 So I grew up in the top end, that's where we are right now. I think my first real exposure to the Indo-Pacific region was through food. Every Saturday we would drive into Darwin and go to the markets and we'd eat different types of food that was available at the markets and it was all being cooked by first and second generation immigrants who brought family recipes across and it was really authentic. In 2012 I started a Bachelor of Construction Management and Economics at the University of South Australia and the following year I also undertook a Bachelor of Law so I did two concurrently. There's a variety of large complex construction projects taking place across the Indo-Pacific at the moment and I find the complexities and idiosyncrasies of all of them fascinating and I think that I want to create a career working on those projects. Through the New Colombo Plan scholarship idea to six months I exchanged with the University of Malaya which is a university in Kuala Lumpur and I also did a five month internship with Len Lease. While I was working for Len Lease I was really fortunate to be able to work on a $2.8 billion construction project. I'm really interested to see the people that I worked alongside of where they end up going. They're probably not going to stay in KL. They might be working on projects in London, in Dubai, in Korea. There's limitless potential for these people as a result of the experience that they've grown as a project and I think for me staying in touch with them and also just staying interested in what other people are doing I find that fascinating. So I see Darwin really as being a gateway to Asia. I think that geographically it's perfectly located to access nearly every country in the Indo-Pacific. A lot of countries are pumping money into their construction industries to promote growth in their economy. And so for me I think being situated in Darwin provides an opportunity to be able to access a lot of those different projects and to provide services to those. The new combo plan is really good because there is just this incredible opportunity for you to go and create your future career and to get more exposure to the world and I think that you won't be able to get that through many other experiences at such a young age.