Peace Corps Stories: The Unofficial Podcast
1) Episode 22 - Michelle Obama and the Soviet YMCA
There are many ways to learn about the local culture as a Peace Corps volunteer, but often the best lessons happen by accident rather than by design. In this episode we hear two stories out of the Ukr...Show More
2) Episode 21 - Circus of Love
Shawna Miller finds much more than love when the circus comes to her little Honduran town.
3) Episode 20 - The Mutt And The Machete
Pets and animals tend to play outsize roles for Peace Corps Volunteers. As companions who, like us, don’t speak the local language, they can make the experience a lot easier. For Helen Alesbury, her d...Show More
4) Episode 19 - The Chinese Sushi Icebreaker
At some point, every volunteer finds themselves too far from a bathroom at the time they need it most. For Denver Governor, that moment turned out to be one of the most important.
5) Episode 18 - A Shakespearean Crime in Zimbabwe
Bob Nolan considers what “justice” means when confronting one of his students and friends in Zimbabwe.
6) Episode 17 - Guyanese Fish Flop
All it took was a fish and a flip flop for Gabriella Miyares to find common ground with her host mother in Guyana.
7) Episode 16 - The Watermelon Coup
Kevin Kwok remembers his gardening efforts in Mali, cut short by a military coup in 2012 that sent him home early.
8) Episode 15 - Peter's $#!{{? Day
Peter Clark (Kyryzstan, 2009-2010) recalls a challenging day on the playground early in his service, and we take a look back at the scatological memories that defined his service as emcee of the Peace...Show More
9) Episode 14 - A Gambian Funeral
Ryan Smith (The Gambia, 2007-2009) sees how a community deals with death during his first months in the Peace Corps.
10) Episode 13 - Sometimes you just have to vomit
Julie Behrens (Honduras, 2004-2006) takes her first work trip and almost makes it home in one piece.