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A Small Key Opens Big Doors : Volume Three: The Heart of Eurasia
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Jay.
- Series:
- Peace Corps at 50
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Europe, Eastern--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Asia, Central--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Europe, Eastern--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers.
- Volunteers--Developing countries--Anecdotes.
- Peace Corps (U.S.).
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Asia, Central--Anecdotes.
- Local Subjects:
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Europe, Eastern--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Asia, Central--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Europe, Eastern--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (405 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Small Key Opens Big Doors
- Peace Corps @ 50.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Travelers' Tales, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Cold War officially ended in 1991 and opened a world of fresh opportunities for the Peace Corps. The fact that PCVs could move seamlessly into a constellation of states that once comprised the USSR is a testament to the flexibility and durability of the organization. All Peace Corps needs is an invitation. Volunteers are always ready to step up, learn a new language, learn some new skills, and then go to work in unfamiliar lands.Of the 40 stories in this volume, some reach back to early Peace Corps years in Iran and Turkey. Others engage with the newness of democratic freedoms, drawing bac
- Contents:
- Series Preface; Foreword: Thirty Days That Built the Peace Corps; Introduction; Part I: On Our Way...And Back Again; September 12th; Peace Corps Expectations; Two Years of Days; A Carrot Cake in a Revolution; After Thirty-Seven Years; Back in the USSR; The Dead Pig; Returning to Macedonia; Images of Turkey; Taking Pictures in Central Asia; Part II: Why Are We Here?; The Other Bulgaria; Mongolia's First City Park; Running; An Unexpected Turn; Smokestack Songs; The Motherland; The Distance to Doubt: From Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan; Can We Pass Through Latvia, Please?; My Picture on a Plate
- Soul MatesPart III: Getting through the Days; Visit to Karkamish; Mushroom Hunters; The Other Side; The Eastern Regional; Swearing In; Babushka and Chickens; The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round; Trip to Akjakent; Champ; A Convergence of Angles; Thanksgiving in Turkey; The Fourth of July; The Art of Losing Things; One Steppe at a Time; Homecoming; Part IV: Close Encounters; I Love Lucy Moment; Boss Visa; Cowards Die a Thousand Deaths; Unarmed Man; Two Tongues; On the Rails; Stuck; A Camel's Revenge; Caroline; Fiesta!; Picnic Culture; Losing Veronica; Bakhshesh and the Western Psyche
- Part V: Sustainable PeaceThe Power of Tradition-The Peril of Exclusion; Acknowledgements; About the Editor
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781609520496
- 1609520491
- OCLC:
- 864007311
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