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"Hotel" courtyard
View from breakfast at the hotel
Airport
Ghana Highway
Tires for sale
Typical street side
My bedroom in Capecoast
My homestay's puppy
View of the hallway to rooms and bathroom
View of kitchen from the outside
Dining room
Kitchen
Bathroom sink
Toilet
Shower room
The fruit bowl my family provided for me
Fried plantains I heloed cook, with tomato fish stew
Rinsing plantains before they go into the oil
Letting the plantains fry
Slicing plantains to be fried
Slicing plantains
Anotherview of my dirty room
A view of Kotocraba, the big town market
Courtyard where children play soccer
Beach piglets
Outside view of Cape Coast castle
The sagness in the beauty of the beach... covered in trash
impact project day
Building a commnity center
More building. This is where we dumped the dirt that we collected from down the hill and c
Very happy villager
House sister
Stormy walk to work
Our June Intern group with the lovely Kofi, our project coordinator and tour guide all in
Ball and chain that was found in the Slave RIver in 2005
Touching the water of Slave River. Behind the bamboos tress in the right of this image is
Our tour guide splashing the water where the slaves took their last bath
Slave River
After the slaves long journey by foot, they took their last bath here before they were to
Names of local cheifs who have passed away
Ghana's first president
More cheifs who have passed away
The walk to the Slave River
A place where people who visited the Slave River can sign once they have returned
This is, of course, MLK
Inside the slave memorial walls were paintings of famous African Americans
The chains being broken, signifying freedom to all
Notice the now broken chains on the man painted on the door.
My view for lunch
Main stairway at Cape Coast Castle
This was an entrance to the under ground tunnel where slaves were smuggled. It is now bloc
Ghanaian Sheild
More views form lunch
The many fishing boats off of the coast near the Castle
The view of my walk home
The dorr of no return wehre slaves would say goodbye to anything they may have had in life
A local making is very own fishing net
The line of cannons with Cape Coast in the background
Main staircase
Charli sanding on a peer at the castle
Opening in the Jungle
My nursing friends should all be very knowledgable on the use of this drug!
Hiking up to the canopy walkways
Me and Charli getting ready to run through the tree tops
The view near the walkway me and Chali sprinted across
Stef completeing her wlak across 1 of 7 very narrow and very shaky canopy bridges
According to our guide, these bridges can hold the weight of two, yes two elephants... I w
The view of how narrow the boards were to walk on. Not to mention they wobble, so it was v
View into the dense jungle
Yes.. It is a live crocodile
He was mad that he did not get pet
Stingless Bee Center... Prettiest place in Ghana!
Stingless bees
The Croc I pet
Height of the canopy walkway... We were above the tree line
Charli learning how to Batik dye fabric
Hungry croc
Me making my Batik fabric
My custome made nurses uniform
Josh doing Batik as well
Morning ritual with Petra
Typical pre-school photoshoot
The group at our day hike in the Kakum forrest
Stingless bee hives
More Batik
The celebration of a funeral parading in the streets
Danielle coloring her Batik fabric
Our "Croc Trainer" who also doubles as a chef at Hans Cottage....
Cocoa fruit
More bees
Refreshments after our hike at Kakum
The finished product of my Batik fabric!
Pink pineapple
More of Charli doing Batik
My new best friend
Theatrice Batik dying
The family cooking dinner together
Witches pot we used to wash our fabric once we were finished
Charli and the croc
Family cooking again
Canopy walkway
Bees, butterflies, and prayingmantus all in one
Bee in flight
Coloring my fabric
Theatrice making her design with a wax stamp
Danielle finishing her wax design
Rinsing off the wax for the final step
Coloring the fabric
Funeral parade
More of Petras photoshoot
Cool tree roots
Preparing the cocoa seeds
My croc friend
A little of home here in Ghana
Zhi Xuan making his was design
Giant leaves that I found amusing
Butterflies and a pretty plant
Stray kittens at my homestay
Petra observing Auntie Maggie
Our instructor teaching us the ways of Batik dying
He was sad that I was leaving him
Cool lizards here in Ghana
Action shot of Charli
My sick puppy friend
The girls
The girls at Oasis celebrating birthdays and the end of interns trips
A night of dancing at Oasis
Very..Very confused
I thought we were finished with the run... I was wrong
Preparing to sink
"Bring it arounndd town"
I was confused as to what he was trying to teach me
Charli standing!
Charli mastering her body boarding
We are naturals...
Not quite
Practicing... much easier on solid ground
We had to master body boarding first... check!
Finally standing... sort of
Telling us we must run before we surf... I didn't sign up for cardio
Station for urine analysis
Center table for Sickle Cell and Malaria identification. This is also where the doctor rec
The centrifuge we use along side a broken tile peice used for Typhoid screening and blood
The court yard to OLGH with the Maternity Ward in the background
Blood screening station
The entrance to the main building and administrative offices
The walkway to the gate entrance with the school chapel at the top of the hill
The station for blood typing/crossmatching, HIV/Hepatitis/syphilis/typhoid screening, and
Main station in the delivery room at the maternity ward. These are all their essential too
Standard conditions for mothers and their babies at the maternity ward
Me and Ebo, a fellow student who taught me everything he knows during my 6 weeks at the la
The group of all the main guys I have worked with for 6 weeks
Roger and I, he is the one who taught me all about different cells found in urine, and how
The staining station at the lab
The office at the Mat. Ward. The delivery room is to the left, seperated by a thin blue cu
the Main desk in the lab
Thankfully since the strike the ward has been slow, but normally many mothers would reside
Outside of the Mat. Ward
Main supplies at the Mat. Ward
Check-in desk for the lab
Typlical bed at the Mat. Ward
The waiting room at the lab, VERY empty due to the strike. It is normally packed with peop
Inside the delivery room.Mothers deliver within 3 feet of each other, and the blue curtain
The table where blood is taken for donation
Another room at the Mat. Ward
William hard at work
Another Mat. room. The buckets on the ground are what the women use for a rest room.
Where newborns are weighed cleaned and then placed after delivery