I will admit, wrapping my head around learning a new instrument has been overwhelming, especially on top of all of my other assignments for school. I felt confident about learning the ukulele when making my musicianship goal, but as my course work intensified, it seemed more and more daunting to get started on the process. What ended up motivating me to begin learning (aside from the rapidly approaching midterm report) was help from more experienced musicians. My sister has been great with answering any questions I have about the instrument; she even let me borrow her ukulele for the term. Another thing that has helped me greatly was the group session in our zoom meeting last Friday. It was very encouraging to get tips from my classmates and professor, and I found that this helped guide me in the direction I needed to go.