On Saturday, September 3, 2005, the Sports Committee of the Ashesi Student Council (ASC) in conjunction with the Welfare Committee, Entertainment Committee and the Health Centre of Ashesi University organized a power walk in order to psyche up members of the Ashesi Community for another long semester. The walk was from the Ashesi Apartments located behind Southern Fried Chicken near Danquah Circle to the Airport Roundabout and back. The walk began with a short warm-up session of about 5 minutes led by Lionel Nunoo of the 2006 CS class. The group set off on the walk at 6:15am. A total of 22 people showed up for the walk. Prominent amongst the participants were the Associate Director of Development, Mr. Matthew Taggart and Julia Lowe, an undergraduate student from the University of Washington.

Even though most of the participants were men, the ladies who were present showed that they had what it took to go through with the walk.  Special mention goes to Joyce Okyere who was simply marvelous with the kind of determination she put up throughout the course.

The route of the walk was as follows:

Start: Ashesi Apartments
-> Morning Star School
–> Togo Embassy
-> Ghana International School

-> Aviation Social Centre

-> AFGO

Turn: Airport Roundabout

-> AFGO

-> Aviation Social Centre

-> Cantonments Post Office

-> SSNIT Flats

-> Togo Embassy

-> Morning Star School

End: Ashesi Apartments

Upon reaching the Ashesi Hostel, the participants were taken through another round of exercises by Zubair Abubakar. Kojo Bimpong-Buta a.k.a Picasso, Chairman of the Welfare Committee of the Ashesi Student Council exhibited his department’s support for the walk by providing his car as the official emergency vehicle for any participant who could not complete the course. He was also on hand to convey refreshments to all the participants at the end of the walk.

To all those who participated in the walk, good show!! Keep it up!! And to those who missed it, do not worry, there is more to come!

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