  So, i'm here in Bhimavaram, a town way way way out in the country, a 9 hour train ride from Hyderabad and it's like losing touch with the rest of the world. It's really hard to get on the internet bc they only have dial-up and it's soooo slow and this is the doctor's computer...
Mine wouldn't take that cable. blah. Bhimavaram is so different from anything i have ever seen. Lots of palm trees and open land with these fields full of water where they grow rice, and there's water buffalo and pigs and chickens and goats and cows all over the place. The traffic here is still completely crazy. The people extremely poor... When i got out of the train and the doctor picked me up at the station, we were walking out and there were all these people selling stuff and entertaining... well one of them was this man with a baby (about 2 1/2 or 3) and a girl (about 10). Anyway, he was holding the baby and the baby was arching his back over the man's arms (the baby was doing it on his own) and the man then picked him up and started yelling something.
The Dr. told me they put on a show that consists of the man throwing the little boy up in the air and making him stand on his hands and stuff like that, while the girl also dances... anyway, things are going incredibly well. The doctor is so wonderful and he just seems so wise and experienced and he's very warm and friendly. He's so excited that I'm here and I already have so many projects that i will be working on. I'm making a documentary of the Trust, it's mission, accomplishments, and work, and another training video for the teachers at one of the model classrooms run by the trust (for little kids 3-7).
Then with photography I have this great project that I'm starting that will hopefully impact the community - it's a project that brings forth the ideas of respect, gender equality, equality in general among human beings, and to some extent will defy the caste system but in a quiet way, softly, just trying to push them without too many words. I will also be making posters of photographs with important messages to put up in the community, and for this we will hopefully have the help of the printing press nearby.
OK but anyway, i have to take off now. now sure when i will write again, but i will try to do so soon. In any case, i'll be making my own updates on my computer and i'll try to send them if i can at some point. Love to all, charlie 
