Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States written by Seung-Kyung Kim and published by Center for Korea Studies Publications. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"--
Download or read book Diary of a Peace Corps Volunteer written by Judith Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices from the Peace Corps written by Angene Hopkins Wilson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.
Download or read book Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook written by Travis Hellstrom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diaries of a Marshall Islands Peace Corps Volunteer written by Joanne Besonen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been published for the sole purpose of preserving and sharing my memories of my time as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Marshall Islands. It is not to be sold for profit by anyone including myself. This book is intended as a gift of love to the people of the Marshall Islands and other Peace Corps Volunteers."--Title page.
Download or read book Peace Corps Program Training Journal written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey for Peace A Journal of Peace written by Donald Yates and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Yates enrolled as a Peace Corps Volunteer after responding to the challenge then-President John F. Kennedy issued to young Americans to ‘ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’ From compiling over 500 pages of a diary kept while he worked as an educator and community developer in the Philippine Islands on the southern island of Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, he gleaned over 25 stories, or episodes, depicting highlights of his life there along with reflections of local culture. Many episodes, such as the prologue entitled Culture Shock, depict a young man’s orientation and involvement in a way of life very different from his upbringing as an American. Complete with photographs from his two-year tour of duty, Don has captured the essence of an area of the world rarely seen or visited by outsiders while sharing how he grew as a young man in a foreign land.
Download or read book Chadian Diary A Peace Corps Experience written by Norman and Dorothy Kehmeier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American couple exchanges US farm life for Peace Corps adventure near Lake Chad in Chad, Africa, in 1978-1979 during civil post independence turmoil in the African Sahel. A journal of the thirteen months in the Peace Corps preparing for and living in Chad. A description of the habits and the traditions of the Islamic Kanembous of Matafo.
Download or read book A Time That Was written by Philip S. Salisbury and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author worked and vacationed in Liberia and West Africa from 1962-1964 and 1964 respectively. The author kept a diary for most of his stay. This book reveals the day-to-day life of a Peace Corps volunteer as well as the experiences of students and villagers. The experiences are both diverse and unexpected. Reading these diaries results in a fair perspective on the volunteers life and times. Furthermore, it provides many insights into Liberia, Americo-Liberian culture, life up-county, or life in the interior. This book carries the reader from experience to experience. Youll have a hard time setting it down.
Download or read book When the World Calls written by Stanley Meisler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps’s first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler’s engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers’ unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. In the years since, in spite of setbacks, the ethos of the Peace Corps has endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 Volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex—and valued—institutions.
Download or read book Diary of the Ouagadougou Doc written by Milt Kogan M. D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of excerpts from a diary written while serving as a Peace Corps Physician with the United States Peace Corps in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
Download or read book The Peace Corps Volunteer s Handbook written by Travis Hellstrom and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PEACE CORPS MAY BE “THE TOUGHEST JOB YOU’LL EVER LOVE,” BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO LEARN THAT THE HARD WAY. The Peace Corps Volunteer’s Handbook is both your guide and your companion. Learn from the experiences of outstanding former Volunteers, while cataloging your own experiences with the Peace Corps from the very beginning of your service to the end. Designed to be with you each step of the way—from applying to Peace Corps, starting your service, adjusting to your host country, and making your way home again—this handbook combines the best parts of a guidebook with all the creativity of a personal journal. This is the handbook every Peace Corps Volunteer wishes for, something no one has provided before—a chance to set down on paper all the amazing experiences the Peace Corps has to offer, right next to the memories of the Volunteers who came before. What are you waiting for?
Download or read book A Life Inspired written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of autobiographical reminiscences written by about 28 former Peace Corps volumteers.
Download or read book Diary of a Trip to Asia The Peace Corps and the Fulbright Program written by Seth P. Tillman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Dr. Seth Tillman.
Download or read book It Depends written by Kelly Branyik and published by Write with Light Publications LLC. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Depends" is a Peace Corps guide dedicated to present and future volunteers preparing for their first, second, or even third Peace Corps Journey. The title was inspired by the phrase often used by Peace Corps staff when volunteers asked questions about what to expect during their service. The Peace Corps staff always settled on the same answer, "It Depends." This guide draws from past volunteers' individual experiences as well as the author's personal journey and presents real stories, ideas, experiences, and advice on how to make the most of the Peace Corps lifestyle, experience, and journey. The author will take you through the Peace Corps life from start to finish, from considering Peace Corps to closing out your service. This guide is short, informative, fun, and will get any person considering Peace Corps excited to start the adventure and assist current volunteers in finding their next passion in life once their passion for Peace Corps has been completed.
Download or read book Peace Corps Dot Grid Journal written by Henry Powers and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Dot-Grid Journal. This Dot-Grid Journal Is A Convenient Way For Peace Corps Volunteers To Lay Out Schedules In A Comprehensive Way That Will Allow Upcoming Events And Commitments To Be Readily Recognized.
Download or read book Heaven and Hell in the Philippines written by Daniel H. Wieczorek and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in the Philippines from 1985 to 1987 as an agro-forestry specialist. This book is a daily journal describing some of the encounters, experiences, trials and tribulations he went through as he became a part of the culture and daily life of a small farming community in Quirino Province. This book is a transcription of his entire journal - he made a journal entry every day while he was gone. In fact the journal begins on the day that he left his home in Fairbanks, Alaska and ends when he arrived back home in Fairbanks. Because it's a journal, it is written in the first person, there is an abundance of "I did..." and "we did...." Every entry is dated and the expenses for each day are also recorded. Parts of it may be extremely boring and even mundane to you, the reader, but everything that is recorded here was significant in the specific day of life for the volunteer as he did his best to accomplish something that would have a lasting impact on the lives of the local people. The author was older than the average PCV and as such, he had ideas that were a bit different than them, for example, he bought his own water buffalo and set up a large demonstration farm to show the benefits of contour plowing and farming, something which many local people said was impossible for a water buffalo to accomplish. By the time he completed his service, however, every farmer in his small community was doing contour farming, so apparently it was not impossible. This book is recommended for any person who has a dream of becoming, or has been a PCV. If you're one who wants to serve, this book will show you exactly what you might expect to have happen to you at some point in your service as you go through the stages of culture shock, acculturation, acceptance into your community and more. If you're a returned PCV (RPCV) this book will make you recall some of your own trials and tribulations and probably make you laugh about them. Note that this book speaks briefly of some gay sexual encounters. There are, however, no long and drawn out descriptions of these encounters, no graphic sex.
