SCORES Week

With the last week of Spring Season lurking just beyond Memorial Day, we are excited for our upcoming SCORES Week. This is the time where we celebrate all of the wonderful things our students have been doing over the last 10 weeks.

Schedule is as follows:

Monday-Memorial Day (No School)
Tuesday-Coaches vs Students Games/Pizza Party (At All Sites)
Wednesday: Poetry SLAM  5-7pm @ Braddock Elementary
Thursday: Community Service Projects (At Elementary Sites)
Friday: Community Jamboree!!! 3-6pm (Mar Vista Park)

We hope to see you there!!!

The Beginning

The Spring Season is coming to a swift end and all of our sites are preparing for SCORES Week, a celebration of another successful school year of programming, of friendships made, of imaginations nurtured. I ,for one, love being a part of this program. I love being able to contribute to a cause I know to be worthy. I love debating ideas with the staff, exploring with new techniques with the coaches, and learning from the kids. In spite of the harshness found in the world, I get a daily reminder that the way to joy is paved with smiles. We have great people working with us, coaches who understand what it is to be good people. We do good work here. We build lasting relationships. We care.

Go team,
Armond Richards
Program Director

Nice to meet you!

Hi all of you!

I am Esmee, 17 years old and I am from the Netherlands. I am very excited to be here! My school offered me the chance to go on an internship for four weeks. The education that I get is a bilingual education, which means I get classes in both English and Dutch. Also, we went on a trip in every school year. Our first year it was London, the second year we did an exchange with Germany , third year we went to Czech Republic, and last year we went to Oxford and Cambridge. But this is the thing I have been looking forward to since I started at this school when I was 12 years old: a trip to an English speaking country all by myself.

I love playing soccer and this is how I found LA Scores. So that is where I am now, at the office of LA Scores, writing a post for the blog. Last Thursday was my very first day at the office, and David and I talked things through. We kind of decided that I would take care of the communication side of the organisation, like Facebook, Twitter and this blog. On Thursday afternoon I got to meet a few of the children and they were adorable. On Friday I worked on the new Facebook page (you can now actually like it!) and after lunch we went to Mar Vista park to set up Game Day. Around 3 all the kids started to arrive and warm up for their game. I was a ref at one of the girls matches. I was very warm at the turf field, but we had a lot of fun!

I really look forward to seeing all the children in the afternoons, because I really enjoyed that last week! Also, I really want to help out at the office because I would like to find out how everything works at a non-profit organisation.