 Bringing people together is something that I love to do. No matter what outcome they have come from in their past lives or what they're dealing with right now, just to bring everybody together is very important, especially from where I came from. When I was very young, baby, my mother had left me. For a long time, I never understood why. It just one, one day she often left. And my biological father was a drug dealer. He was a very abusive person. He abused me and my sister. If you can think of a bad person, just multiply it by a hundred is, that's what he was. I don't think that man understood love. And for the longest time, I didn't either because I never felt it growing up. And that's when we were introduced to my adopted parents now, Chris and Christie. At first, I didn't understand why somebody would wanna take kids in that weren't their own blood, had no relation to them or wanna care for them. It was just something I didn't understand. And then something just, I don't know what it was, something just snapped inside me. And I started to realize that what caring was and what they wanted for me. And that's when I kind of decided that I wanted to be better. I know I wanted to do something with cameras and photography and videography, but how was I supposed to do it? And my mom sat me down one day and we were talking and she goes, you know, you should go to Western. As my school year started to progress, my grades started going down because of personal issues. There was a point where I just, I got really sad and I don't know if I wanna call it depressed, but I mean, it was kind of like that and I just didn't wanna do anything. I didn't wanna do work. And I finally had the courage to actually go up and talk to my main instructor about what was going on and what I was dealing with. And that's when he said to me, Xander, I understand. People go through stuff and I know your story. Just focus on what you need to do right now and worry about getting your homework in later. And again, I had kind of like that snap, like, oh my gosh, these people really do care. That's when I decided that I wanted to do more for Western. I want people to know that you don't have to be alone and you don't have to be scared. It's okay to reach out and ask for help. Never be scared. Even though I can't say how they exactly feel during what they're going through, I can say I understand. And that's when I try to share my story and help them get to a better place to know that, hey, if somebody else did it, I can do it too.