“I grew up in Papua New Guinea, which is a little island in the south Pacific. Everyone there walks around wearing Bob Marley t-shirts. It’s definitely very different from here: The roads are very bad. I love how free everyone is there in Papua New Guinea. I can literally go up to people in the middle of the street that I’ve never met before and just talk to them and hang out, and within ten minutes, we call each other, ‘brother,’ which is a really cool cultural dynamic. I love that it’s a tropical island, and yet I also get to live in the mountains. I can just walk outside my house and see these massive mountains and go hiking in them whenever I want. I really miss my friends and the community that I built over there. I’m excited to be here and do the same, but there’s definitely a lot of friends I left behind.”