My Bucket List

Languages:

1. Become fluent in Spanish
2. Become fluent in Sign Language
3. Become fluent in one other language
4. Learn conversational/basic French
5. Learn conversational/basic Arabic
6. Learn conversational/basic German
7. Learn conversational/basic Italian
8. Learn conversational/basic Japanese
9. Learn conversational/basic Russian
10. Have my future children learn a second language along with English

Music:

1. Learn to play the piano
2. Learn to the play the guitar
3. Have my future children learn an instrument
4. Teach my future children about music of all genres and decades, their influences, their messages, etc.

Travel/Places to Go/See:

1. Drive Route 66
2. Tour a castle in Europe
3. Tour an old church in Europe
4. Visit all 13 original "colonies"
5. New York, New York  (was there for a very short period of time and want to go back!!)
6. Eat a hot dog in New York
7. Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn, New York
7. Universal Studios, Hollywood
8. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA
9. San Francisco, CA
10. Ride in a taxi (In Mexico & Chicago so far, still pulling for New York too)
11. Ride in a subway
12. Ride a city bus (I'm from the lame suburbs/small town life....)
13. Seattle, WA
14. Mexico (went to touristy places with family)
15. REAL Mexico (want to visit friends' home towns, etc)
16. Attend a Broadway musical in New York
17. See New York lights in Christmastime
18. Snorkel to see a ship wreck
19. Go rock climbing
20. Spend time living/working on farm
21. Spend time living in a big city (i.e. Chicago, New York, etc)
22. Spend time visiting/living in North Carolina with older brother as we never got to know each other growing up being so far apart in age, and to get to know my sister-in-law and nephew more.
23. Paris, France
24. Italy
25. Spain
26. Ireland
27. Nashville, TN
28. Los Angelus, CA
29. London
30. Set FOOT in every state
31. Anywhere and everywhere that I can - from small, unknown American towns to European top sighs to see to third world countries and everywhere in between.

Family:

1. Be a foster parent
2. Adopt a child
3. Have a large family
4. Pass on a family heirloom to my child

Animals:

1. Own a husky
2. Go horseback riding (went in Girl Scouts)
3. Go horseback riding as an adult, as often as possible!
4. Own a horse (yes, some of my goals are fictional!)

Hobbies/Things to Learn:

1. Learn how to play chess
2. Lean how to knit
3. Learn how to sew (by hand)
4. Learn how to crochet
5. Learn how to box
6. Learn how to kickbox
7. Learn the basics of some other form of self-defense (karate, etc)
8. Become good at archery
9. Learn how to shoot a gun
10. Learn how to throw knives (....what can I say, I have 2 older brothers)
11. Successfully change my own oil
12. Successfully change a tire

Education:

1. Get a college degree

Work:

1. Work in a movie theater
2. Work in a bookstore
3. Work in a hospital/clinic
4. BECOME A TEACHER (or social worker...or ...whatever God has planned for me!)

Miscellaneous:

1. Finish Book Bucket List
2. Have a small library
3. Discover my life's purpose
4. Read the Bible in full
5. Become a "sister" in Big Brothers, Big Sisters
6. Volunteer in children's hospital/ward
7. Go on a mission's trip (or several!)
8. Get a book published (or several!)
9. Get a poem published
10. Act in a play/musical outside of school/church


There are probably more that I am forgetting here....I left out some of the really fictitious ones.