Group 131 Caitlin Navratil (YinD): Sweet Water Ian Tramm (YinD): Dear Passenger Katherine Gallagher (YinD): Yindee! Megan McNelis (TESS): How Are You Caribou Natalie Heinitz (YinD): The Thai Tea Shannon Murphy (TESS): Bohemia […]
Group 129 Angela (TCCS): Ang in Wonderland Carly Allard (YinD): T(ha)ime for Adventure Celete Kato (TCCS): The People & The Places Clarence Say (TCCS): REturn Courtney Kitzler (YinD): Life is an Adventure […]
Carly Allard, 129 YinD Stories. Tales. Adventures. Journeys. Each has a path in one direction or another. And each is unique and special. As are we. After all, isn’t life a journey? […]
Peace Corps Thailand Group 129 When I used to go on longer camping trips, we’d always end the last night with a special little ceremony. We’d each have a couple minutes to […]
We asked currently serving volunteers what they couldn’t go without during their service… I couldn’t go without the love of my students! Is it weird that my best friends are under 10? […]
Carly Allard, 129 YinD Card games have become an almost daily occurrence at my house. Uno, Phase 10, Spot It, Go Fish; we play ‘em all. I try to reign in my […]
Presented by PSDN (Peer Support Diversity Network) The period following Reconnect, a 10-day training that happens during our 7th month in Thailand, can be rough for many Peace Corps Volunteers. In an effort […]
Counterparts and Community of Group 129 As Group 129 completes their 20th month of service we look back on what their communities shared about them when they first got to site as […]
129 & 130, Peace Corps Thailand Magazine Staff This quarter Peace Corps Thailand Magazine welcomed 22 new volunteers onto our staff. We asked everyone to respond to our writing prompt for this quarter, “Home is…” as a way to introduce our new team. Celete Kato, 129 TESS Home is not a physical place, person, or […]
Carly Allard, 129 YinD Not long ago, one of my students asked me about the difference between “house” and “home”. I realized it was a completely valid question and an obvious source […]
Peace Corps Thailand Group 129 This quarter our staff voted on the theme, “What have you learned from Peace Corps?” We reached out to all 49 volunteers of Group 129 and asked […]
Carly Allard, 129 YinD “Here’s hoping I can ‘jai yen-yen’ and let fate run its course. Everything happens for a reason, right?” About a year ago I was somewhere in Sing Buri, […]
Sticky Rice Staff, 2017-2018 This quarter, instead of a theme we decided to try something new. The staff and contributors at Sticky Rice voted on a prompt which various members of our […]
Carly Allard, 129 YinD “Oh, by gosh, by golly! It’s time for mistletoe and holly!” Except mistletoe and holly aren’t readily available in rural Thailand. Neither are traditional Christmas trees, holiday TV […]
Carly Allard, 129 YinD Title: Sit and Cry: Two Years in the Land of Smiles Author: Burgess Needle, RPCV Thailand, 1967-69 Published: Wren Song Press (2017) Synopsis: Somewhere in Buriram, Thailand, there are people […]
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