The Bucketlist

I love lists, so this one is unavoidable: My bucket list!

Such a strange word… Fast forward 15 seconds… looked it up… and I understand it now, as it “derived from kick the bucket (“to die”) + list; hence list of things to do before you die.”

So what would I like to have done or attempted before I kick the bucket? Here we go:

• Go rockclimbing
• Paragliding
• Do a looping in an airplane
• Learn how to do an eskimoroll in a kayak
• Go down a class 3 river in a kayak (after having mastered previous point, preferably)
• Run a color run- race
• Run a mudrun
• Learn CPR
• Eat at a michelin-star restaurant
• Visit Easter island
• Learn to make porkchops as well as my mother can
• Try all Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors
• Eat a spider (consciously… one that has been prepared for consumption)
• Participate in an ayahuasca ritual
• Spend the night in a tree(house)
• Witness a meteorshower on a perfect night
• Look through a telescope
• Go swimming on horseback
• Go scubadiving
• Do one of those courses where they teach you what to do when your car goes into a crazy slip
• Roadtrip through Canada
• Learn French
• Learn web design
• Slaughter a chicken myself
• Watch a volcano erupt (live)
• See the aurora borealis (or aurora australis)
• Drive a bus
• Run 10k in under an hour
• Get my nails done
• Play icehockey
• Wear high heels (and not break my ankles)
• Donate blood
• Experience zero gravity
• Participate in a new year’s dive
• Build a piece of furniture from scratch (Not Ikea-style)
• Sing in a karaoke bar
• Go on a canopy tour
• Ride on the orient express train
• Learn to play pool
• Harvest honey from a bee hive
• Learn how to sew (neatly)
• Find a nice place for my hammock (folded up in a closet is NOT a nice place)
• Get over my fear of public speaking, or at least get better at it
• Get a dog
• Get a cat
• Get a donkey
• Get a goat
• Learn how to milk a goat
• Live in a house with enough space for a dog, cat, donkey and goat
• Learn to make cheese.
• Master lucid dreaming
• Visit India (and check out for myself what the fuss is all about)
• Get my astrological chart made
• Drive (?) a segway
• Be united with my two brothers, their kids and partners, all in the same spot at the same time
• Build something from recycled materials only
• Herd cattle on horseback
• Get rid of my shrimp allergy
• undergo an acupuncture treatment
• hitchhike somewhere
• stand in a big field of sunflowers in full bloom
• have someone take a pic of me amidst thousands of sunflowers
• fly first class in one of those super comfy reclining chairs
• Go to an FC Barcelona soccer match
• donate my hair to charity
• volunteer at my local refugee foundation
• Get my old red chair refurbished
• Take a course in massage (ayurvedic?)
• Create something I would be satisfied enough about to hang on my wall (photographs don’t count)
• swim / dive with a whale shark
• Chuck the list

I will update this list with new ideas and strike items once I have achieved them… We’ll see how it goes!

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