The Bucket List

IN KOREA

• Go to as many festivals as possible

[1] Yeongcheon Herbs Festival

[2]Daejeon Rock Festival

• Speak Survival Korean fluently
• Have an authentic Korean dinner at someone’s house
• Try on a traditional Korean outfit
• Cook a traditional Korean dish
• Draw a comic about Korea
• Witness a Korean wedding
• Make a Kpop video with friends
• See 2ne1 in concert
• See Clazziquai in concert [1]

 

TRAVEL

• Japan
• Thailand

[1] August 2010

• Cambodia
• Great Wall
• Costa Rica
• Spain
• New Zealand
• Ride the whole Trans Siberian Railway
• Machu Pichu
• Argentina
• Catacombs in Rome
• Aurora Borealis
• Pantheon
• Road trip through America
• Touch all 5 oceans (3 of 5)

Korea

• Jeju Island
• Dokdo Island
• Busan
• Seoul

[1] Lotte World [2] Seoul Tower

IN LIFE

Adventure

• Walk the length of Manhattan with Joe
• Climb to the top of a mountain, at least 14,000 ft.
• Gallop on a horse on open terrain and a beach
• Jump from the 30 foot cliff in Allentown I failed to do last time
• Fire a real sniper gun
• Ride a hot air balloon
• Go paragliding
• Go Zorbing
• Ride the largest roller coaster
• Experience weightlessness – zero gravity
• Have an epic battle in public using cardboard armor
• Create a slip and slide with soap on a hill
• Learn to figure skate
• Skydive
• Vacation at a vineyard
• Sleep in a castle
• Go on a haunted hayride
• Find a fossil
• Dig up my own gemstone
• Go on a cruise
• Stay in an ice hotel

Animals

• Watch turtles hatch and help them get to the ocean
• See a panda in its natural environment
• Swim with dolphins
• Save a beached whale
• Own a dog
• See a red panda

Books and Hobbies

• Write a children’s book
• Build a dollhouse
• Paint with oils
• Keep an herb garden
• Finish my scrapbook from Australia
• Finish my scrapbook from college and the later years
• Make an origami mobile
• Wittle a figure from wood
• Create a family history book
• Burn my VHS home videos to DVDs
• Paint on a  super large canvas and a large wall.
• Read all the books from 101 Books to Read Before You Die
• Write and publish a novel
• Write and publish a travel memoir
• Built a real treehouse
• Have a photography portfolio
• Win a photography contest!
• Learn the constellations and their related Greek myth
• Dress up for a Renaissance Fair

Food

• Create a Martha Stewart Thanksgiving
• Make bubble tea
• Create a professional cake made with fondant
• Go on a Food tour through Rome
• Create my own ice cream flavor
• Eat fugu
• Create a cookbook for the family
• Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taiwan
• Safe House restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisc.
• Prohibition restaurant in San Diego

Music and Dance

• Sing in a musical again
• Learn to play the piano
• Be in a band
• Learn to play River Flows in You on the piano
• Sing a song in another language
• Learn to tango
• Try the German Wheel
• Go backstage on a Cirque du Soleil Show
• Be in a Broadway show
• Dance the Thriller at the NYC Halloween Parade
• Go to a ball
• Go to a Masquerade Ball
• Participate in a Murder Mystery [1]
• Participate in Accomplice in New York City
• Participate in Watson Adventures: Scavenger Hunt in New York City

Personal

• Memorize my favorite poem
• Become an early riser
• Find the hidden box
• Own a home
• Go away for college
• Do a backflip
• Change someone’s life completely for the better
• Donate 25 gallons of blood
• Get laser eye surgery
• Take care of my parents when they move back to El Salvador
• Selflessly and sacrificially help a complete stranger
• Have a room full of books

Vocational

• Join the Peace Corps
• Build a Habitat for Humanity house
• Start my own business
• Create a dress or a top out of my own design
• Work for an organization focusing on sex trafficking
• Own a bookshop/cafe
• Work on a farm for more than a weekend