 I have Palestinian family, and I had always wanted to know more about them, understand, like, where they came from. So all these things kind of led into me deciding to leave and go to Palestine. Speaking to what Osa said, a lot of us have been engaged in a lot of Palestinian solidarity work here in the Bay Area for the last nine months, since October 7th, and before that as well, but, like, especially since the genocide on Gaza started.