Girls Leading Our World). Photo taken by a participant during an ‘intro to photography’ session. After offering tips and advice, we sent them off to practice, using our cameras… this was one of my favorites.
the father of one of my students, working on his fields on a sunday afternoon, harvesting melons among several other noms
it’s coming along slowly but surely
I had just gotten back home to site from being in the city for two weeks of intensive in-service training. I was nervous about returning to site, returning to my normal routine, the seclusion, the intense cultural differences that make living in a village and city so vastly different. The small children always seem to add color and excitement to life. Upon arriving back home from school, there was a group waiting anxiously for me to come back, it was one of the best feelings. I have never had so much fun playing “Go Fish”, a new game for them. They made the transition much easier.
- Peace Corps Education Volunteer Elle Chang, Indonesia
Two Volunteers take part in a training session at local rice paddies in Tlekung, Indonesia (Java Timur). They beat the rice plants to remove kernels, which are later dried to allow removal of actual rice.
Volunteer Paige Gable - Peace Corps Indonesia, 2011-2013
First Place - Providing Technical Assistance
50th Anniversary Photo Contest
(Source: collection.peacecorps.gov)
The children in my village have taken me in at their big sister, calling me “kakak” rather than my actual name. It’s heart-warming. They love to take me to the sugarcane fields that surround our village. They run with knifes, and it makes me nervous, but it’s the norm here. Children run free here. I love this photograph because I actually let Sylvie, a 9-year old with very sticky fingers from the sugarcane juices, use my Canon SLR to take this. Whenever she sees this photo, she proudly says “aku aku” or “mine mine”.
Peace Corps Education Volunteer Elle Chang
traditional home & a traditional cow
