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Community Perspective

Dan Starken, Peace Corps Volunteer
in Tonga, South Pacific

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• Weeklong services mourn Peace Corps death (3/15/06)
• Religion plays vital role in Tongan culture (3/8/06)
• Expectations from adults; fun with kids (2/1/06)
• Tongans enjoy twice-a-day church feasts (1/25/06)
• Thanksgiving, volleyball and centipedes in Tonga (1/11/06)

  
  2005

• Volunteer continues to describe life at Peace Corps site (1221/05)
• Volunteer assigned to his two-year site (12/7/05)
• More observations from Peace Corps trainee (9/21/05)
• Volunteer reflects on homestay in Tonga (9/14/05)
• Describing daily life in a Tongan village home (8/31/05)
• Trainee takes eventful boat, car rides in Tonga (8/24/05)
• Learning Tongan culture via village homestays (8/3/05)
• PAHS grad joins Peace Corps, goes to Tonga (7/13/05)

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