August 17, 2003 - Pacific World: We were using Palauan English until the Peace Corps came, and then it really improved.

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We were using Palauan English until the Peace Corps came, and then it really improved.



We were using Palauan English until the Peace Corps came, and then it really improved.

Americans in Palau

“The contract teachers usually came with families. Then they’d stay there for two years. It really improved things. Every Christmas, we would get a present from the school. It was a rectangular box with a red cross on it, probably from the Red Cross. It had tooth paste, toothbrush, pencils, rulers, all that kind of stuff, and it was a big thing you expected on Christmas.

“That is when I was going to school— my six years in Airai. We had the first Peace Corps volunteer program. In those days we just used everything and learned everything American. Even the flags: we had American flags during TTPI time, until we became separate from them and wrote our own constitution. In those days we raised American flags. School was taught in English, but it was not a really good English. We were using Palauan English until the Peace Corps came, and then it really improved."



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