Family Attractions

The Kieser Family embarks on its first international tour! Tune in to discover all the laughter, the pain, and the suspense!

Arrived safe and sound despite VERY slippery roads!!! Wednesday or Thursday the plan is to go for a drive and cut the family Christmas tree and finish off the holiday ...

... where 3 other volunteers and I have language lessons 8 hours a day, and I love my ingenious, generous, and patient host family. It is certainly an emotional roller coaster - with peaks and valleys several times each day - but the peaks keep getting ...

... too - my sister's friends ask me about America and sometimes practice English with me; I've been able to teach my family important basic health messages (like covering leftovers so flies don't land on them after walking in shit) that they wouldn't have ...

... it's culturally taboo to go outside to the squat latrine at night), and even killing a chicken. Personally, I can't imagine my family or even anyone I know in the US taking on that kind of responsibility for a foreigner with the linguistic and cultural ...

... here should be interpreted as official or unofficial Peace Corps literature or as sanctioned by the Peace Corps. I have chosen to write about my experience online in order to update family and friends; I am earning no money whatsoever from this ...

soooo after a drive thru hills and forests and fields and mountains we arrived the family ranch and it was really amazing! wow! kelly's family had brought the land many years ago and built the lakes and designed and built the houses, they were ...

... when was i leavin? where was i going??? where was my flight to leave.... etc... i explained i was gonna buy a flight and that i had family here that i was gonna stay with, they asked me their address, well i didn't have it, it was on me emails, noe they ...

... is really cool. Additionally newlyweds are blessed with the proverb: "May you have 7 sons and 7 daughters" -- not so great for family planning, but good news on the gender front. What really prompted me to write this, though, besides your asking for ...

... spots in Malaysia . I was really looking forward to meeting the family and we were both excited at the prospect of enjoying some family time after such a long time on the road. Our minibus driver literally dumped us on a street corner before we had chance ...

... to go meet them!! My roomie for the next three weeks is Kristine from Norway. We met eachother about ten minutes before we met our family so everything was completely brand new for me. The way UWP has it set up to meet our families is pretty cool. We ...

... is all somehow making me a better person for it ... I think. So now I go forward with what I believe to be a now neutral karma ... I am still and happy and content ... at peace ... reconnected with all my family and friends ... a brave new future awaits! ...

... lovely and we met his brother who was living in London and now Australia – Roy aswell.  Along with all the extended family, in laws, grandparents, aunts, uncles – there’s no way I can make sense of it on paper!!! We were in ...

... whom we'd been connected through Nancy’s daughter-in-law, Natania. After many emails we arranged to meet Shammi, the family representative, outside Majestic City, a downtown Colombo mall. I know that Nancy and I were excited and a bit nervous about ...

... will probably still have hot water, cowboy up America! Sorry, just had to get something political in this.)  My family dynamic was incredible. I had a grandma who was basically the equivalent of a superhero, three younger brothers who loved ...

... our meals alone and the opportunity to parctice our spanish was limited. We discovered that most of the other students had more traditional family set ups whereas we had a strict timetable of meals and lived in a house where all the rooms were locked. It ...