 When I first came in America, it was really tough. There's a lot of language barriers. I had a hard time going one place to another. I'm going to school coming back. We didn't really get to connect with nature. Snowboarding and camping, those are things I never dreamed of. But as I joined to the adventure club, I was like, oh, wow. It's like making your dream true. People are so like, oh, you're a hijabi. How do you do snowboarding and camping? And like, those are the things I take pride of. Oh, yeah, I do camping. I do snowboarding. Yeah. I'm from a student that don't get much opportunity to get out from the Hamtramic. I'm a part of the Hamtramic Outdoor Adventure Club. I never know what is camping or what is backpacking. I learned my most of the English from Outdoor Adventure Club. I got to know like new people. When first time ever I went to my trip, I was the only one hijabi girl. And then from our second trip, Nora participated with us and she was the second hijabi girl. And then for Hannah and now, so many hijabi girls we have in our club. Honestly, the best decision I've ever made was going inside that club. I got to be in nature, looking at the trees, breathing the air. Everything just lifted off of your shoulders. Hamtramic High School and the Outdoor Adventure Club really is sort of the dream realized of the Detroit Outdoors Collaborative. Those organizations that came together, the Parks and Rec Department in Detroit, the YMCA and the Sierra Club, really believe that if we could lower barriers, it can make experiences in nature for Detroit youth much more accessible. It's really important for a young person to see themselves connected in these natural spaces. Utilizing something like the Transit to Trails campaign or a partner like the Bus for Outdoor Access and Teaching, you can really sort of unlock the potential of teachers and kids to really chart their own path into the outdoors. After high school, I have a plan to go to university. I will continue my snowboarding. Sitting by the campfire, sharing stories, I really, really enjoy it. The stuff that you've never seen, things you see in books, it's in real life. Our young people are the ones that we should be looking to for how we develop this important relationship with nature so that we can figure out how to live in this planet in a way where we've got a future for all the generations to come.