Getting Prepared :)

Shot time! Katelyn and I had an appointment with a local doctor in town to discuss the shots we will need, so here is goes:)

• Hepatitis A: $75
  
• Hepatitis B: $65 each (need 3 of them)
  
• Typhoid: $55
  
• Yellow Fever: $87
  
• Polio: $32
  
• Rabies: $180
  
• TB: $40
  
• Malaria: pills we take while there
  

Probably forgetting some, but that's my list so far!

In June 2010, I will be heading off to Ghana to do a medical internship. I'll be working in the Accra hospital shadowing local doctors, and on the weekends doing outreach programs at local orphanages:) I'm very excited and scared at the same time. I'm excited to be in a place and experience a life style very different from the one I am living now! When I return in September I will be doing a public health internship in Washington D.C, so hopefully I will be able to apply the lessons I learned in my undergraduate studies, and the experiences I learned in Africa.

Although I will not be focusing my medical internship on just HIV/AIDS, it will definitely be something I will be encountering everyday. And I will be getting a first hand experience how their public health system is run by seeing how the local citizens get basic medical care.

The Beginning!

So in 2010, I will be backpacking through Europe for a month, and then heading off to Ghana, Africa! In Europe this is our tentative schedule:

Day 1 Travel
Day 2 Dublin - National Museum, Grafton Street
Day 3 Dublin-Dublin Castle -- Travel to London/ Lowestoft (Leave bags)
Day 4 London- Tower of London, St Pauls, Fleet Street
Day 5 London- Westminster Abbey, Big Ben/ London Eye
Day 6 London- Buckingham palace, Nat History Museum or British Museum
Day 7 London- Royal Parks and Gardens, Hamleys
Day 8 London- Stonehenge --- Travel overnight to Paris
Day 9 Paris- Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle Paris
Day 10 Paris- Musee Picasso, Musee du Louvre (part one)
Day 11 Paris- Musee du Louvre (part two), Musee D Orsay, Paris Couture
Day 12 Paris- Pantheon Paris, Museum National Naturelle
Day 13 Paris- Catacombes, Musee Rodin, Eiffel Tower
Day 14 Paris- Arc de Triomphe, La Madeleine, Moulin Rouge
Day 15 Paris- Versailles --- Travel to Barcelona
Day 16 Barcelona- Basilica de Santa MDM, Sagrada Familia ---Travel to Florence
Day 17 Florence- Duomo
Day 18 Rome- Vatican, St. Peters
Day 19 Rome- Castel Sant Angelo, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain
Day 20 Rome- Colosseum, Capitoline Museum
Day 21 Naples- Museo Arch. Naz., Porta Capuna
Day 22 Pompeii- Ruins, Mt Vesuveus
Day 23- Greece
Day 24- Greece
Day 25 - Greece
Day 26 Veince- St. Marks, Doges Palace, Santa Maria S.
Day 27- Vienna, Austria
Day 28- Prague, Czech
Day 29- Berlin, Germany
Day 30- Berlin, Germany
Day 31- Berlin, Germany
Day 32- Amsterdam- Anne Frank Hous, Koninklijk Paleis, Red Light District
Day 33- Amsterdam- Van Gogh Museum--- Travel back to London
Day 34- REST
Day 35- REST
Day 36- REST
Day 37- Flight to Accra, Ghana