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Welcome to my ePortfolio! My name is Amy Bates, and I spent the first eight years of my life in a small area just south of Richmond, Virginia, and I’d like to think I was a happy kid. I’d run around with the neighborhood kids causing trouble, and I can still vividly remember having snowball fights that spanned the whole neighborhood, chasing each other through the woods, and climbing all over the trees. My sister and I both learned how to ride our bikes in the small cul-de-sac we lived on, and we both skinned our knees there falling, too. My mom would always help us up, and eventually, we were both steady enough on our bikes to continue. It felt like falling all over again when she told us we were moving away.

 

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania is where I spent

the next ten years, and it took quite a bit of adjustment to live there. Suddenly, I didn’t know anyone except for my family, and I felt all alone in a completely unfamiliar place. However, after a couple years, my family and I were completely settled in with friends from school and clubs. We both ended up in the marching band, though with completely different roles and at completely different times. When she left for college, it wasn’t so bad for me because I had made friends and was able to keep going without her being close by. I also had my mom, who, like always, helped me out whenever I felt like I was falling. Eventually, it came time for me to figure out what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go. It took a lot of deliberation, but I finally decided where to go to college.

 

 

SUNY New Paltz is where I hope to spend my next four years, and I feel just like I did when I was eight years old, floundering in a new place with no one familiar. However, like then, I will be getting back up, righting myself, and continuing on. Patience is, like my mom constantly reminds me and my sister, a virtue, and with time, I will settle into a new place all over again. I can’t wait to explore all of campus and see what the next four years at New Paltz has in store for me!