Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2017-033
Patricia Matisz Smith served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia from 1973 to 1975 as a science teacher. She attended training in-country at Tuaran with a group of 14 teachers. Smith was stationed in Kota Kinabalu in the state of Sabah. She was assigned to Sekolah Menengah Kerajaan Likas, a government high school in the sub-district of Likas. Smith primarily taught biology and physics, but filled in on English and other subjects too. In her interview, she describes the challenges of teaching within a school modeled on the British educational system, and how she enjoyed traveling to other nearby countries on school breaks. Interviewed and recorded by Ivan C. Browning, February 12, 2017. 1 digital file.