Interview with Juliet Sorensen, December 24, 2020
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Juliet Sorensen served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a Maternal and Child Health program in Tinzouline, Morocco from 1995-1997. She discusses conducting lessons on varied health-related topics in women’s homes, teaching dental hygiene to elementary school children, participating in a girls' travel project, and helping get funding to build latrines in a local elementary school. She opines that women’s lives in rural Morocco were very separate from men and anything but equal when she lived there. She talks about cultural learning developing over time and concludes that the most important impact of her Peace Corps service was the personal connections she made.Interview Accession
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Peace Corps (U.S.) Peace Corps (U.S.)--Morocco Morocco Acculturation Communication and culture Culture Culture shock Intercultural communication Interpersonal communication and culture Interpersonal relations Interpersonal relations and culture Language and culture Language and languages Lifestyles Manners and customs Voluntarism VolunteersInterview Rights
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Sorensen, Juliet Interview by Evelyn Ganzglass. 24 Dec. 2020. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Sorensen, J. (2020, December 24). Interview by E. Ganzglass. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Sorensen, Juliet, interview by Evelyn Ganzglass. December 24, 2020, Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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