[MUSIC] Hello, I'd like to tell you about a personal experience of mine. As an individual, I was born deaf. I also had a brother who was deaf. And I lived in a rural small town, country town. Not like Austin or Houston, we're talking small. I did have some deaf friends, but it is a very small community, so not many. I also had some hearing friends. And people told me I was deaf, and I still didn't understand completely what that was. Even when I would meet other people, a deaf adult, and I just felt like that was normal, that I didn't really see a difference. I'd see them interacting with the general population. So really didn't think a whole lot of it. And then I turned 16. I was doing some soul searching. I thought I would pay a visit to the residential school in Austin, Texas, Texas School for the Deaf. And typically each state will have one, maybe two residential schools for the deaf. Here in Texas we just have one in Austin. And as soon as I walked in, it was a major culture shock. The things that I noticed were so many deaf people around me that the language, the culture that I learned about, the history, the customs, the values, all these things that I was immediately starting to be exposed to. And it made a huge impact on me, on me personally. It gave me that identity. I was proud to be deaf. So I had the experience of being on two sides of that issue. And now learning about their history and culture, I'm very proud of being deaf.