For me twenty-twelve was a busy year. I did many fun things enjoyed new adventures made some new friends along the way. Some things I did this past year is get a job, see some of europe, start my senior year, go to empire girls state and much more.
The spring was filled with lots of time in school and getting ready for my AP exams. But during that time I did get to go and be my cousin Emily's confermation sponcer. That was a new experience for me as I had never been a sponcer. I was confirmed in 2009 with the name Cecila. After Saint Cecila the patron saint of music. It was fun to get to spend some quality time with my father and see members of his familt that I had not seen in a long time.
In the late spring I obtained a summer job at my second home, the Genesee Country Village & Museum. For me that was an adventure in and of itself I had been a volunteer there for the last five years, spending more than 1000 hours there. The job gave me the oppurtunity to learn more and to take what I had started in 2007 to a whole new level. With this job I got to talk to a lot of awesome visitors and learn a lot more about the lives of people past as well as I got to get to know on a friend level a lot of the other interpreters who I had used as role models. Over the summer I have worked in as an interpreter in three buildings, Foster Tufts House, Thompson's Inn, and George Eastmans Boyhood Home. I could go on forever about all that I learned and experienced there and the reasons why I cannot wait until next season but that might bore you to death.
For one week in June I got to spend a week at Brockport College for Empire Girls State. This experiences was trully life changing. There we set up a mock New York State governement and pasted legeslation some of which might end up in the NYS senate. Besides how much it opened up my eyes to the government and what we as citzens should be doing. I also learned a lot more about our militay what they do and why we need to respect and honor them and what represents them more. Ever been at a sports game and people are talking during the national athem or at school and people aren't respectful during the pledge? Those things now seem to annoy me a lot more than they ever did. My house mother is in the US Army as well as her husband an many of the other consolers or house mothers were in the military. During one of the talks given by the Albright Couty house mother was about how she was walking in NYC and saw this old women so she offered to help the old women of about 90 across the road. When the lady said no let me help you she walked with her to the other corner. Getting there the lady said I want to thank you for everything you've done for me, and showed the housemother her tatoo from Auschwitz. That story will stick with me forever on how much our military really does do and what we need to do as a US citizen because of what they have fought for. I got to spend and amazing week with girls from all over New York state. One of my room mates was from Manotock and another from Waterloo. We had girls from Brooklyn to Niagra. That was one of the best weeks I ever had and I would olve to go back and do it all over again.
Also over the Summer I got to spend almost two weeks in France and Spain. I got to see the Effiel Tower up close. One of the coolest exeriences for me was to swim in the Medditerrean. The water was so blue that we were out so far (on a boat) that it was 20 feet deep and you could clearly see the bottom. Also on that trip I saw a statum from the same era as the Colosseum that was still fully in tack and used. I loved seeing all of the old beauties of Europe and would go back again if I could.
This fall I spent most of my timing running or in school. Our senior girls won a fun Halloween 5K. Durining that race we had to run over haybales which was a lot of fun. I love my cross country family and can't believe that were all seniors and that this is the last year together.
Before Chritmas I partook in my favorite of the Museum event Yuletide in the Country. I was in two scenes one as a dance in the Town Hall where we were late to Robert's 12th night ball. And the other as Mary MacKay celebrating Hogmanay with her family. I loved all the Celticness of that scene. The bagpipes can never get old and I enjoyed the Haggis we had there. Though as you probably will learn I have a wee bit of Ireland in me blood that keeps me a bonnie lass loving the celtic ways,
