Picture Time!

Doing my godmotherly duties and holding the baby. Who was sound asleep until the padre poured cold water on his head.

Segundo, Yadira, Baby Randy, Me, and Alex (the godfather). He was always apart in all the pictures.

The formal picture. I'm the only one smiling, notice?

Me with ANDY YAIPEN from GRUPO CINCO!!! This is like getting your picture taken with NSYNC back in the day. They came to my site right after the anniversary. So now I have seen both Hermanos Yaipen and Grupo Cinco in my site.. sweet!

My Health Promoters! Not all of them finished, but here they are, with Anna (to the right of the banner) and Humberto (sitting in the middle) from Viviendo en Positivo from Chiclayo.

Employing "non-formal education techniques" to show how HIV works in the body to destroy your immune system. Thank you Victor and Yilda for volunteering!

My Community Diagnostic presentation. Of the people you can see, two are relatives and one is my AMAZING site mate Nicole. My socio told me I was "toda congresista" because I was dressed up.

Me and my friend Yilda. She really helps lift my spirits when I'm wondering what the heck I'm doing here. She's bound to do great things in this world! :-)

CARAMELO!! This was when he was newly adopted, so he was rather mangey still. He's been eating better and plays with me so he's happy and now, even without treatment (or a bath! I'm a bad doggy mommy) his mange is clearing up. I thought he looked like a CowTail (the candy) but I couldn't call him that, because that would just be weird.. and worse in Spanish (Cola de Vaca) so I decided on Caramelo, or caramel in Spanish. But here it also means any small candy, so they were still confused. Oh well. He's a cutey. And follows me EVERYWHERE! even into the school director's office and to the Combi stop!

Health Promoters Graduation. These aren't all of them, just the ones that didn't get perfect attendance.. haha. In the back row with me are the town Governor and Ana. I was really sick that day and had a bad fever. Still had to give speeches and smile though!

Yilda and I helped Nicole with an HIV charla she did with the women in a rural part of her site. The woman was so gung-ho about getting the condom ALL the way down the banana that the banana popped out of my hands and went flying.

Pretty good save though, and all the women thought it was hysterical. I had previously mentioned that I really like giving charlas about condom use, because it really empowers women and gives the information they can teach their daughters and granddaughters and thereby is empowering generations of women. So it was even better, when I was so "excited" about doing a condom demonstration that I couldn't hold on to it.

Peru 13 and our counterparts at our Project Design and Management conference. See if you can spot my forehead! My socio is the third from the left kneeling and my boss is the woman in the orange shirt on the right.

My nephew/godson, Randy, bathing and enjoying the water

Despite having a ton of plastic balls to play with, Randy decided that a carrot makes a good toy and that he wanted to share it with me :)

More of Randy bathing. It's hysterical how he jumps up when the water drips down his face! *Naked Baby Alert*