Lunch hour at my office is fairly routine. It’s usually leftovers or chicken noodle soup heated in the microwave.

But for the last few months, Monday lunches at the Volunteer Center have been different. Last fall, four Volunteer Center employees decided to do the obvious – volunteer. We signed up to help out at Lipscomb Elementary, a neighborhood school just five minutes from our office.

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When we attended our first orientation, we weren’t sure what we were getting into. Would we work with 40 students at once? Would we have to remember the capital of South Dakota? Since 73 percent of Lipscomb’s students speak Spanish, would we have to speak Spanish?

Fortunately, the answer to each question was