Interview with Hannah Rogers, May 12, 2021
Project: Peace Corps: COVID-19 Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Hannah Rogers served in China from 2018 to 2020 as an English teacher and was evacuated February of 2020 due to COVID-19. Her site placement was at Lanzhou Gongye Xueyuan (Lanzhou Institute of Technology) in Lanzhou, Gansu where she taught English and non-English majors. Hannah had previous experience teaching university students but gained a new understanding of teaching in the Chinese school system. She developed relationships with her site-mate and other volunteers, her counterpart and other co-workers, Peace Corps staff, and other host country nationals. She also talks about the food in Gansu, her experience with the Chinese language, and her travels. Hannah discusses Peace Corps China’s consolidation and evacuation in early 2020, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic which has greatly adjusted the plans she had for after Peace Corps. She concludes by talking about the permanent closing of the Peace Corps China program in China, and her hopes for the program’s eventual re-opening.Interview Accession
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China (County of service) Peace Corps Volunteer Job: Education Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) 2018-2020 (Date of service) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic (Historical context) Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteer (EPCV) Lanzhou (China) Peace Corps staff Chinese (Language) Lanzhou Institute of TechnologyInterview LC Subject
Peace Corps (U.S.) Peace Corps (U.S.)--China China 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 Volunteers COVID-19 (Disease)Interview Rights
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Rogers, Hannah Interview by Brittany Nickerson. 12 May. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Rogers, H. (2021, May 12). Interview by B. Nickerson. Peace Corps: COVID-19 Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Rogers, Hannah, interview by Brittany Nickerson. May 12, 2021, Peace Corps: COVID-19 Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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