Greetings from Simunye! Hannah here. Giving you all a first report on the LVC crew in Baltimore, Maryland. (The photo above is the five of us hanging out at the Inner Harbor. Moving from left to right: Hannah, Laura, Narges, Erin, Clara.) We are a fun bunch of women. All full of passion, determination and wit. We were all strangers to one another not too long ago. But since boarding our flight to Baltimore, I’ve come to know the four women quite well. Here’s a bit about each of them. First off, Laura Lampson. She was the first person I met during National Volunteer Orientation inRead More →

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What do you get when you throw one person from Oregon, two from Iowa, one from Minnesota, one from Michigan, and one from North Carolina together in a house in Delaware? So far it’s been teasing each other’s accents, discussing the difference between “scotcharoos” and “special K bars,” and wondering when we’re going to run into Joe Biden. Exploring the east coast this first month has been an adventure. One of our first goals in Wilmington was to get to know our neighborhood. We ate our first dinner as a house outside on our front porch. We made an effort to say hello to everyoneRead More →

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Three weeks ago, I moved across the river from my hometown of St. Paul, into a 100-year-old house in Minneapolis. I did this with five housemates I’d met four days earlier at LVC’s National Orientation in Chicago. The housemates, in the photo from left to right, are Cassandra, from Ohio via the University of Dayton; Adam, from Iowa via Luther College; Hannah, from Wisconsin via Augsburg College; Kristen, from Colorado via St. Olaf College; and Disket, from India via St. Olaf College (I’m second from the right). As the only Minnesotan in the group, I might be expected to be the resident expert on theRead More →

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