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2019 was a year of
2019 was a year of
Hellos and goodbyes
Reconnections and learning
It was a year of
Relearning past passions
And reigniting old flames
It was a year full of
laughter and tears
Of good company and great memories
It was a year of
Challenges and accomplishments
Travel and adventures
Most importantly, it was a year of love.
Here’s to 2019 and looking…
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Naone School Library Update 2019
Naone School Library Update 2019
2019 was a very successful year for our school’s library. At the end of the 2018 school year we received a donation of books from Darien Book Aid. The new books helped ignite the interest of students to explore new stories in the upcoming year.
Students with new books from Darien Book Aid, November 2018
Throughout the 2020 school I read several of the donated chapter books to our year 5…
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Promoting Tourism on Maewo Pt. 2: Hanare Kastom Village
Promoting Tourism on Maewo Pt. 2: Hanare Kastom Village
In a rapidly changing society, how do you hold on to and pass down the traditions and practices of your ancestors? How do you pass along ways of doing everyday tasks when new technologies have provided easier methods? How do you honor the first high chief of your island when the people of the island have migrated away from the village he was buried in and the bush has taken back the land? This is…
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Promoting Tourism on Maewo Pt. 1: Sharing Qwilorua Waterfall and Culture in Naone
Promoting Tourism on Maewo Pt. 1: Sharing Qwilorua Waterfall and Culture in Naone
In a rapidly changing society, how do you hold on to and pass down the traditions and practices of your ancestors? How do you pass along ways of doing everyday tasks when new technologies have provided easier methods? How do you honor the first high chief of your island when the people of the island have migrated away from the village he was buried in and the bush has taken back the land? This is…
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Happy International Volunteer Day!
Happy International Volunteer Day!
Today (December 5th) was International Volunteer Day! A fact that I was unaware of until this morning around 9:30am.
The day has prompted a lot of reflection on the last 31 1/2 months since I officially began my Peace Corps journey. These last couple of years have been both some of the most challenging and rewarding years of my life so far – there is a reason why Peace Corps service is often…
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Halloween 2019
Halloween is my favorite American holiday. It always has been, and probably always will be. There is something about it, between the costumes and spooky stories I have always drawn me to the holiday. That being said, it is no surprise that Halloween is the one holiday I have been fairly adamant about sharing with people here.
This was our second time having Halloween at the school. Last year,…
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Naone Solar Project
For the past two years I have had the pleasure to call Vanuatu home. I have made great friendships and memories here, and feel lucky to get to spend the next several months here.
As most, if not all, of the people in my life know, I am serving in Vanuatu as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV). Since arriving in 2017 my main focus has been helping teachers create reusable classroom resources,…
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English Camp
Vanuatu’s school year generally runs from February to November, with three terms that are all separated by a two-week holiday. During the two week break between terms many students will help their families in the gardens, go to a nearby island or village to visit family (especially those students who stay with extended family while classes are in session), or just hang around playing in the…
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A New Classroom in Ngota
A New Classroom in Ngota
One of the greatest attributes of a successful Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) is flexibility. They are able to go with the punches and adjust their work to the needs and interests of their community. A successful volunteer lets any preconceived notions of what their work will be fall aside for the reality of the situation they find themselves in. A prime example of this is my dear friend, and…
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Upcycling to Create Classroom Resources: Date Display Cards
Being at any school has its challenges. One is the leading challenges at my school is having access to easily bring in ready-made classroom resources. To order ones from a store and have them sent to us is simply too expensive to be sustainable. As a result, it can be a challenge to keep learning fun and interesting for students. Luckily, with some creativity and recycling we are able to create…
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Upcycling to Create Classroom Resources: Phonemic Sorting Game
Upcycling to Create Classroom Resources: Phonemic Sorting Game
Being at any school has its challenges. One is the leading challenges at my school is having access to easily bring in ready-made classroom resources. To order ones from a store and have them sent to us is simply too expensive to be sustainable. As a result, it can be a challenge to keep learning fun and interesting for students. Luckily, with some creativity and recycling we are able to create…
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Upcycling to Create Classroom Resources: Flash Cards
Upcycling to Create Classroom Resources: Flash Cards
Being at any school has its challenges. One is the leading challenges at my school is having access to easily bring in ready-made classroom resources. To order ones from a store and have them sent to us is simply too expensive to be sustainable. As a result, it can be a challenge to keep learning fun and interesting for students. Luckily, with some creativity and recycling we are able to create…
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Happy 2 Year Anniversary, Vanuatu! 🇻🇺
Today marks my 2nd year anniversary of being in Vanuatu.
A lot has happened in the convening two years. Growth. Intense happiness. Intense sorrow. Confidence building. Self-discovery.
I am both the same person and a different person from whom I was when I first stepped on that plane in LAX with a group of 40 strangers to make the journey, first to Fiji and then to Port Vila. Those 40 people who…
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So You Want to be a Peace Corps Volunteer? Thoughts and Advice from PCVs and RPCVs
So You Want to be a Peace Corps Volunteer? Thoughts and Advice from PCVs and RPCVs #PeaceCorpsWeek #PeaceCorps #PeaceCorpsDay
I recently asked some PCVs and RPCVs to let me know what it is that they would want to tell someone who was considering serving in the Peace Corps. The majority of the responses are from volunteers in my country of service, Vanuatu, but there are also a few from volunteers who served elsewhere. Many people had similar things to say so I have made a list of these things with attributing them to…
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Disability in Vanuatu
It is the International Day for Peoples with Disabilities, and to honor the day I have written a post on Disability in Vanuatu! (Featured image property of Wan SmolBag) #disability #vanuatu #southpacific #theatre
This is a post that many of my friends in the disability community in the States have been asking me to write for a while. For various reasons I have not written this post yet. Some reasons are due to sheer busyness, some beacuae I haven’t felt properly equipped to do so – I still do not feel fully capable of doing this topic the justice it deserves.
Disability is very different in Vanuatu than…
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Finish This Sentence: The one thing I wish Americans knew about my country of service is...
Finish This Sentence: The one thing I wish Americans knew about my country of service is…
Every four months Peace Corps Volunteers are supposed to submit a report about what they are doing at site. Along with reporting what you activities you are doing at site, the report contains several questions that work try to get our thoughts and opinions as volunteers. One of these questions are:
Finish this sentence: The one thing I wish Americans knew about my country of service is…
This…
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Halloween on the Island
Halloween on the Island
It was a hot and balmy Halloween day. I found myself on an island of biting centipedes, coconut crabs, and very large spiders…
Halloween is a very…American holiday. I knew that before coming to Vanuatu from the amount of BBC shows I often found myself watching growing up that made fun of it. Between Halloween not being widely celebrated in Vanuatu and it being my favorite holiday, I saw a great…
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