Simya Rush-Martin
Simya posing with her painted brick.
Transcript
Katy Clune: [00:00] Okay, we're rolling. Go ahead and introduce the team.
Lauren Parker: Yeah, all right. So today is May 10th, 2025. My name is Lauren Parker.
Victoria Bittrick: My name is Victoria Bittrick.
Lauren Parker: And would you also state your name?
Simya Rush-Martin: [00:11] My name is Simya Rush-Martin.
Lauren Parker: Would you mind spelling that also?
Simya Rush-Martin: S-I-M-Y-A-R-U-S-H hyphen M-A-R-T-I-N.
Lauren Parker: [00:22] All right, perfect. And yeah, is there any other information that you kind of want to just get started off talking about? Like maybe age, you know, where you're from, anything like that.
Simya Rush-Martin: [00:30] I'm 18. I'm from like Charlottesville as my area. I'm an upcoming photographer. I love photography.
Lauren Parker: [00:43] Yeah, well, let's talk about photography. How did you get into that? Like, when did you start, you know?
Simya Rush-Martin: [00:49] So photography, I started photography my freshman year of high school. Well, I started my interest my freshman year of high school because it was this girl.
[01:01] She was my friend. And like, I always seen her with the camera. And she like used to just teach me stuff like on her camera, like how to use it and like let me like play with it and like take pictures.
[01:10] And I just started to realize, I'm like, bro, like I actually like doing this. Like I have interest in this. I'm like, I'm going to take the class my sophomore year.
[01:20] So then I took like the photography class my sophomore year. I loved it. Like did everything like on time, all of that. And then like I went and bought my own camera, found a name that I wanted to like name my photography, like brand or whatever.
[01:36] And then like I'm still starting off. So like right now I'm trying to like set up my website. But like, I have like an Instagram page for it and stuff like that. And I'd be doing like sports photographies and I'm getting into portraits.
[01:51] But like I started off doing like sports photography with like football to be exact. And then like expanded. And like, yeah.
Lauren Parker: Yeah, that's really cool. Well, I'm interested in both of it, like sports photography and portraits. But how did you get into sports photography as something? Was it like more hobbyist? Like you liked sports, so you went and then?
Simya Rush-Martin: [02:11] Because I feel like it's more to catch. Like, yes, like when you're doing portraits, of course, it's something to catch. Because it's like the main person. And then it's like that.
[02:20] But like with sports, like you have the ball. You have who's running the ball. Like the action shots. I just like fell in love with like taking action shots and catching people in the moment of them doing what they were like.
[02:32] Yeah, kind of like the off guard kind of nature of just like somebody in motion.
Lauren Parker: Yeah. Are there any like shots that you've taken that, you know, that you really like? Like your favorite shots or that stand out to you or maybe people? Or a particular game that was fun to?
Simya Rush-Martin: [02:48] A fun to shoot?
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: [02:51] I honestly feel like Albemarle High School's like basketball team was probably my favorite to go shoot. Only because the games got so intense.
[03:01] So like you could really get better like action shots or what's going on. Like people dunking or like a really nice layup or something like that. Like you can catch it in motion where it's really good.
[03:12] Rather to where like. In some basketball games it's just boring. So it's like you're just running up and down the court with the ball.
[03:20] And then like football. I also have a really big interest in football and like sports. Because like you got the quarterback. You can catch the quarterback in action and him throwing the ball. Then you have the person running the ball.
[03:31] And then like you also can get videos and like pictures of people getting tackled. So it's like I don't know.
Lauren Parker: [03:38] Oh yeah. And so do you go to Albemarle High School now or is that?
Simya Rush-Martin: [03:42] No. I go to Monticello.
Lauren Parker: Okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: [03:44] But like our sports team.
Lauren Parker: Oh. Okay. Well maybe that's a good segue to just talking about school. So you go to Monticello now.
[03:54] But you're from Esmont. So presumably maybe you went to Yancey. But yeah. Do you want to talk about kind of your educational trajectory?
[04:03] Like where are you into middle and high school or middle and elementary school?
Simya Rush-Martin: [04:06] So first like I started school at Greer from Bright Stars to second grade.
Lauren Parker: Okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: [04:13] I loved Greer but like I had trauma. I was a little traumatized at Greer because I like the basketball court I bust my head open. On the basketball court.
[04:24] But it was like a couple of like months before I moved to come to Yancey. And then I came to Yancey from second grade to fourth grade I'm pretty sure. Because then they closed.
[04:38] And like that's when we were going through like all the like we had to go visit the new school. We had to like get used to like oh we're not going to go to Yancey no more. Like we're going to have to go to Scottsville with different kids we don't know.
[04:52] And all of that stuff. So it was like we toured the school. We had to meet the kids. And like a lot of us just thought we weren't going to like it or like that wasn't going to be the school for us.
[05:02] But it wasn't that bad. We all ended up finding our friends, finding our people. Then it kind of just played out through there.
[05:12] Fourth and fifth grade at Scottsville. I feel like I still had like some of the teachers I knew from Yancey. And then like the new teachers they weren't that bad.
[05:29] And then like middle school I went to Walton. For the most part I liked Walton. But like I don't know how to put this.
[05:43] I feel like Walton is not a pretty diverse school. So like Walton not being a diverse school it was like we probably like we deal with a lot of racism all the time or something like that.
[05:57] Which you're going to deal witharacism or something anywhere because that's just how people are in some cases and scenarios.
[06:05] But other than that I really liked going there. I liked my teachers. Like yeah there's some teachers you're not going to like.
[06:11] But like I liked my teachers. And like overall it was a good school like learning and like getting my education wise. So I can't really say nothing about them.
[06:22] Then high school, all of high school I went to Monticello. And Monticello was a bumpy ride. But I made it and I'm about to graduate.
Lauren Parker: [06:31] Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: So excited.
Lauren Parker: [06:34] Oh and it's May. When is your graduation?
Simya Rush-Martin: The 29th.
Lauren Parker: Okay. Oh gosh that's so exciting. Well, okay, I'm going to jump back to like elementary school. But I want to get back to high school and I haven't forgotten prom.
[06:43] But it sounds like you know for elementary school there were a couple different schools that you went to. So I guess for Yancey in particular do you have, do you potentially remember like your first day of school? I know you said you busted your head like the day, or a couple months before. But do you remember that first day of coming to Yancey? Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: [07:01] My first day coming to Yancey, honestly I was in this classroom. Like I got.
Lauren Parker: [07:06] I was going to say Zayden said the same thing that this was the second grade classroom. So that makes sense.
Simya Rush-Martin: [07:11] Oh my god my name is right there.
Lauren Parker: On the door?
Simya Rush-Martin: Yeah.
Lauren Parker: Oh I see it.
Simya Rush-Martin: [07:17] You see it in green.
Lauren Parker: Oh okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: [07:20] Well yeah. I came in like of course I was shy. But like I've always been a kid who could like talk or like talk to people. So it wasn't like bad like coming in.
[07:31] It was very welcoming. And then like I don't know what else for real. Like it was just. Yeah.
Lauren Parker: Any other memories generally from Yancey then? I keep looking at your name on the door.
Simya Rush-Martin: [07:43] Yes. We had this one thing. It was like an expo. It was called the expo market here at Yancey.
[07:50] And like the expo market was we all had our own like arts and craft groups that we got to pick. Like a different teacher ran. And I'm pretty sure the whole school did it or just upper class.
[08:02] Like older. But we like picked out a design or something that we wanted to do and make it. And like the group I was in we made like paper out of paper.
[08:15] I don't know. It was like we used to take the paper.
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: Used to like shred it all up and stuff. Wet it. Then like it would make like a different colored paper or something after we like blended it up.
[08:26] And it would like be like thicker than like a normal piece of paper. And like you probably wouldn't be able to like draw on it or anything. But like how it looked was like pretty. And it was like an expo market.
[08:40] So like people could come and like buy the stuff that we made. And it was all just like DIY stuff. I really liked that. And then I really liked the after school program here.
[08:51] Like Club Yancey was really. We did a lot of fun stuff. The staff was fun.
[08:59] I do have a really big memory of doing the bricks. Like we painted bricks.
Lauren Parker: [09:07] Oh, yes.
Simya Rush-Martin: Before we all left. That's a big memory. Every time I come here, I go and look for my bricks.
Lauren Parker: [09:13] I was going to say, can you describe your brick for us? Because I'm going to go. I'm going to go out and look at y'all's bricks too now that I know. I think I can put a name to a brick.
Simya Rush-Martin: [09:20] Oh, yeah. My brick literally just says my name. Like I just.
Lauren Parker: [09:23] I think I can picture it honestly.
Simya Rush-Martin [09:26] Mine says my name with some colorful stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Lauren Parker:[09:30] But it's really nice to, you know, come back to the school and like see those.
Simya Rush-Martin: [09:34] The bricks.
Lauren Parker: [09:35] Literally the memories of you. Whereas if this were a school, you know, maybe they would have.
Simya Rush-Martin: And all the kids I went to school with. And like everything. It's like, oh, my God. I remember them. Or like I remember her. Yet we were still friends till the day. Like stuff like that. Seeing the different bricks and stuff. It's just like, oh, my God.
[09:51] Like I remember when we were this little. Actually in the school. Doing this stuff. Yeah.
Lauren Parker: And so do you come to Yancey frequently? I know you mentioned like every time you come, you see the bricks.
Simya Rush-Martin: [10:01] I don't come here that often. But if there's like an event or something going on. I may come down and join it.
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: Other than that.
Lauren Parker: Yeah. Well, tell me a bit more about Club Yancey. Because I've heard that a couple times.
[10:16] So it's the after school program?
Simya Rush-Martin: Yeah. So Club Yancey, it was different age groups. Like, you know, you got to stay with your age group as a kid.
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: [10:26] School and stuff. So it was like different age groups. And like you would go with your like team lead, I guess.
[10:33] Or like you would do the stuff in like your classroom. Or like they would have like different activities and stuff for us to do. Then we would go have some time in the gym where everybody would play and stuff together.
[10:46] Go outside. Make little fun arts and crafts. Go to the water park across the street.
Lauren Parker: [10:53] Water park? Oh. Tell me more about that. Simpson Park has a water park?
Simya Rush-Martin: [10:57] Yeah. It has a water park and stuff. So we used to like go over there sometimes. It was good times. I feel like all I can remember is good times from here.
Lauren Parker: [11:08] I mean, that's good. Did a lot of like your classmates from Yancey seem to come to Club Yancey after school?
Simya Rush-Martin: [11:17] Yeah. I feel like it was like pretty accurate. Like Club Yancey. That was also a big change.
Lauren Parker: [11:24] Yeah. When you went to-
Simya Rush-Martin: [11:25] Going to Scottsville and then like not having Club Yancey no more as the after school program. Because then like some of us, we would have to like sign up for the Boys and Girls Club.
[11:35] We weren't used to going to Boys and Girls Club. We never been there because we always had Club Yancey after school or like sign up for after school at Scottsville. And it's like, I don't know what they do.
[11:46] But like I got to do one of them. Like me and my sisters, we signed up for Boys and Girls Club.
[11:53] And Boys and Girls Club pretty much was like the same thing as Club Yancey. But they just had like more field trips, I guess I would say.
Lauren Parker: [12:00] Oh, okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: Because they have like, you know, the bus, Four Boys and Girls Club and stuff like that.
Lauren Parker: [12:06] Okay. Well, so you have sisters. So I didn't ask you about your family. But tell me a little bit about your siblings. Are you, you know, the middle child, oldest, youngest, whatever?
Simya Rush-Martin: [12:15] I'm the middle child.
Lauren Parker: Okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: [12:17] Yeah. So I have an older sister that's 21. And I have a younger sister who's 17. She just turned 17 in March.
[12:26] Forgot about that. But yeah. So those are my two siblings. I feel like we're all pretty close.
Lauren Parker: [12:33] Yeah, close in age.
Simya Rush-Martin: We're close in age and we're all like really close. Especially me and my younger sister because we have like that little age gap.
[12:41] So it's like everybody around us is doing the same stuff. We're in that same age group. So it's like we're always together. It's literally like my little twin.
Lauren Parker: [12:50] Yeah. I was going to say, what's it like to go to school with your sisters in the same kind of age as you? Like especially 17 and 18, right? Like I'm sure y'all were, you know, one group behind each other.
Simya Rush-Martin: We literally are one grade behind each other. So like I'm going to be like, I know she's going to be upset, but I'm going to be so upset like leaving her when I graduate. Because we've just been in school together for like our whole life pretty much.
[13:15] Like may have that one year without each other because like one of us in eighth and one of us in ninth or one of us in fifth and one of us in sixth. But like other than that, we've been together like the whole time. So it's like, dang, I'm really about to leave my little sister.
Lauren Parker: [13:30] Yeah. Are there any, I mean, I'm sure there's so many memories that you have with your sister given, you know, just how close y'all are. But does anything like stand out to you? It doesn't have to be about Yancey, but, you know, or Scottsville Elementary or anything like that.
Simya Rush-Martin: [13:44] In school, any memories of me and my sister?
Lauren Parker: Or out of school. I just know it's such a broad question. Like someone that you love so much, like one memory or a couple memories. But anything that you want to share?
Simya Rush-Martin: [13:57] I'll share some recent stuff.
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: My little sister dances on the dance team. So like recently she's been getting like opportunities and stuff to go dance for like the NBA, like dance at NBA games and like NFL games.
[14:12] So that's really fun. I dance at like one or two. But like I just dance here and there like when I have the time. If I'm not like working or like caught up with school, which I'm about to be out of school anyways.
[14:24] And it ends at 18, like the age group for dance is at 18. But like, yeah, that's really fun. And that's like a big experience.
[14:32] Like right now to her, she probably wouldn't like feel like, like she probably would feel like it's big, but like she probably would just be like, I'm just dancing. Because she's been dancing for so long.
[14:42] But it's like you're dancing and you made it to dance like, big.
Lauren Parker: [14:48] Yeah. Well, I guess on that note, you talked a little bit about photography right at the very beginning and that you dance. Kind of like artistically inclined. But are there any other subjects that you liked in school or like maybe you did take like art or something like that?
Simya Rush-Martin: [15:03] My favorite subject in school was math. Like I loved math for like till my senior year. I dropped my math class.
[15:13] But other than that, like math is definitely my favorite subject. I don't even know why, but like I love math. And then, no, I didn't take any other like arts or like anything like that.
Lauren Parker: [15:28] Yeah, that's okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: Just photography.
Lauren Parker: [15:30] So have you done dance? And like is the dance team something attached to your high school or is it something like outside of it?
Simya Rush-Martin: [15:38] The dance team is not connected to high school. But I am like that's actually my capstone project.
Lauren Parker: Oh.
Simya Rush-Martin: [15:44] To bring a major at dance team to Monticello before I graduate. Because my sister and me have been talking about it. But like we couldn't like get administration and stuff to like actually like stick and help us do it.
[15:59] But like now they're actually willing to like help us get it started. So I'm going like that's a part of my cap project. So I'm probably going to get them to dance at like a pep rally before school.
[16:11] And like I'm going to see if my principal can have a like in the school pep rally. Just so they can see like all the students can see like what it is. And like if they want to do it like oh yeah we can try this next year.
[16:21] Like yeah we can do this next year. And they can see what it is. So then like they can actually get it started when the school year starts next year. And they're not trying to just like jump into something with no type of like start for it.
Lauren Parker: [16:34] Yeah. Tell me a little bit more about your capstone. Is that something that like all seniors do at Monticello?
Simya Rush-Martin: [16:39] Yeah. Every senior at Monticello has to do a capstone project to pass or to even walk the stage. And your capstone project is pretty much you're doing good. You're fine. You're doing good cause and action. Like you're finding a cause and action basically.
[16:55] Well.
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: A problem. And then like a cause and action Yeah.
[17:00] So like I don't know what's a good example. Cause mine I feel like mine's a good example but it's not like a good example. Like say like people like would look outside and they like see like it's a problem that trees are like hanging on the power line.
[17:20] And they think like oh that should be fixed cause it's a hazard. They could have like did that as like their capstone project. And they could have made it better. Like like they could help.
[17:31] They could make steps to make it better. So like and they could like reach out to like different county like stuff to like ask could they help them and stuff like that. Yeah.
Lauren Parker: [17:41] Yeah. And I think your capstone definitely fits into that. You know like you saw you saw a gap in like programming that was available you know for people interested in that. You're bringing it in there. So I see it.
[17:52] I think I hadn't heard of that as like a requirement to graduate but I think that's kind of like.
Simya Rush-Martin: Crazy.
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: I don't like that.
Lauren Parker: Like it seems like something like later you're like oh like that was nice that I did that. But I know if I were at high school I'd be like.
Simya Rush-Martin: [18:05] Yeah. Yeah. It's literally like to graduate. I understand like oh yeah this is y'all's project. Do it. But to graduate I don't understand. Like yeah.
Lauren Parker: [18:16] Okay. Well I know in the beginning you talked about like Monticello being a rocky road. So maybe we'll talk about like what the the Walton Middle School to Monticello like transition was. You know presumably your older sister was there maybe or 21. Maybe not. Math is not my strong suit.
Simya Rush-Martin: [18:34] She graduated.
Lauren Parker: Okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: [18:37] Yeah. The year because it was the COVID years. And so like her graduation was the COVID year. I'm pretty sure like she didn't have a prom or anything.
Lauren Parker: Like 2022.
Simya Rush-Martin: [18:46] Yeah. Like she didn't have a prom or anything like that. So. And then as soon as she like graduated I went in.
Lauren Parker: Okay. Well yeah. So what was that transition like? It seems like that would have been like eighth to ninth grade. Was that COVID for you? Or maybe not?
Simya Rush-Martin: [19:02] Yes. We went to school with masks. Yeah. We went to school with masks on.
Lauren Parker: Oh. Okay. Yeah. What was that like? Any memories that stand out to you or just like kind of feeling?
Simya Rush-Martin: [19:13] I feel like the COVID era a lot of people just skip past it. Like a lot of people just forget like it even happened. And it's like we literally had a pandemic that was supposed to be.
[19:24] We were supposed to be put up like in our houses and stuff for like a week or three weeks or something like that. Then it turned into months.
[19:33] Then it came like a year thing where like a year to two year thing where we were like wearing masks constantly. It was stores were closing earlier because of the pandemic and like stuff like that.
Lauren Parker: [19:49] Yeah. I mean I almost I like I also forgot about it almost until we started doing these world issues. I was like yeah that is a thing that all happened to us.
[19:58] But I guess how do you feel like I know you mentioned you feel like people kind of like move past it or kind of like you know erased it in their minds maybe.
[20:10] But how do you feel like it affected your feelings about high school, your high school experience? And how does it feel now to have those milestones like going to prom and things like that and kind of having come back to it all?
Simya Rush-Martin: [20:21] I feel like the COVID year like online school learning I did not like it.
[20:30] Like I feel like on hand stuff is like more better to like help learn. Like it's better than just looking at a computer screen on Zoom.
[20:41] Your teacher's trying to tell you to do stuff. I just feel like that's not convenient. But like we had to do it because it was the pandemic. And then what else did I not like about the pandemic?
[20:53] Wearing masks wasn't very because like nobody was used to like walking around with a face mask constantly all the time.
Lauren Parker: We set a 20 minute timer just for purposes but go ahead. Oh that was all?
Simya Rush-Martin: Yeah.
Lauren Parker: [21:09] Okay. Well yeah well we can still keep talking if you like was there any I don't know if you had the forms but is there anything that you didn't get a chance to say? Is there anything that you wanted to talk about?
[21:25] Or just anything else like on your mind that kind of came up as you've been talking that you want to share or bring up? And Victoria do you have any?
Victoria Bittrick: [21:34] I kinda wanna hear about prom.
Lauren Parker: Oh yeah I kept saying I would come back to prom. Yeah okay. We could do, let's do prom. Yeah we can. But yeah how was it last weekend? Prom?
Simya Rush-Martin: [21:44] So I went to that that was my first prom, like my junior year prom I didn't go to prom. Yeah. But I went to prom to take photos.
[21:51] So like I was there but I wasn't like dressed up and stuff because I didn't take photos. And like I had always had said that I knew my senior year for sure I was doing orange.
[22:01] Like nobody could tell me anything. I knew for sure I was doing orange my senior prom for like since my freshman year of high school.
[22:11] And so then like not doing prom last year they like I thought you were going to wear orange. I'm like no, that's next year. And so then like it finally comes and everybody's like what color are you doing?
[22:22] I'm not telling anybody because it's like bro I already told y'all. And then so, I get to prom. Prom was actually really nice but, it was outside.
Lauren Parker: Okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: [22:33] It was at the X part.
Lauren Parker: Oh. Oh. Okay.
Simya Rush-Martin: Yeah.
Lauren Parker: I feel like you can make X very cute though.
Simya Rush-Martin: [22:40] Oh my gosh.
Lauren Parker: And I think X is fun.
Simya Rush-Martin: Yeah.
Lauren Parker: Just felt like a nice outdoor prom.
Simya Rush-Martin: I liked it but then like I also wasn't there with anybody because my friends were being weird that day. So it was like bro I just lost all my friends the same night as prom.
[22:53] But like I didn't really care because it's like I have other friends. But like bro. But like prom was really fun.
[23:00] I loved my outfit. And I kind of only went just to get like dressed just for the outfit.
Lauren Parker: Yeah. So can we see you dressed?
Simya Rush-Martin: Yeah. That's also what I was going to say like the X park at prom like the X park manager and stuff was there. And like they asked me.
Lauren Parker: Oh my gosh.
Simya Rush-Martin: Swipe.
Lauren Parker: Oh my God. What did I do? I'm sorry. Not me giving Boomer. I think I brushed it with like my thumb or something.
Simya Rush-Martin: [23:34] You're fine. We did-
Lauren Parker: Your dress is gorgeous. And I feel like the blonde really goes with it.
Victoria Bittrick: [23:44] That is your color.
Lauren Parker: You look beautiful. I like the car in the background, too.
Simya Rush-Martin: [23:55] Thank you. Like, this picture. This picture.
Lauren Parker: [24:04] You ate with that picture.
Simya Rush-Martin: This picture.
Lauren Parker: Those are your favorites. So who took your pictures?
Simya Rush-Martin: And this picture are actually, like, I took them at the X Park.
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: [24:14] In the X Park. My other ones, I took them at Boar's Head. And my friend named Majestic took my photos.
[24:24] He's, like, a photographer and stuff. He's, like, an upcoming photographer. So I got him to take my photos. Then I got this boy named Juan to take my photos as well. Both of them took my photos.
[24:34] And then, like, the X Park page, like, posted me.
Lauren Parker: Ooh.
Simya Rush-Martin: On their page.
Lauren Parker: [24:43] Oh, yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: Yeah, I, like, I was, like.
Lauren Parker: So it was in Looking Glass and in X, too? Because that's interesting. Those pictures turned out really well inside Looking Glass. With the lighting in there.
Simya Rush-Martin: [24:53] Yeah. And I, honestly, I didn't even know, like, what, like, the whole point of this was. But, like, he just, like, came up to me randomly. And just asked me to take it.
[25:02] And was, like, can I post this on the X Park? And I'm, like, of course. Like, why not?
Lauren Parker: Yeah. Well, it sounds like it was a fun night. And especially, like, a fun night of, you know, dressing up, leaving high school behind, etc.
Simya Rush-Martin: [25:14] Yes.
Lauren Parker: Yeah. Was there anything else that you wanted to add?
Simya Rush-Martin: No. I don't think so.
Lauren Parker: [25:24] No, no, no pressure, no pressure.
Simya Rush-Martin: I don't know, though.
Lauren Parker: Okay. Anything else for me, Victoria?
Simya Rush-Martin: Do you guys have any more questions?
Victoria Bittrick: No, I'm good.
Lauren Parker: [25:32] Yeah, I don't.
Simya Rush-Martin: Okay. Well, I hope this was, like, a good, you know, conversation. I know the word interview is kind of, like, ooh, you know, what's it going to be. But I hope this was fun.
Simya Rush-Martin: [25:40] Yeah.
Lauren Parker: I really enjoyed it.
Simya Rush-Martin: That's definitely how it was. I was, like, wait, what type of questions are they going to ask me?
Lauren Parker: Yeah.
Simya Rush-Martin: Am I gonna say the right stuff?