 Before I joined the Youth Challenge Academy, I was not doing good in school. I was, you know, I was using marijuana and really just not doing good choices, like, as in trying to succeed in life, basically. So before that, it was more of just get by the day type of thing. And I didn't really think anything of it. I always thought, you know, I can do this later. I can, you know, get by. But it really wasn't how I thought I was going to be. You know, when I, when I was in junior year, they had told me that I was failing my classes and that I would need to do something about it. My, my attendance, like from, from Davis attendance, they told me that I would need to join a program or something to get my credits up. And that's when I seen the Youth Academy. And at first I was like skeptical of joining because, you know, it was, it was different, but I got my credits and now I'm doing better. I don't do marijuana anymore. I don't do bad choices and I'm on track to graduate. So when I joined the Youth Challenge Academy, I, I expected it to be like something that I could just get by, you know, just go through and get my credits. And it really, it really wasn't like that at first. At first it was very hard for the first two weeks of acclimation. And I never expected it to feel like that because I thought it was just, just something that I was going to get by I thought it was going to be easy but it really wasn't to be able to do that. It takes a strong minded person to do something like that to go out of their comfort zone and able to, you know, step up to the challenge. And mostly, well, I expect, I did expect some, some struggles that I was going to go through. Mostly because everybody talked to me in a worse way, like the, the challenge was the Youth Academy, they said it was hard and, and that it was more like a bootcamp but it really wasn't. It wasn't that hard once I got through it. Like after the first two weeks, it got easier and easier. So life at the Youth Challenge Program was, it was very well organized, like before the Youth Challenge Academy, I had no organization in my life. I was just doing randomly things throughout the day. And the Youth Challenge gave me a schedule basically to follow through the day. So I would know what I was going to do the next day, and I would be prepared for it. It really taught me how preparing for the next day can be easier. So you don't have to be rushing basically for the next day. And you're not all scrambled on what you need to do. And basically, get your whole life planned out one week at a time. Okay, so we would wake up at 445 in the morning. And then we would have 15 minutes to be up dressed and out for PT, physical training. And then after physical training would take about an hour. And we would go back to our, you know, our bunks in place. And we would get ready for, for the day basically we would do showers. We would get dressed, whether it was a, if we had school for the first two weeks, we didn't dress up in our uniforms because we didn't have school. But like, once we're already, we dressed up in our uniform. And we went to breakfast. And then our first class started after breakfast. So we would have that first class for about an hour. And then we would have the second class, and then lunch. And then we would have the, we would have lunch basically, and then we'd have our last class. And then we will go back to, to our bunks. And then it was depending on which date, because Friday's we didn't have school. And it was fun. We would either, if we had time to organize our bunks or do anything, we wouldn't have any time off with just, if there was something that needed to be done, then it had to be done. Certain days we'd have laundry and other days we had like, like training, training skills. I think this is what it is to me, but it was more of like, like, you wouldn't know what you do each day. And it was, I can't really remember. So it prepared me for where I am today by showing me organization and life skills about you know, being, what's the word, prep basically, like, you're prepped for whatever you can take on for the day, whatever needs to be done, can be done. And if you have the will to do it, then it will, you will do it. But you still need to have that strong mind to be able to do what you can do to, to, to succeed basically. And it's helped me a lot with my, with my, my mental strength basically. Yeah. Good. Yes, I made friends while I was at the Academy. Mostly everybody there was a friend, everybody there was friends to each other. Nobody was really left out of anything. It was, it was new for me because it was a hard, hard thing for me to make friends. And when I went to the Academy at first, I didn't, I didn't think of about making any friends. I didn't think I was going to be friends with everybody that I was friends with. Well, basically, I was friends with everybody. But it was, it was different. Yeah. So my relationship with my college was, it was different from where they weren't trying to help me be comfortable. They were trying to get me out of my comfort zone. Instead of, you know, telling me something is right when it's really wrong. And they're really a big help to me being there as a person. And they were, they weren't like, how do you say they weren't, they were straight up, basically. Like if, if they knew I could do it, they, they were very motivational, motivational towards all the, all the the students, basically. And it really helped a lot. Not as much as I like, but I, I do stay in contact with some, you know, once in a while. And message throughout. Because we have, I have most of my friends on social media. And, you know, I'll say, hey, once in a while, how are you doing. And all that. But, you know, we're still friends, but it's like long distance, you know, today I am doing, finishing the last of my high school, which I will graduate in June. And I'm working a friend desk job at a motel until I, you know, finish school. Mostly I'm trying to get into a trade school for automotive engineering. Yeah, that's what I'm doing very much. This program did help me very much. It enlightened me in ways that I never thought I would be able to accept. It gave me a new way of doing life a different way. It was better for me because I, you know, I could, I got out of my habits. I got out of my comfort zone. Even though it was for, for nine weeks, it did a lot. I wish I would have been there for the whole, you know, the whole six months to see how, how it would have been then. But, you know, just in those nine weeks, it did teach me a lot about life. I definitely recommend this program. This program is, it is, I don't want to say hard because it really is not, you can get through it if you're willing to.