Jenny Chen's picture  During this past Thursday's class we
anonomously put up our thoughts about our trip to Ghana and
where to progress from there. One classmates response asked a
question along the lines of "What happens when the stereotypes
we know about turn out to be more true that we had hoped?" and
this particular question impacted me quite significantly and
made me begin to think of answers to this question.   To begin,
I had a similar revelation while in Ghana. One day at lunch
Alice asked me what my "AHA!" moment in Ghana was and I said
that even though I had never been in Ghana or any country in
Africa, what I was experiencing was not mind-blowingly different
than what I had thought. When I applied to this 360 program and
I had mentioned that one of my goals is to disprove some of the
pre-conceived notions that I have about Africa as a whole.
Through reading and analysis and ultimately through a first hand
experience in Ghana I was expecting to come home with stories
about how our original pre-conc