Should be studying...

...but I'm too excited about being done with school, so I'll post instead.

I just finished my final for medical social work, my favorite class this semester. It was the one with the hilarious professor, remember? I really enjoyed studying for that class. I'm sad that it's over. =( Wanna learn some things that I learned in the class? In no particular order:

1) 50% of Accra and 30% of Ghana's rural population has "good drinking water."

2) "If you go to central Accra, make sure your stomach is empty. If your stomach goes on riot, you are finished!" -Professor Kodjo on lack of public restrooms in urban Ghana.

3)20% of Ghana's population lives on less than $1 a day. About 87% of Africa lives on less than $2 a day.

4) On maternal mortality: My Prof went to Switzerland hospital and asked for their maternal mortality records and the nurse looked at him like he was crazy. "This is a hospital," she said "we haven't had a maternal mortality incident in ten years." The prof returns to Ghana and incidentally, the newspaper headline read "K'bu hospital - no maternal mortality in three months!"

5) Ghana's contraceptive prevalence rate is 15%

6) In 2005, 40% of Botswana's pregnant women were living with HIV/AIDS

7) Zimbabwe's average life-span has decreased from 55 y.o. to 35 y.o. due to HIV/AIDS.

Ok. i learned a looot more than just those 7 points, and would love to share. But I gotta go study. But man, what an awesome class.

Here's a picture of me with Professor Kodjo

Here are some of my classmates from med socialwk. Me n the guy on the side weren't ready for the picture, but this is the only group photo where the majority of my friends looked ready for a "snap," as they call it. They looked kind of funny and unprepared in the other shots. I was actually all ready to take the photo. The camera guy said "ok! 1....2...." And Gad, the guy who is looking at me turns and says "Do you have a boyfriend?" "Hah! Fat chance, Gad." *snap!*

Ok i need to study. O, but good news! My class in which i have a final tomorrow was changed back to p/np! I'm so relieved because there is a buttload of information to learn. I don't feel like studying at all since the class doesn't count for anything at all. But I should maybe attempt to study and pass the class.

PS: update on water. It's back! Came back today after my exam. Phew. "It was SERIOUS, oh" as the Ghanaians say.