:: 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)

zondag 23 november 2003

Current Music: Elton John - "I'm Still Standing"

Will you kindly STOP that godforsaken banging?!?! Someone down the hall is hammering something and it keeps stopping, starting, stopping... If I can push tacks into this crappy wall with my bare hands - and I can - then there is NO reason for you do that, whoever you are!

Went to Lunetten - navigated the train, found the building, talked to the receptionist, went upstairs looking for I and then came back down and talked to the receptionist again, then found I, got the tickets, gave her my money, and came back to Utrecht - all without one single word of English! :) I mean, I guess I do that all the time, but I really noticed it this time because I had to go through a receptionist and all. And I understood every single word that was said. I'm really getting good at this. :) (And modest, too...)

Tomorrow: gotta go to my UU class and take a mini-test, then skip the second half and [STOP THAT BANGING!!!] jump on my bike and race over to Boswell and try to catch the test that I have over there. Sigh. Oh well, it's only tomorrow and then two more Mondays, and then it'll be fine... Boswell will be over and nothing will conflict anymore. Knock on wood. :)

So that's tomorrow... Tuesday I have Boswell and no UU, then I'm going to Vinkeveen again with poor overworked P who finally gets half a day off, then skipping Boswell Wednesday morning (om lekker uit te slapen in Vinkeveen) but then going to UU class at 13.00... and then the rest of the week, who knows? :)

S is still not back from Paris... doesn't he have class tomorrow? Maybe he decided to stay another night and come back early tomorrow. Or maybe he's skipping Monday. Who knows?

A e-mailed me again with W's e-mail address - that's the guy I'm going to tutor - so I mailed him this afternoon. In English. Hope he could understand it. But I did say (in Dutch) that if he didn't understand something, to say so... but I want him to correspond with me in English right from the start so I can really get an idea of what he can do.

Going to stick those tickets on eBay now. Ciao!

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