Hi, Kelly!  

Very interesting read for a number of reasons, including these: 

1. It's seldom we get to hear from somebody young in the Globe and Mail.  Not to say that people don't write about the under 25s.  It's just that usually, the writers are much older than those they write about.  Good to hear from you.

2. You wrote it, got it published and you're female. Outspoken females appear to be "trending." I recall  watching an ABC TV interview with four miners on their opinions of Pres. Trump's stance on coal. All coalminers interviewed were...women.  No men. Blew me away. It's the same elsewhere. Students volunteers with elderly? GIRL students. FN people want to state their views?  Aboriginal women outnumber those speaking by a wide margin.  So, question: what's the Alliance's male-female ratio...and why, do you think?

3. You skipped a step. Between cursive writing and coding is...keyboarding (once called typing). And that's all many of us--like me--need to embrace.