Students Back from Spring Break
Emily Merkle Design Editor Katelyn Fritz with a young girl in Guatemala. Photo courtesy of Fritz. As students grudgingly walked back into the High School on their first day back from break, Monday March 23, the students enrolled in the Advanced Nurse Aid class were welcomed back with a pleasant surprise. Registered nurse Michelle Metts, had been a part of this class many times before to substitute, teach and to help at clinicals. On that special Monday however, she was a special guest. She gave the students a presentation on a medical mission trip she had went on only a few years ago called Medicine for Mali. Metts, only a few other nursing students and another nurse traveled to Mali, Africa to set up a clinic in which people traveled for miles and waited in line for hours. They were only there a short 2 weeks, but in that time helped care for many people and made a large impact on the dangerous town, so dangerous that the program was shut down a couple of years after. ...