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Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand by : Warner Miller Montgomery
Download or read book Memoirs of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand written by Warner Miller Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay discussing training for the Peace Corps in Michigan, impressions of local customs in Thailand and his interaction with the Thai police after a car accident that injured a pedestrian.
Book Synopsis The Making of a Peace Corps Volunteer by : Roger O. Parent
Download or read book The Making of a Peace Corps Volunteer written by Roger O. Parent and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of growing up in a French Acadian Village in Maine and of two years in Peace Corps in Thailand's first group. Should be read by persons interested in Peace Corps, especially those wishing to serve.
Book Synopsis Come Sit Next to Me by : Robert O’Quinn
Download or read book Come Sit Next to Me written by Robert O’Quinn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come Sit Next to Me takes the reader on the journey of a lifetime, directly to the ancient Silk Road of Central Asia. Join the author during every stage of preparation, experience every culture shock, and gain a real sense of what isolation can feel like living in a traditional, rural Muslim community. Robert OQuinns style of writing draws the reader into the narrative with the authors descriptive prose and detailed accounts. His job was to find a way to teach English in a mountain village located next to the border of China. The winters were long and brutal, and the cultural challenges were endless, but he would ultimately learn the true essence of Kyrgyz hospitality.
Book Synopsis Fighting Malaria on the River Kwai by : Jonathan R.C. Green
Download or read book Fighting Malaria on the River Kwai written by Jonathan R.C. Green and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, 12,000 Allied prisoners of war died while constructing a bridge over the river Kwai in western Thailand, and then a railway through the thick jungles of the Kwai Valley all the way to Burma. Decades later, during the Vietnam War, Jonathan R.C. Green enlisted as a medic in the U.S. Army, expecting to take care of wounded Americans and Asians, but was kept in a Stateside assignment instead, much to his frustration. So, shortly before his enlistment expired, he applied for the Peace Corps and asked to serve in Southeast Asia. Six weeks after leaving the Army, he arrived in Thailand as a Peace Corps Volunteer. His job assignment was to fight malaria by controlling the mosquito populations in remote jungle villages in the valley of the infamous River Kwai. Besides the hazards posed by snakes, scorpions and centipedes in the jungle, he ran the risk of contracting malaria, dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases, while suffering severe bouts of dysentery. He often had to live on a monotonous diet of rice, bamboo shoots and hot sauce three times a day, with the only reasonably safe drinking water coming from rain barrels teeming with mosquito larvae. While becoming accustomed to a rugged lifestyle in the jungle, he had to quickly learn a complex language and exotic culture. An inadvertent misstep in manners could have damaged his credibility, and hence the outcome of his undertaking, as badly as catching the disease he was supposed to be fighting.
Book Synopsis War of Hearts and Minds by : James Jouppi
Download or read book War of Hearts and Minds written by James Jouppi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the best of conditions, the Peace Corps experience is somewhat like being parachuted into a human drama unfolding in a different culture. The volunteer may struggle mightily to be understood, but his attempts can be for naught if he misunderstands the framework of his role. Unfortunately, in spite of Peace Corps training, the only way a Peace Corps volunteer can understand the framework of his or her Peace Corps role is to live inside it, or even, as in the case of author James Jouppi, return to the site where he was stationed without the trappings of Peace Corps. In August of 1971, Jouppi arrived in Thailand as part of Peace Corps Thailand Group 38, a civil engineering group slated to work in the most communist-sensitive and most poverty-stricken areas of Thailand for Thailands Community Development Department. In War of Hearts and Minds, he documents the challenges of working inside the Peace Corps system, both prior to his work areas being designated red and after that time as well, before moving on to his attempts to work outside the Peace Corps system. Augmented with maps, photographs, and letters, War of Hearts and Minds offers a compelling look into both the politics of Nixon-era America and that of staunchly anti-communist Thailand as Thailand fought a shadow war adjoining the one that was raging in Vietnam and Laos. In his final chapters, Jouppi follows threads from Thailand as they unfold in American culture before providing insights for possible strategies in the future which could bring the goal of worldwide peace and justice closer to frution.
Book Synopsis The Peace Corps welcomes you to Thailand by : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Download or read book The Peace Corps welcomes you to Thailand written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Breathing the Same Air: A Peace Corps Romance by : Gerry Christmas
Download or read book Breathing the Same Air: A Peace Corps Romance written by Gerry Christmas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Gerry Christmas is one of "Kennedy's Children," an idealist who answered the call to join the Peace Corps not once but twice. In Breathing the Same Air, a gritty memoir of love and loss, he narrates his volunteer experiences in both Thailand and Samoa. From the sultry alleys of Bangkok to the serpentine paths of his Polynesian island, Christmas explores new frontiers of mind, body, and spirit. He shares stories from cross-cultural miscues and screw-ups to Peace Corps politics and squabbles. He also ventures into the classroom where he talks about his Thai and Samoan students who effuse a certain candor, curiosity, and charm. And he narrates pursuing Aied, his long-lost love, and the difficult decision to return to the United States. As Christmas looks back on his Peace Corps days, he is mindful of President Kennedy's words: "... we all inhabit this small planet. We all cherish our children's futures. We all breathe the same air. And we are all mortal."
Download or read book Land of Smiles written by A Maytree and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Bush and Iraq, there was Nixon and Vietnam. It's 1969. The Vietnam War has turned into a meat grinder, 250,000 protesters are marching on Washington to confront a defiant President Nixon holed up in the White House, and Alden Maytree, fresh out of Catholic seminary, has passed his pre-induction physical. Just before Uncle Sam drafts him, he gets a surprise call. Instead of killing commies in Vietnam, how about spending two years next door in exotic Thailand, the "Land of Smiles," as a Peace Corps Volunteer? But when he arrives in Bangkok, he discovers he can't escape the war and clashes with Peace Corps, the U.S. Embassy and the CIA. Land of Smiles is a memoir of one young man's coming of age during the Boomer generation's war-and the painful lessons he and America both learn as they try to save the world.
Download or read book Peace Corps written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace Corps written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thailand 28, Report by : Peace Corps (U.S.). Thailand Training Office
Download or read book Thailand 28, Report written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Thailand Training Office and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Turkish Delight: Memoirs of a Peace Corps Volunteer by : Patricia Morgan
Download or read book Turkish Delight: Memoirs of a Peace Corps Volunteer written by Patricia Morgan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to be a Peace Corps Volunteer? Idealism? Adaptability? Perseverance? I thought I had what it took when I joined the Peace Corps in 1964 until I came face to face with the reality of living and teaching in Anatolia, Turkey. From my first experience with Turkish cuisine to my attempts to emulate America recipes, from my first meetings with Turks to my final good-byes, these forty-five short stories highlight the ups and downs of a fresh-out-of-college, know-it-all female Volunteer attempting to find her place in the conservative town of Konya, Turkey. Patricia has lived and worked in Turkey, Italy, and South Korea. She now resides in Iowa, where she shares a house with an assortment of adults, cats, and the occasional eight-year-old. Seeds of Change was Patricia Morgan's first novel and Turkish Delight is her first collection of memoir stories.
Download or read book I Am Farang written by Amy Jo McGarry and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy McGarry details her experience living in Thailand as a foreigner while serving in the Peace Corps.
Book Synopsis Diary of a Trip to Asia: The Peace Corps and the Fulbright Program by : Seth P. Tillman
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.
Book Synopsis Peace Corps in the Far East by : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Download or read book Peace Corps in the Far East written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Good Morning, Mr. Paul by : H. Paul Burghdorf
Download or read book Good Morning, Mr. Paul written by H. Paul Burghdorf and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Morning, Mr. Paul is a memoir of a young Peace Corps volunteer following President John F. Kennedys challenge to serve his country by serving others between 1963 and 1965. While Mr. Paul is coaching Indonesian athletes for the 1964 Olympic Games and teaching at the University of Sriwidjaja, his idealistic desire to serve is tempered when he faces resistance and threats from the communists fomenting civil unrest at that time in Indonesias history. The reader will also live with Mr. Paul as he experiences cultural adjustments, romance, embarrassing surprises, humorous events, and life-and-death situations as he struggles to fulfill his commitment to the Peace Corps, the Indonesian people, and himself. Perhaps more significantly, Good Morning, Mr. Paul is about a young American with a limited world view, learning that people are far more important than things; that the measure of a man, even an athlete, lies not in his physical strength but in his courage to continue when there seems little hope; that there is a higher calling to serve others, rather than to be served; that faith is real.
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.
