Today was a travel day. We went all the way from Accra to Kintampo…it was an eight hour journey over paved and unpaved roads. We didn’t get a chance to see the hospital at all, but we did get to experience our luxurious guesthouse with queen sized beds and single rooms! Our team decided to start our community assessment for our group project tomorrow, and I am also going to try to get my independent project started. We were informed there were emergency medicine residents from Columbia here as well so we are excited to meet fellow American colleagues and get their experiences.

The most interesting story of my day was one the driver – Alex – told us on our long trek from Accra to Kintampo. It was when we first entered the Ashanti kingdom and saw the statue of Yaa Asantewaa. She was an Asante Queen who when the British tried to take over her kingdom was the only one of a tribe of elders (that was mostly men) to stand up for her kind and her country! Here's a famous quote:

"If you, the men of Asante, will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields." She is one of my newest inspirations!

I can't wait to meet the doctors at Kintampo tomorrow to find more muses!

PS - the internet is slow and doesn't let me upload pictures...I have one of Yaa Asantewaa...but for now just trust me she's cool, or google her!