 I started playing music when I was in the fourth grade and I really enjoyed it and I also listened to the Navy cruisers and that was like, I was sure that I wanted to do music. Throughout the year we go to schools from kindergarten through high school. We go in and we play shows for them and talk to them about the Navy and just make connections. What I've learned in my life through music is that it can provide a type of joy and so for us it's super important to bring music to kids around the area because school's hard and to give them a couple hours where they can come into the gym and just dance and laugh and have a good time and sing and hear songs that they know, it provides an invaluable experience to them. I play music because it's something that has always been important to me. It's where I found a home inside of the school atmosphere. You know, you have people that were joining the football team, the basketball team. I was the band geek. It's just a sense of joy for me. When I listen to music and when I get to perform it, I have joy and I want to share it with whoever wants to listen. So, you know, for the students, when I see the smiles on their faces I smile and when they see me smile, they smile, you know, just always want to have a good time. I think it's a lot of fun because it's just like, we always hear in military everything war and things, but when we hear that they have a band and they actually come and play for us, we realize that it's more than just going to war and so it really just opens up your eyes to how much fun the military could be. At Sulin High School, our relationship with the military bands is probably more than you may get other places because we are fortunate enough here to have an applied lesson program where we have private teachers come in for our lessons and most of them are either active military or retired military. I actually knew about Dr. Audrey before I came to the school so when I found out that she was my private lesson teacher, I freaked out because I was going to be taught by someone who I already know had a lot of talent and it was extremely, like, just one of the best saxophone players I'd ever heard. You know, even though they may not see the Navy very often we come out and perform for them, but we're representatives of all the sailors that are out to see around the world and around the clock, you know, protecting their freedoms that give them the opportunity to come see us in the first place.