“I’m in the Symphonic Choir and Soul’d out as well. We do ICHSA and Rose City Sing-Off for Soul’d Out, and those are really fun it’s a nice bonding experience for Soul’d Out because we literally spend the whole day together just practicing and hanging out with the other groups even though it’s really stressful a lot of times. The Rose City Sing-off consists of about nine schools, where we compete in choreography. There’s workshops and one of the acapella groups from the University of Oregon comes and they teach us stuff as well.

My sisters are my main source of inspiration because my whole family is really musical and my older sisters have been in choir for their whole lives. I did choir in elementary school, but I did orchestra in middle school. In high school, I picked up choir again because I saw my sisters in Soul’d out and it looked really fun. I grew up in Woodburn and lived there for eight years, but my dad worked in Wilsonville. We moved because my dad was already driving to Wilsonville every day and my older sisters were going to middle school here. My sisters went to Wood while I was still in Woodburn. I started doing orchestra around 4th grade because I wanted to; I don’t actually remember why. My older sister played cello in middle school, and then I was like, ‘Oh- I want to play the violin’, but my parents told me that I would never get a violin because it was so screechy and they would hate it, but they got me a violin for Christmas. I started playing and was in the advanced orchestra with like five other kids. It was fun, but I quit before high school because I wanted to do choir and just didn’t have room in my schedule for both. I want to graduate from college, preferably BYU Provo. I might go mission too, but I don’t know yet. I have to get over bugs and weather first.”