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From Chris Flowers: The staff and children at our center have been bringing in these flowers which I think are called ghiocel. It’s the first flower of spring. With today’s temperature reaching 17 C (low 60s F) it feels like Spring. Primavara a venit. #rcpc http://ift.tt/1Qe4vCc
"During the first few weeks working on the farm, we joked that we were doing ‘Peace Corps Ohio.’"- “Corps to Career: How my service inspired sustainable entrepreneurship”: http://1.usa.gov/1HbSdaX
“I took this photo at a local flower exhibition on Dominica Island in the Eastern Caribbean. Two fellow peace Corps volunteers helped with this flower show.”
“My little host sister in Armenia”
“I took this photo during the summer of 2014, at my host family’s home in a Village, in Armenia. I have lived with my host family for one year, and plan to stay with them until the end of my service. There is so much love and understanding in this Village, and whenever I miss home, being around the locals clarifies any doubts I have about my service. My work here, it is important to me, but my relationship with the locals means so much more.”
Mouhou Boussine, my counterpart, and I are sitting amongst her drying roses in the Valley of the Roses in Morocco. As a small business development Volunteer, I helped Mouhou develop the weaving association in the village. The weavers were all agrarian farmers and every spring, we woke at dawn to harvest roses which we often cooked into rosewater.
- Peace Corps Business Development Volunteer Terra Fuller
In the photo, I was teaching two of my host sisters, Samira and Hafsa, about how in America we make wishes on dandelions. We live in the Sahara desert but near an Oasis. Here the children know every plant, herb and even weed that grows. They always want me to eat some strange seed, or smell a weird plant. Now they know another use for dandelions! Photo taken by fellow Volunteer, Jo Troyer.
Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer Rachel Rubinski