:: eye of the storm ::


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A 27-year-old PA student who wants to visit all seven continents, write a book, work at a pediatric clinic in Africa, and basically meet as many of the world's challenges as possible.

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Life List

(already accomplished)

Become a PA

Visit all 7 continents

Take a SwimTrek trip

Bike through Western Europe

Raft the Grand Canyon

Improve my Spanish proficiency

Go on safari in Africa

Trace my roots at Ellis Island

Vacation in Hawaii

Work on a hospital ship in a Third World country

Celebrate New Year's in Times Square

Visit all 50 states (29 to go: AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, RI, SD, TX, UT, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY)

See the ruins at Pompeii

Swim in Capri's Blue Grotto

Tour Mt. Vesuvius

Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain

Tour the Colosseum

Visit the D-Day beaches

See the Mona Lisa

Visit the palace at Versailles

See the Acropolis and Parthenon

See the Egyptian pyramids

Hike the Inca Trail

Walk El Camino Santiago

Take an Alaskan cruise

View the Taj Mahal at sunrise

Hike Table Mountain in South Africa

Climb through the Amazon canopy

Walk at least part of the Great Wall of China

Get laser hair removal

Learn to surf, ski, and snowboard

Learn to drive a stick-shift

Learn to play the piano

Go on a tropical cruise

Ride horseback on the beach

Ride in a hot air balloon

Get tickets to the Olympics

Go to adult Space Camp

Witness a shuttle launch from up close

Build a full-sized snowman

Sew a quilt out of my old race T-shirts

Update and continue my Life Scrapbook

Become the oldest person to ever do the River Run

Live to be a happy, healthy 100 years old - at least!

(unlikely dreams)

donderdag 28 augustus 2003

Current Music: Marco Borsato - "Iemand zoals jij”

Pretty pretty song… (sorry Maurice… LOL!)

Anyway, today was a good day. I went to Edah, ABN-AMRO, and HEMA (Americans: Publix, the bank, and Target… LOL!). I activated my bank cards, discovered that Mom’s transfer did indeed go through (yay!), and went on the promised shopping spree… only to discover that my Visa won’t work in HEMA, so it was doubly good that the wire transfer worked. And I had a broodje Mario for lunch – YUM!!! Hadn’t had one of those since I was in the city with Linde that time… was that Thanksgiving or spring break? I think it must have been Thanksgiving… anyway, yumyumyum.

Haven’t done anything particularly stupid yet today (knock on wood)… unless you count the Visa incident in HEMA… oh yeah, and buying blank paper instead of lined paper, but hey, that could happen to anyone, right? (Right???) Haha… Oh yeah, and accidentally kicking and breaking that glass on the Neude, right outside the bank, but that wasn’t my fault… don’t leave glasses on the ground if you don’t want them broken.

I really like this public transportation they have here. They are FAR superior to America in that. I love the buses and trains – it makes you feel independent to be able to just read a schedule and then get on the right vehicle and go wherever you want to. Pretending the whole time that this is completely normal for you, of course. :-)

By the way, D and D, you were in my dream last night because I was in a bad train wreck just outside Zwolle on the way to see you two… make what you will of that, LOL! Hope it’s not one of those prophetical dreams like I kept having at camp… last year I dreamed that everyone at camp was at a funeral, and then I woke up and a horse had died. Then this year I dreamed my left wrist was going to get hurt, and then my smallest camper hurt her left ankle (which is the size of my wrist) and I had to take her to the hospital… and there was one other ‘oh, creepy!’ example, but I can’t remember what it was now. (My campers would wake me up every morning with “What did you dream about, Jess?!” LOL!) Anyway, hope this isn’t one of those! :S

Scott will be back tomorrow afternoon, so I might get my phone and/or bike then…

GTST tonight, everybody! :-) (Annoying that it’s only 30 minutes, though… why not an hour?)

Ciao for now…

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