I started my Bucket List back in 2010 and thought I'd update it a bit. A select few are specifically on my 30 things to complete before/during my 30th year. I'll highlight those in orange.
Note: The newly completed items on my list are marked with a date without being crossed off.
Note: The newly completed items on my list are marked with a date without being crossed off.
- Cycle across Canada for something I believe in
Find a starfish in the Ocean (Completed in the Bahamas, April 2010)- Take a father-daughter trip to soak in some European architecture :)
- Take a mother-daughter trip
- Travel to:
- Tokyo (to visit my brother and see his life over there) Planned for March 2012!
- Italy
- Ireland
- Switzerland (my mum's favourite European country)
- Newfoundland
California (Completed Dec 2009)Romania (Completed Summer 2003)London (Completed August 2003)- Austria
- Papua New Guinea (to see my cousin and get a glimpse of her life)
BC (Completed when I was little, but revisited as an adult June 2009)NYC (Completed for the first time on a grade 12 drama trip)- Texas
- Boston (Completed October 2010)
- Africa & go on a safari
- Arizona
- The Wave, Utah (and photograph it!)
- Greece
- The peak of Mount Sinai (Completed August 2010)
- Spain
- Tanzania
- Argentina
- Chile
- Nepal
- Bora Bora or Fiji
- Barcelona
- The Galapagos Islands
- Use nothing but a bike for transportation for an entire month (aside from cross-Canada tour)
- Become a published author
Couch-surf (Completed May 2011, in Memramcook, New Brunswick)- Have my artwork displayed in an art gallery
Participate in a worship service at Westminster Abbey in London (Completed August 2003)- Own a dog (:
- Photograph the International AIDS conference
Take a train trip! (Completed May & June 2011 from New Brunswick to Montreal, and then on to Toronto)- Photograph a destination wedding (The Bahamas! Completed May 2010)
- Volunteer in Africa doing something related to the AIDS epidemic
- Fall in love
- Have some babies
See a Shakespearean play in the Globe Theatre in London (Completed August 2003)- Go an entire year without buying anything new (shoes, furniture, clothes, etc.)!
- Spend up to one month living on reserves learning about the history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples
- Publish a photography book (going to print Dec 2011!!)
- Sell my photography book in a book store
- Go SCUBA diving or snorkeling in tropical waters (Completed in Dahab, Egypt. August 2010)
- Live debt free
- Learn to speak/understand
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Publish a coffee table book showing the similarities between Israelis and Palestinians
Ride a camel in Egypt- Grow a vegetable garden
- Pierce my nose :) (Completed February 2011)
- Read 30 books
- See Rod Stewart in concert
- See Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe Crhistmas show
- Launch a business branding company (I have my first clients. The official launch is planned for Dec 2011)
- Move & make my new place a creative and inspiring space (moving date Jan 1st, 2012!)
- Buy a really great piece of used furniture and re-furbish it
- Upgrade my photography equipment to Nikon's professional line
- Re-brand Red Umbrella & launch new website and business cards
- Host a potluck for local professional photographers
- Enter a photograph in one of the WPPI photography competitions
- Learn to read lips
- Go to bed before midnight every night for a month! (As I write this post at 1:30 a.m.)
- Join a choir (Completed December 2010)
- Take a train trip with Erin Leis!
- Tithe consistently
- Go on a hot air balloon ride (preferably in Petra but anywhere will do to complete this in my 30th year)
- Learn to surf (Completed May 2011 in Monterey Bay, California)
- Swim in 5+ oceans or seas (Completed: Pacific, Atlantic, Red Sea, Dead Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Galilee)
- Learn to cook a Thai dish and an Indian dish
- Open an Etsy store
- Visit the Toronto Zoo
- Present about Israel-Palestine in 100 Cities
- Kitchener (Grandview Baptist Church, September 2009)
- Puslinch (Crieff Hills, October 2009)
- Waterloo (University of Waterloo, March 2010)
- New Hamburg (Private event, 2010)
- Jerusalem (August 2010)
- Toronto (Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church, February 2011)
- Present about Israel-Palestine in each Province in 2011
- BC
- Alberta
- Saskatchewan
- Manitoba
Ontario- Quebec
New Brunswick- Nova Scotia
- PEI
- Newfoundland and Labrador
What's on YOUR bucket list?? I'd love to hear it. Maybe I'll add some of your ideas to my list! (:
