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After ten years of ISAA receiving financial support through the City of Philadelphia, our program as well as many others lost funding due the the current economic situation. We are looking for assistance from organizations such as Nike to allow us to continue our service to the communities and youth that we serve.  We have entered a contest through NIKE to earn up to $650,000 in funding to support our student athletes.

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The International Student Athlete Academy, Inc. (ISAA) was established in 1995 with the primary goal is to teach young student-athletes to master proven study skill and standardized test taking techniques to improve their overall grades in school and on the SAT/ACT tests. ISAA aims to give our participants confidence and encouragement to assist them in making a successful transition from high school to college academically, athletically and socially as well as educate their parents to available resources to assist them. ISAA offers a comprehensive year-round academic enrichment program that is was developed for and exclusively targets middle and high school student-athletes. ISAA infuses athletics from the viewpoint of the successful collegiate student athlete as well as the demands and responsibilities that come with it. ISAA admits students in the 7th-12th grade and they quickly learn fact from fantasy and learn that academics is the means to reach their athletic & life goals.

Nike is investing up to $650,000 in grants across the nation to unlock the potential of young people through the power of sports and we need you! The application period is over, but we need your votes to help determine the grant winners. Vote for your favorite organizations and share with your friends. PLEASE VOTE!!!!!!!   http://www.nikebackyourblock.com/ApplicantProfile.aspx?ApplicantId=073f860c-59d6-4383-8d76-3dbfcfa174b9. after you vote, you have to check your email to verify the vote Share it with your friends and family to help get votes for your organization. Thanks again and good luck!

This is a story of boy meets girl

I went to see 500 days of Summer.  Such a cute movie that was perfect entertainment. It was kinda like an updated version of When Harry met Sally. Zooey Deschanel alsways makes me laugh, and I can't help but picture her from her stint on Weeds as Andy's psycho van-living girlfriend.  And the dude looks just like Heath Ledger and is from 30 rock - and HOT.

But, I had to post a few lines from the movie that I am going to try and incorporate into my life.

"Darling. I don't know how to tell you this, but there's a Chinese family in our bathroom."

(don't know how I'll use that one)

"They used to call me anal girl : I was very neat and organized."

(clearly I'll never use this considering I am the most UNorganized person on earth.)

"Roses are red, violets are blue… F you whore."

(this was a greeting card in the movie.) Prob won't send that to someone.

Come into my office...

Well, after a tremendously horrible experience with the Phila SD finding a school, I finally am at my new school, semi- settled in.  Everytime I print out a Ms. Goodman sign, or hang up a flyer for parents, I laugh and think, "seriously, like who am I kidding?"  I guess I have a big girl job now!

Things I can predict:

1. Even though my office is right at the front door, and says COUNSELOR on the wall, kids still will have no idea where the counselor is

2. No one will know my name, I'll be called Ms. Good, Ms. G-d, Never Ms. Goodman

3. Because no one has to check in before getting to my office, I will have an influx of parents waiting for me before I get to school

4. My room is the only room w/OUT air conditioning

5.  I will spend more money on school/room supplies than I am being paid

6. On my lunch break I can guarantee daily visits to Walmart and target (they get new shipments in everyday!)

7.  Kids will think I'm "drawwin, corny, hype, and jo."  Translation: crazy, dorky, too excited, or trying too hard.  

8.  The school is a dead zone.  I didn't think those existed except on that scary Verizon commercial.

9. There is a teacher that looks EXACTLY like L.C. from The Hills, I'll tell her when I'm more comfortable, and she will tell me she never watches it. 

10.  The people at Family Dollar will know me.

Check it out....

Office...Room 1 of 2 I have.

Entrance to my Office