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Friends of Tonga Gets Me Started

Friends of Tonga, a new organization by and for Peace Corps Volunteers who've served in Tonga, spotlighted me as their first monthly profile (Thank you, Friends of Tonga!), and here's the link: https://www.friendsoftonga.org/cpages/tinamartin/5c8bcffa68621304561abf1a As they say, I'm a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) from Group 5. I served from 1970-1971, in Ha’ateiho, Tongatapu where I taught at ‘Atele Si’i and at the Fasi and ‘Atele Teacher’s Retraining Center. After Tonga, I used my Peace Corps adjustment allowance and traveled to Spain, where I stayed a little over a year, teaching at Mangold Institute in Madrid. After returning to San Francisco for nine months, I  taught at a girls’ lycee in Medea, Algeria for two years, 1974-76 and then returned to San Francisco, where I earned my MA in linguistics, got married, and had a baby (who will be 40 this weekend!). In 2008, I returned to Tonga for the coronation of he king and to see my village after ...