Manchester Magazine Spring 2016 | Page 27

MU| F e a t u r e s M anchester students who go on the Medical Practicum pay more than $2,000 each to walk through mud, ride in dugout canoes, sleep in hammocks wrapped in mosquito netting, drink filtered river water and eat rice and beans. That their names go on a waiting list for this self-inflicted hardship is a testament to just how powerful the January experience in Nicaragua is. “It’s life-changing, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat,” says Emily Clark ’18, a s