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Same opportunities and it was powerful and motivating and it is just something that i will never forget and i am forever grateful for everyone who made it possible. Thank you. So, iesha is being a little modest. She was one of the outsing of the year for the boys and girls club in 2012. Yeah. So she is pretty spectacular kid too. And so just to give everybody the background and i know that a lot of people know the story, this was entirely jasons idea. And so i was all ready to blame it on him if...

Three part process, one of the parts where they had to write a letter or an essay, explaining why they want to go, and why they should be selected. The second part they had to maintain a 2. 0 gpa. And in the third part was they have to display Good Behavior at school as well as at the boys and girls club. The requirement for the 2. 0 was i think as far as next time, not sure if that will be part of the requirement because like i said one young lady after she got a passport and a ticket and every...

Have to display Good Behavior at school as well as at the boys and girls club. The requirement for the 2. 0 was i think as far as next time, not sure if that will be part of the requirement because like i said one young lady after she got a passport and a ticket and everything come to find out she was not even in school. And we thought of her going now, she was going to school and have the gpa is over a 2. 0. And so it might be something that somebody needs to, you know, to get their grades up. ...

And so it might be something that somebody needs to, you know, to get their grades up. And i think that the point that i wanted to make was that there was preparation, which i felt was key. And a lot of thought went into that. And i know that you talked about, you know, the impact that it had on the young people, but having seen you and the other adults in the studio, i dont know who got the most out of it, you guys or the kids . Really. And it comes through here, and even as you are speaking no...

Of the requirement because like i said one young lady after she got a passport and a ticket and everything come to find out she was not even in school. And we thought of her going now, she was going to school and have the gpa is over a 2. 0. And so it might be something that somebody needs to, you know, to get their grades up. And i think that the point that i wanted to make was that there was preparation, which i felt was key. And a lot of thought went into that. And i know that you talked abou...

Yeah. Jj. Officer johnson, chief, captain sullivan, you know, this is just such a lesson to me and i feel like in the time that i have known you on the commission, i have learned a lot and one of those things is that you have this bold idea where there is a million different points that you could just say that this is not going to work and whenever you are trying to do anything in the world and what i am just amazed by is that the level of difficulty in pulling this off. And you know, i sometime...

Really. And it comes through here, and even as you are speaking now. And i told the kids, and i use the phrase a lot the world is bigger than the block. Yeah. The most important piece of it, is their academic diplomas that she can get is their passport and i mean, obviously, for me, history and culture is just the basis of who i am and what i do. And so but for you to take them actually there, i mean, that is greater than anything that they read in a book and you read in a book. So we are going ...

Unmotivated and challenged just i just didnt had no selfconfidence nothing so i came to the Life Learning Academy constantly it was shown me if i was begin the right path it would be Better Life Academy showed me if youre able to apply what we teach you here which there are so. Things but i only have a few minutes they taught me that selfconfident and determination as well as shown me in my personal life how far i can go so, now today, i work for bowing her in San Francisco and doing a lot of ot...

Students need from year to year. Weve discovered in the past couple of years we more and more have kids that dont have a home. And weve taken it upon ourselves to add this as part of our education f to begin to raise money to open a residential that kids need a place to life and grow and feel a part of. The thing that makes our school unique kids come into our school and constantly feel part of the community. It is so important and lost in so many ways. Once they understand what it feels like to...

Selfconfidence nothing so i came to the Life Learning Academy constantly it was shown me if i was begin the right path it would be Better Life Academy showed me if youre able to apply what we teach you here which there are so. Things but i only have a few minutes they taught me that selfconfident and determination as well as shown me in my personal life how far i can go so, now today, i work for bowing her in San Francisco and doing a lot of other things in my life i wouldnt have creamed i could...