 So I first got into astronomy when I was around seven years old my grandfather showed me a comet hellbop through a telescope And ever since then I was obsessed and I was really lucky my grandfather really indulged me and whenever he saw a book about Astronomy he bought it and gave it to me even if it was way above my level I always really enjoyed the pictures as I went on when I was in school I was the only girl in my advanced physics class, but my teacher. She was also a woman. She was really supportive Incredibly supportive and she really told me just to go for it no matter what And I went to university and studied physics. I didn't even know you could study astronomy. I didn't know you could be an astronomer But then I saw I met some astronomers and thought yeah, this is what I want to do I went on my first observing run as an undergraduate for a field trip I went to is Anna observatory in Tenerife and I remember I got off the bus I looked up and I saw the nebula in Orion really saw it for the first time and I knew from that moment on Which was maybe ten years ago and you I was going to be an astronomer and you whatever it took I was going to go