By Lorena Fiori, City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps Member 2010-11 On September 1st, 2009, I found myself in an unfamiliar city, in an office full of people whose purpose I didn’t quite understand, thousands of miles away from home. It was, at the time, the most drastic and risky decision I’d ever made. It [...]
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By Hannah Miller, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member There’s almost no way to describe what it feels like to roll into the city of Los Angeles thinking this is my town now. Only LA can’t be described as simply a ‘town’, even if you put ‘tinsel’ in front of the word. Los Angeles is [...]
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By Marcus McKoy, City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps Member You are getting everything ready for your year with City Year. You may have even started thinking about what area you want to live in. Los Angeles is an expensive city, which means you may be (will probably be!) looking into finding roommates. Even though City [...]
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Jazz Cabezas, City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps Member Moving to Los Angeles is often both a great and stressful experience. Getting a roommate from Los Angeles to give you weekly tours can totally help. But if you can’t find one of these lovely people, here is a humorous breakdown of two of the coolest [...]
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Lily Austin, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member Located in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, Koreatown was a popular housing choice for corps members this year, which meant there were lots of City Year neighbors to meet in August. My roommates and I even snagged some furniture and advice from a City Year apartment [...]
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