October 18, 2012 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Training on Campus in the U.S. of A.

Oct 18 2012

This is a short piece on Training that Marian Beil and I published years ago on our www.peacecorpswriters.org site. It is another view on Training, this time on a college campus. John Krauskopf (Iran 1965-67) served as a Peace Corps Volunteer for two year in Ahwaz, the provincial capital of the province of Khuzistan, part of the Mesopotamian Delta. He taught English in a boy’s high school, ran a language enrichment program, and organized English instruction for more than 400 teachers and staff of the provincial office of education. Later he worked as a Peace Corps Trainer for two Iran TEFL programs, in the U.S. and Iran. — J. C. • Tequila and Temblors by John Krauskopf (Iran 1965–67) PEACE CORPS TRAINING was intensive and stressful. Superficially, it seemed a lot like the college culture most of us had recently left. Walking around the University of Texas campus in Austin had a . . .

Joanna Luloff (Sri Lanka 1996-98) to Read at Harvard Book Store

Oct 18 2012

Joanna Luloff (Sri Lanka 1996-98) will be reading from her interwoven collection of stories The Beach at Galle Road at the Harvard Book Store on Tuesday, October 23. This is her first book. Joanna Luloff received her BA from Vassar College and her MFA from Emerson College, and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. Her fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, Confrontation Magazine, and New South. The basic theme of this book, which is being published this month by Algonquin Books, is that when the rumors of civil war between the ruling Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector of Sri Lanka reach those who live in the south, somehow it seems not to be happening in their own country. At least not until Janaki’s sister, Lakshmi, now a refugee whose husband has disappeared, comes back to live with her family. And . . .

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