about
This journal was kept by NYU junior Lauren Kent in January 2003 during a nine-day trip to Ghana with the school's Gallatin Scholars group. The organization travels internationally each winter to foster global cultural understanding.
The writing contained herein represents all of Lauren's journaling during the trip. Thus, some of it is personal; some mundane; some will make sense to no one but her. The photographs and videos were also taken while abroad.

entries
Tue Jan 7
Thu Jan 9
Fri Jan 10
Sat Jan 11
Sun Jan 12
Mon Jan 13
Tue Jan 14
Thu Jan 16
Fri Jan 17
itinerary

media
Accra
Kumasi
Ntonso
Elmina
Volta Region
Videos

copyright
All writing, photographs, and videos on this site are copyright © Lauren Kent 2003. Any unconsented reproduction of this work is, well, bad. E-mail if you'd like to use any of it.

 
 
Images
Elmina

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[sunrise in Elmina] [(another) sunrise in Elmina] [the (rather rough) surf on the Atlantic]
[sunrise for a fishing community] [ah, beach litter.] [a footprint in the sand]
[a junior secondary school classroom] [fun with technology] [primary school students singing]
[the heads of the Ewe village] [the chief] [the Ewe village]
[the Elmina slave castle] [windows at the Elmina castle] [going up, Elmina castle]
[anchoring ball used to punish female slaves] [a slave chamber] [the male slaves' exit to the Americas]
[the shore in central Elmina] [upper-level windows in the castle] [the inner Elmina harbor]
[a second-floor window in Elmina castle] [don't they mean 'dwarves'?] [a flower by the Elmina shore]
[flowers near the beach] [three flowers] [whoa.]
  [layered palm branches] [palm fronds]