July 21, 07 First Charla

Yesterday, I observed my first charla in Accha Alta, a small mountain community just outside of Calca. Because it was an unplanned trip and my spanish is terrible, all I really did was hold up posters and play with kids. All of us volunters fell in love with this one particular baby named Lydia. She was adorable. Strangely enough as I was holding a poster up during the presentation, a dog peed on my leg, and I picked up a child who´d made a pee puddle near the weight scale!