Hello! I fell behind on my travel diaries last week. Oops! I’ll get them posted soon though!
In the meantime I just wanted to give a little update! On the weekend Caro & I took a tro-tro into the downtown portion of Takoradi called Market Circle. It is a very busy area! There is a lot of traffic and people but it is fun to walk around and see the little stands set up selling fresh fruit, vegetables, and fish. We bought fabric that our friend Georgina is going to use to make some dresses and skirts for us. We also ended up getting our hair braided! It took 5 hours to complete but it was worth it!
I stayed at the office today and worked on a presentation that I am doing next week on STI’s and malaria at a local junior high school. Tomorrow and Wednesday I will be going to the clinic in Shama. I am going back to the maternity site this week at the clinic. I was at the general health site last week. I am just going to keep rotating between the two that way I can learn and see as much as possible! I also officially own a nursing dress! All of the nurses I have seen here so far wear beige or white dresses. My host mom, Alice is a nurse and I always see her in her beautiful white dress in the morning so I decided to have one made to match hers. It is super cute! I might even try to wear it to work when I go back home!
This coming weekend is our QPID midsummer retreat! All 5 of us will be going to Cape Coast for the weekend. We have to do a bit of work such as going over our midsummer report that will be sent out to family and QPID sponsors as well as our goals for the rest of the summer. We are also going to do some exploring! We are planning to go to Elmina Castle which is where gold and slave trade was carried out many moons ago by the Portuguese. This castle was built in 1482! I’ll attach a link with all of the history about it http://www.castles.nl/gh/em/em.html We will also be going to Kakum where we will see wildlife! Yay! Its only 4 days away!
Well that’s all for now!
I’ll post again soon!
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