Reading in Shaullo

Every two years we receive the visit of the members of the Board of Directors of Heart Links Canada - caring people, but first and foremost friends interested in the ways and walks of the Network.

This year four friends from Heart Links had come. With them we went on 12th November to the Rural Library in Shaullo Chico, at the foot of the apu Qayaqpuma. There the friends of the APU Cultural Association had gathered early in the morning to teach the children of the community how to prepare the traditional buns, dolls and decorations made with bread dough, typical in Cajamarca in the month of November.

In the afternoon we gathered at the local library. Rumi Mires delighted us with a story by the Brothers Grimm, one of those half-long and complicated ones, The Frog King or Iron Henry.

The children surprised us with their extraordinary capacity to understand this complicated text, with their good memory and their ability to retell the same story in their own words. Then we set about making our little jumping toads in origami; some of them managed to jump with great agility into the pit of stones and a cloth that we had "built" on the floor of the library.

To end this beautiful afternoon, the children shared with us their buns in a "joijona".

Thanks to all who made this beautiful activity possible.