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well. well as some counselling online. TCM: As an old girl of Mfantsiman Senior High, if given the chance, would it still be your choice and what are some of the experiences you picked up from the school? GTK: Yes and if given the chance I would go there again but of course with the mentality of making an im- pact given what I know now. Even though every institution has its pe- culiar challenges, all in all it was a good place. At the time we had wa- ter shortages and had to travel long distances to fetch water. The chal- lenge of having very little water in a female environment not only de- veloped in me a sense of hard work but also a level of humility which is very necessary for ministry. TCM: Briefly take us through your career path. GTK: After my national service in the year 2000, I travelled to Cote d’Ivo- ire and worked with Servex Busi- ness Centre for 3months and one and a half years in Ameritech Insti- tute, both in Abidjan. I returned to Ghana and joined SG-SSB Bank in June 2003 as a personal assistant to the new French Managing Direc- tor and was later transferred to the Foreign Operations Department. I left SG-SSB in September 2007 to join Intercontinental Bank (now Ac- cess Bank), where I worked till I fi- nally left the corporate world in TCM: Can you give us your journey through tertiary education at the University of Ghana, Legon? GTK: It wasn’t all smooth sailing, with hitches here and there espe- cially since I was coming from a Christian home. It was what I would refer to as a ‘pressurized’ environ- ment and as much as I tried to stay focused, there were occasional dis- tractions but God saw me through. I begun with Linguistics, Spanish and French and majored in Spanish and Linguistics. The language op- tion has worked for my good as we currently have a branch church in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea where Spanish is spoken, giving me the opportunity to do translations as