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ALUMNI CORNER Peace Corps Volunteer in Azerbaijan By Carolyn Williams, Class of 1999 I remember waking up one morning in a Soviet concrete apartment building to the sound of the local mosque’s call to prayer. I had to ask myself, is this really my life? Am I really living here? How did I get here? People have many different reasons to join the Peace Corps. I have to admit my reason was mostly selfish. While I looked forward to helping a community and teaching, I was most excited about immersing myself in a totally different culture in a country most Americans have never heard of. A few months after my husband and I were married, my cousin came home from Peace Corps in Chad. We devoured his photographs, and were riveted by his stories. That night, June 24 th , 2006, we went home, found the three unfinished applications we had started over the years and had the “it’s now, or never” conversation. We looked at our lives – at our comfortable apartment, our corporate ladder jobs – and finally submitted our application. A year, three interviews, endless amounts of paperwork and a week of frenzied packing later, on June 24 th , 2007 we were on a plane to the other side of the Earth. I remember a moment on that plane – I looked out the window and saw a foreign land. I panicked. I had an intense feeling that’s hard to explain – it was dread, regret and anxiety mixed with joy, excitement and anticipation. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Azerbaijan I had countless moments just like that. I would get this awed and confused feeling whenever I would leave my house and walk down my street – a street lined in high walls with persimmon and Let’s learn about Africa! Parents, guardians, and alumni, the Eugene IHS 9th grade team needs your help. This year’s annual Africa Celebration for all Eugene IHS 9th grade students will take place on April 22, 2011 at the Wheeler Pavilion on the Lane County Fairgrounds. This event simply couldn’t happen without the generous gifts of time and effort we receive from people like you. (Thanks again to our volunteers from last year!) This year, we need help with the following: booths, supervision/general help, and our panel of judges. If you : * are a part of, or know of, an organization that would like an educational, interactive booth at the event; * have experience traveling, volunteering, or working in Africa and would be willing to staff an educational, interactive booth at the event; or * if you would like to volunteer to be on our panel of judges or recommend a judge for our panel, or just help with supervision/general help; Please contact Wade Powell at powell_w@4j.lane.edu. If you would like to make a monetary donation to help fund the Africa Celebration, please contact Wade Powell at the e-mail address above, or any of our Eugene IHS offices. We’re looking forward to hearing from you soon! 14 pomegranate trees peaking over their tops. I would feel it when I was teaching my students in the dead of winter, wearing gloves and hats because the gas was off in our school and we could see our breaths. The feeling would come when I would put a pizza in our little red oven, a pizza that took five hours to prepare and visits to at least five different shopkeepers in the bazaar. We would feel a collective wave of this unique feeling whenever a group of volunteers were together in one place, sharing and comparing stories by the light of candles and headlamps. It’s a feeling that’s difficult to describe, but so common that I’m sure every Peace Corps volunteer has experienced it. Even though we had to come home after only a year due to circumstances outside our control, I feel like I was able to make a small difference in my community and in my school. Though I know that I made an impact on my community, I know that the biggest change that occurred during my service was within me. I learned that family means so much more than the people who raised me. The host family my husband and I lived with changed from people with whom we could hardly communicate, to people it was heartbreaking to leave. I learned how much I am capable of. My strength and resilience was constantly put to the test – just walking through the bazaar was an adventure where I had to stand my ground when bartering for food, ignore harassment from men and children, and present myself in a culturally appropriate manner. I learned how small the world is and how connections can be formed in spite of cultural, religious, and linguistic differences. As Mary Anne Radmacher said, “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” I am not the same, nor would I ever want to be again.
EUGENE IHS STAFF 2010-2011 Ninth Grade Joshua Hamill SI Geografia Universal Caleb Kostechka Global Literature Kendall Lawless Global Literature Cultural Aesthetics-Art/Drama Jackie Owens Global Literature Christine Pettingill Cultural Aesthetics-Art/Drama Wade Powell Global Health Deon Saraceno Global Geography Global Health Melodee Soczek Global Geography Craig Wiebe FI Geographie Mondiale Tenth Grade Marilyn Curtis Comparative Values & Beliefs Amy Duncan Global Literature & the Arts Rebecca Hammons Global Literature & the Arts Joanne Moorefield Global History Wade Powell Global History Craig Wiebe Global History FI L’histoire Globale Jenelle Youngblood Comparative Values & Beliefs Support Courtney Leonard Head Teacher Marilyn Curtis IB Coordinator Ian Ogden Learning Support 15 Eleventh Grade Joshua Hamill History of the Americas (IB) Christine Pettingill Literature of the Americas (IB) Jessica Schabtach Literature of the Americas (IB) Steve Smith Comparative Political & Economic Systems (IB) Craig Wiebe FI Histoire Des Américas (IB) Kyle Yamada Comparative Political & Economic Systems (IB) History of the Americas (IB) Twelfth Grade Amy Duncan 20 th Century Global Literature (IB) Jocelyn Harley Theory of Knowledge (IB) Caleb Kostechka 20 th Century Global Literature (IB) Courtney Leonard 20 th Century Global History (IB) Joanne Moorefield 20 th Century Global History (IB) Jessica Schabtach 20 th Century Global Literature (IB) Steve Smith 20 th Century Global History (IB) Melodee Soczek Theory of Knowledge (IB) Clerical Peggy Farris Secretary, Eugene IHS @ Sheldon 541-790-6636 Lynne Given Secretary, Eugene IHS @ Churchill 541-790-5225 Sue Martichuski Secretary, Eugene IHS @ South 541-790-8030 Mindy Schifberg Secretary, Eugene IHS @ South 541-790-8030 Marilyn Curtis (curtis_m) Amy Duncan (duncan_a) Peggy Farris (farris) Lynne Given (given) Joshua Hamill (hamill) Rebecca Hammons (hammons_r) Jocelyn Harley (harley_j) Caleb Kostechka (kostechka_c) Eugene IHS staff e-mail addresses 2010-2011 To send an e-mail to any of the addresses below, add: @4j.lane.edu Kendall Lawless (lawless_k) Courtney Leonard (leonard) Sue Martichuski (martichuskis) Joanne Moorefield (moorefield_j) Ian Ogden (ogden_i) Jackie Owens (owens_j) Christine Pettingill (pettingill) Wade Powell (powell_w) EUGENE IHS FACTOID #7: Deon Saraceno (saraceno_d) Jessica Schabtach (schabtach) Mindy Schifberg (schifberg_m) Steve Smith (smith_st) Melodee Soczek (soczek ) Craig Wiebe (wiebe) Kyle Yamada (yamada) Jenelle Youngblood (youngblood) Eugene IHS is proud to announce Whitney Sweet-Merrill, junior at Churchill, as the third recipient of the Eugene IHS Travel Scholarship! She plans to travel with Deon Saraceno this summer to Egypt. What a wonderful opportunity for such a deserving young woman. We look forward to having her share her travel stories with us. Again, our thanks go to Brian O’Kelley, Sara at The Oregon Community Foundation, the scholarship committee, and the applicants. If you would like to contribute to the Alumni Fund for Eugene IHS simply go to the Oregon Community Foundation website at: http://oregoncf.org. Once there you can click on “For Donors” to find out the different ways you can give back to Eugene International High School, then contact the Oregon Community Foundation at (541)431-7099.
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