:: 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)

zaterdag 20 december 2003

Current Music: Journey – “Any Way You Want It”

Okay, so I have a new favorite movie… The Green Mile. It was on Net 5 Thursday night. I had never seen it before and it’s really good! I love movies like that, that you have to figure out… P was watching too (says he’s seen it 11 times), and I kept SMSing my reactions… and funny, the three things that I couldn’t figure out where they fit – the bladder infection, the mouse, and the brain tumor – all turned out to be healed by John Coffey. So that was the link. And I even cried, which I never do during movies – I think the only other one that got real tears out of me was Armageddon. (Yet I still want to be an astronaut. I just want too many things! Astronaut, EMT, interpreter, doctor, author, teacher… LOL!) Anyway, the only disappointment was that it wasn’t realistic. Up until John mysteriously healed the bladder infection, the whole movie was fairly believable – and I liked it that way. I like movies that COULD be true, and this couldn’t. Plus, they never explained how it was POSSIBLE that he had these powers. But aside from that, I loved it.

Speaking of movies, Mona Lisa Smile came out in America yesterday. But I looked it up, and it won’t be out here until the end of January. Oh well, only a month, that’s not SO bad…

I’m going to meet R, the guy who’s buying my Shania tickets, at the station at 2 PM to make our little ‘exchange’ (it always feels like a drug deal, LOL! Meet up with someone you’ve never seen, money changes hands, you say ‘thanks’ and ‘have fun’, then part three minutes later.). Anyway, then I’m going to Lopik, where P is staying this week to take care of a colleague’s dog. That’s 30-40 minutes from Utrecht, but there’s no train station there, so I’ve got to go by bus. I think I’ve worked out which bus (195) and which stop (Vogelzang) it is, with the help of the Internet… or we might very possibly see a sequel to last month’s movie, “Jess Lost in Bilthoven”… LOL!

W says he’s coming back to Holland on Wednesday too! I wonder if he’s on the same plane as my family?? When he told me that yesterday, it didn’t even cross my mind, but it’s very possible – I mean, they’re all coming from Florida… hey W, is your aankomsttijd also 7.55 on Wednesday morning??

OK, well, nothing else to say really.

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