Humans of DV: Week 51

Yiming Jia: “I first started playing the clarinet in 5th grade and have continuously been playing it for about six years. When I was in elementary school all my friends were in band so I wanted to join. My mom thought that the clarinet was the ideal instrument for me because it seemed easy to play and required less lung capacity than the others. After a while, I became extremely immersed in playing ...

Elisa Zhang: When you’re a kid, it’s your mom who forces you to go around and do all these activities. I think during the first few classes I cried, but that’s besides the point - I was a little kid, I didn’t have a say in things. Then, when I started making friends, I would talk a lot during class and be a nuisance, goofing off whenever I had a chance to. But over time, I realized that I r...

Dylan Le: I started making music because I wanted to express my love for music in a new way, apart from live performances. I played my first instrument in 5th grade, which was the flute for school band. At this point, it was just expected of me from my parents to delve into music, but I wasn’t too excited about what I was doing. It was the reason I stopped after only two years. My passion for musi...