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Peace Corp Service
After graduation, she started work for an educational television station in Boston only to interrupt her career in the performing arts for a tour as a Peace Corps worker in Malaysia. But as Pali explains it. the career was never really sidetracked.
Pali taught English and worked in a maternity-child health clinic in a very, very poor section of Malaysia, providing mothers with information on nutrition. She traveled to the jungles of Borneo and stayed with tribes of head hunters who were making their first few tentative steps into the 20th century. “They don’t take heads anymore." she added reassuringly.
“I learned so much more than I gave...The most interesting thing is that children are the same everywhere." Pali said. She could speak a little of the head hunters' language but her primary means of communication with the children of the tribe was through song and dance. Wearing the traditional Malaysian sari, she romped and splashed with the kids in jungle rivers and pools, everyone in the gang laughing and shrieking in deligh) over new found friends, according to Pali. “1 taught them songs and they showed me their songs and dances and how to play their drums. We really couldn't understand each other's words but we communicated through the language of music and dance. It was one of the most profound experiences in my life. I learned that human beings can connect to each other in a place beyond the intellect—in
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