Last Days in Accra My last day of work was on the friday and I was determined to make it the best i could possibly make it. It turned out the matron who i was shown to on the first day and who i regularly talked with was not in, but i wasnt going to leave without achieving what i wanted most- to go into surgery. I worked in the morning, the normal routine of weighing babies and their mothers and taking blood pressure. I had little to do but watch and keep the babies amused on the couch. When [View Full Entry]

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Still going strong So it's been roughly over a week since i last wrote but the last attempt was a bit sarce so i thought id dedicate some time to it. Starting with last weekend, Alli and I decided to get out of the house and out into Accra the big capital city. For refernce we looked at a 10 year old map in our lounge although not alot of help we tried to guesstimate where we should be heading. When we headed to the taxi rank however Accra wasn't an exact enough location apparently and the only town name [View Full Entry]

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Monday - Friday Well monday was the first working day here. As everyone else went to there school i was taken to Alpha Medical Centre. I met with Matron Rose, i couldn't work out whether she was pleased to see me or not?! I felt quite bad saying that i wasn't trained in anything and that i didnt know how to take someone's bp without an electric machine lol. She showed me round the hospital, an outside waiting room, a tiny lab, one treatment room, 3 wards with 11 beds and what they call a maternity ward is rele made up [View Full Entry]

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Gap Year 2009- Ghana Hi, this is the beginning then of this mad adventure. We flew 6 hours with personal entertainment which was a surprise. Flying into Accra there was a storm which was unusal as it's their dry season and they hadnt had rain in 2 months. It still seemed culturally different in the dark, we had our first drink in a very loud sports bar "verbs". The american music was blasting out of the speakers whilst everyone was dancing to the beat - that's when i truly felt like a white person lol. We tasted some ultra spicy [View Full Entry]

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