2/3 First Day on the Phones

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          Starting our internships came with a wave of emotions, the strongest of which was hunger: I had forgotten to eat this morning and was regretting it on the van ride over. Good thing our centrally located Main Street Nashua office located in the Corriveau Insurance Agency building was near a multitude of restaurants, shops, and was fully stocked with snacks donated by volunteers and supporters to keep us going through our more vexing phone banking sessions.
         
History in the making: Mitchell and I calling Academic Advising to let them know
we'll be dropping out of college and moving to New Hampshire permanently

Grant, from Tampa, who has shown me the invaluable
New Hampshire resource that is the hand warmer.
     Downtown Nashua is absolutely beautiful. It has so much to offer: some restaurants that have been recommended to us from the get go are Martha's Exchange [EDIT 2/9/20: I ate at Martha's Exchange- apparently Joe Biden ate there with his wife earlier today!], Nashua Garden, and Riverview Cafe. In the meantime, here are some photos of Nashua to make you jealous that it is not your canvassing turf.
Creative decor in the Yang offices and a
view of the coffee shop we took our break at!






Me posing with a traditional dirt ice pile of New Hampshire.






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