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“Dear, don’t forget your toothbrush and toothpaste!” mom reminded me as I was putting my charger inside my favourite chikorita backpack. 

“You did brush your teeth, right?”

“Yes, mom. I always do,” I answered routinely. She asks the same question every morning and I always answer that I did, I have no need to lie. Hygiene is important, after all.

“Did you pack enough underwear? Clothes for every weather?”

“I tried. Didn’t the pan say that the weather is always on the colder side of mild in the place we’re going to?”

“Cooler side, yes, but you can never be sure, dear.” 

Well, I’ll see if it’s cooler when I get there, won’t I? But I didn’t say that out loud. Mom doesn’t like sarcastic comments, she’s of the opinion that it’s better to be direct when speaking.

Mom walked toward me and gave me a soft kiss on my forehead. “I will miss you, Gemma.”

The doorbell rang, stopping me from telling her, that I’ll miss her too.

“Seems he is here!” she walked around me to open the door.

Behind it stood a young man, or rather a young pan that was trying to pass as a young man. He was wearing a cheerful smile, a long-sleeved polo shirt with a sweater vest and pinstriped trousers. The outfit would look quite formal if it weren't for his loose knit beanie with a floral design. 

“Good morning ms Corentine!”

“Good morning, Oliver. Come inside, I’ve made tea.”

“I… That sounds nice but we should be on our way,” Oliver smiled sheepishly. Or should it be goatishly? As he is a pan and all that? Goat legs, great climber, cute horns and stuff, you know? Oh, don’t worry, it also seemed weird to me the first time we met. 

We went to the Natural History Museum in London a few months back. (I love dinosaurs.) We only go on special occasions, this time it was for my birthday. Why only for special occasions, you ask? Well, we, it’s only me and my mom, live in a small village called Abinger and my mom cannot see, so getting places… it’s a bit difficult. But this time we went. We stopped by St. James’s Park (because there are awesome living dinosaurs there) and that’s where we met Oliver. He was hanging out with his nymph friends, or that’s what he told us, but as soon as he smelled me, he ran towards us so fast he lost his feet! (Not his real feet, of course, but the fake polystyrene ones the pans wear to pass as humans.) 

He told us that I have a strong connection to the earth and was quite surprised that I started walking faster. But mom stopped me and decided that the London park in the later afternoon is the best place to dump on me that I'm actually a demigod! That’s why I never met my dad and why he doesn’t live with us. Though Oliver, as I already said, was quite surprised. Supposedly, the deities of Europe and the Meditteranean decided to at least try to be good parents, to make it up for their past misdeeds or something like that. (Have you read the myths? They are actually horrible people.) They should explain what they are, before deciding to create a child with someone (as all people should) and then at least pay for childcare. As my dad didn’t do any of that Oliver came to the conclusion that he must be just some minor rural deity. (Though wouldn’t minor gods have more time for their kids as their domain is smaller?) For Greco-Roman demigods, especially those with an absentee divine parent (such as myself), there is a mandatory voluntary training camp each summer. ‘To hone your abilities, make new friends and prepare yourself for the life of a hero!’ at least that’s what the brochure said. And this summer happens to be special because the Greco-Roman pantheon is hosting the Gathering of the European Pantheons and the Pantheons of the Mediterranean Region. Gepm for short (yes, I know, it doesn’t include all the initials, but even you must admit that Gepm is a bit more pronounceable than GEPPMR). 

“Miss Gemma, are you ready to depart?” Oliver asked with that storyteller's voice that people do when they want to hype someone up for an adventure. 

“Yes, mister Oliver. I’m ready!” I called. The ‘ready’ part of my answer ended up heaving the weird melody as if picking something heavy (because I was picking something heavy - my hiking backpack).

“Oh, miss, you don’t have to carry that!” said Oliver and took it down from my back, “Just carry your lovely little green friend and I’ll deal with the heavy stuff.”

“Thank you. Will you be alright?” I had to ask, “it really is heavy.” Well, sorry for being concerned, but he was the same height as me (which isn’t much) and looked quite shaky on those fake feet of his. But he was stronger than he looked, he carried my heavy hiking backpack with the utmost ease. 

We said our goodbyes and left the premises. I expected some kind of magical transport, but Oliver confidently walked towards a small green car parked next to our hedges.

“Hop on in, miss,” Oliver called as he was putting my backpack in the boot. 

“Can I sit in the front?”

“Yes, of course!”

There were hedges in my way. 

Oliver noticed, “Oh, apologies. I’ll move so you can get in.”

He took it straight to London.

“Where exactly are we going?”

“The Underworld. But if you are asking where we’re going to get to the Underworld… We are going to the Camberwell Submarine.”

“That’s an entrance to the Underworld?”

“One of. The main one in London is in Notting Hill Gate Station. But the Submarine is a direct doorway, a backdoor entrance you could say. It’s faster.”

I nodded.

“My apologies for not taking you on the scenic route.”

“No, that’s fine,” I assured him, “it’s a three-week camp. We’ll go on a quick tour at some point, right?”

“Lord Hades doesn’t like the living snooping around his Underworld, but lord Dionysus always finds a way to make him create an exception.”

“Are the gods going to be at camp?”

“I don’t really want to spoil it for you…”

“But it would be nice to be prepared.”

“That is true…”

I smiled at him, “Please?”

“Alright, just a little spoiler,” Oliver took a deep breath, “The main counsellor and activity director is Cheiron-”

“The immortal centaur, I know,” I interjected, “That was in the brochure.”

“Oh, of course,” he got a bit flustered.

“Sorry.” I realised I was rude…

“No, no! It’s alright. You’d rather know stuff about the gods, right?”

“Well, I don’t want to get smited…”

Oliver laughed, “You don’t have to worry about that. That’s why it’s in the Underworld. So the gods that usually do the smiting can be kept out. But don’t tell them that. The chthonic-” I made a face. “-The underworld deities, I mean, are usually pretty calm.”

“So lord Hades runs the camp?”

“Oh no,” he smiled, “lord Hades has too much work on his hands. The director is lady Persephone, lord Hades is more of a sponsor. But there will be the Graces, lady Psyche, her daughter, lady Hedone, lady Harmonia, actually, I’m not sure about that one, and lord Dionysus of course. He is the god of youths after all. And there'll be many nymphs, satyrs and pans. Maybe also some volunteers from Elysium!”

“Dead people?”

“There are some great dinner ladies in Elysium!” I couldn’t argue with that.

New Update On University of Ghana GEMP Shortlisted Applicants 2022

New Update On University of Ghana GEMP Shortlisted Applicants 2022.  University of Ghana Medical School Graduate Entry Medical Programme – List of Candidates Short-Listed For Access Course -2022. You have been shortlisted to participate in the two-week Access Course for the 2022 GEMP admission from 24th January, – 4th February 2022 followed by entrance examination on 15th February 2022 all on the…

First year is such a blur at this point, I took a lot more subjects than I had anticipated, and to be honest they weren’t really medically related. I took physics, chemistry, animal, plant and environmental studies minues the plants and environment, I also took psychology, sociology (related to a healthcare context) and a half-year course comprising of health system dynamics, medical terminology and critical thinking. 

Health system dynamics was one of the most difficult subjects I had ever studied, at first, but once I really practiced it and put more time into it, it soon became one my favourite subjects. It had to do with a lot of systems modelling, like an inflow and outflow and how it affects a certain level, once we started using it to understand the clearance of a drug in the body, it sparked my interest. 

The other subjects were not that bad, chemistry became a little daunting once we began organic chemistry which I suppose we need a background in for pharmacology which is a third year subject. 

Volatile Trading With A Spread Of 60%, Gemphire Therapeutics Inc (Nasdaq:GEMP) Close At $2.23

Gemphire Therapeutics Inc (Nasdaq:GEMP)

September 7th, 2018

Gemphire Therapeutics Inc closed Saturday up 42.04%, a $0.66 increase to close on $2.23. Gemphire Therapeutics Inc swung 60.42% between high and low. The stock continues to trade well at 169% of its 52 week low of $0.83. Two technical ‘scores’ for stocks to be aware of are the Altman Z1 and the Piotroski2 scores. GEMP scored quite low…