I need more ram!
I'm an interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village and once again I get to have this insatiable need to learn , learn and learn! I've always been fascinated with getting up in the morning not knowing something and then going to bed knowing something new. The village has certainly provided me with than and then some!
After ending a stage of my life as a business owner, I have been waiting for some sort of new shade of color to lead me to the next palette. I found that color with my volunteering as an interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village. In my life I have experienced some places where my creativity and passion just comes out effortless, like an inner addiction of constantly wanting to gain knowledge and information just to find yourself starting from zero. The more you learn the more you understand that you need to keep expanding and building these internal processes that start from a simple connection to very complex pathways. You either hear, read, or experience something that keeps you thirsty for more. Let me give you a specific example of what I'm talking about:
I'm working at the Asa Knight Store, a place where in the 1830s Mr. Knight was selling 2,000 items from all over the world, and one of the facts you learn is that the items came from all over the world except from Japan. You don't think much about it until one day a visitor says to you "Why didn't we trade with Japan? " So you make a mental note to either ask or do your own research about it. You decide to search for an answer to the question you didn't know and before you know it, you are not only finding out why we didn't trade with Japan, but the "discovery chain" keeps opening doors and windows and revealing more and more information. Now you go from learning about Japan and its trading practices, to American Commodore Matthew Perry signing the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening Japan to American trade. So a simple fact of "we had 2,000 items at the Asa Knight Store from all over the world except Japan" lead to a multiplying cascade of learning. It's so cool that a question by a visitor sparks the potential for not only learning but also recognizing how little you know the more you learn. So to make the long story short, I love realizing how little I know the more I learn. It's a never-ending circle of satisfying eternal loop that feeds my inner addiction of wanting to learn more just to understand how little I actually know. I found the my new shade of color as an interpreter at the Old Sturbridge Village.
