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  Kumasi, Ghana
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Cory, Marcie and Mitch woke up today hopeful that that the

MOU would be complete and the meetings with all of the deans would be set

up. We all got up early, took our

showers, and dressed up in all our Michigan Tech gear. We set out on the journey to the IPS

office. When we got there, of course,

the dean was not there. He had been out

since Monday and probably won't be in for the rest of the week. The next step was to talk to his lead

secretary to see if the MOU was completed.

When we sat down and asked her if it had been done she said that it was

sent to the Provost's office today to be signed. Great, no dean and no MOU. The next question was to ask her if a meeting

with all of the deans had been set up.

No it hadn't. As we left her

office we knew that we had to do something on our own. We had pack all our Tech information into our

backpacks and we did not want to carry all that weight back to our dorms to

wait for tomorrow.

We came up with the plan to walk to all the offices of the

deans and meet with them one by one.

Just across from the IPS was the school of business and economics. That's a great start for us because we have a

lot of information about our School of business. We knocked on their door and asked if we

could meet with the dean. Unfortunately,

both his secretaries were there but he had not arrived at work yet today. Another good start to our plan.

We walked to the next building, which was the dean of

students. This meeting, thankfully, went

really well. He seemed very interested

in a lot of the programs that we were talking about and was very happy to talk

to us. One of the most interesting

things that came up was when we asked him if there were any projects he could

think of that would be helpful for KNUST.

He mentioned that they have been wanting to start a learning center for

the students to use at the University.

We had a very nice conversation about the learning centers at Michigan

Tech. He gave us his business card and

we are going to get him in contact with our learning centers so they can

collaborate and build a learning center at KNUST.

The next dean that we met with

was the dean of the Forestry school. He

was also very excited to talk with us because of Marcie. They had a very long and meaningful

conversation while the engineers were left out on the side. He Emanuel and knew that he went to Michigan

Tech. He said he would be very happy to

meet with all the students and talk to them about Michigan Tech. He actually said he would set up a meeting

with all the forestry students when they arrived back on campus late August to

talk to them about the opportunities available at Michigan Tech.

We eventually met with the deans

of: Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Business, Social Sciences,

and Architecture. All the meetings were

very similar and they were all very excited to continue the relationship

between our two schools. By the time we

were done it was already 3 in the afternoon and we decided we deserved a small

break and we went downtown to do a little shopping.

It was such a nice day today that

we decided to do a lot of walking downtown and a little exploring. It is amazing once you really get into the

market in Kumasi. At first we thought

the main streets where all the vendors are was the market, we were very

wrong. We found the real market

today. You have to travel down a few

alleys and take a few turns but you come out into this huge area with more

umbrellas and tents than you can imagine.

We wanted to take some pictures but when you are shoulder to shoulder

with a lot of strangers who are all looking at you, you don't really feel like

taking out your camera. We explored

around a little and found some really good deals on some clothes. Cory and Mitch both bought some Versace jeans

from 10 dollars each. Marcie found

herself a very beautiful dress for 10 dollars as well. We found some other small goodies for our

friends and families. It was starting to

get dark and we decided to head home so we flagged a cab and we were back at

KNUST in no time.

We did not do too much during the

night. Since the IBV team has been here

we have been enjoying each other's company very much so we were getting behind

on some blogs. We figured it was a good

night to catch up. We wish the IBV team

safe travels and we really want to thank all of them for the wonderful

experiences that we shared together. We

could not have asked for a more smart, hardworking, fun, and amazing group of

people. We cannot wait till we can all

see you again. Maybe we can get a change

to buy some more paintings together or even some minutes. We love you guys!

Mitch, Marcie, and Cory