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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)

vrijdag 23 april 2004

So it's Friday again... I'm still in Emmen at the moment, and Martin's just left for work. I'm about to start typing a (short) essay, but I thought I'd post here first...

I ended up coming here late Tuesday night instead of Wednesday morning, and so on Wednesday we went to CenterParcs, another of those indoor water parks. The best thing was the wildwaterbaan... I could have done it all day! Then Thursday - yesterday - we went and looked at new cars for Martin, and then he had a football game that night. And you know, I'm proud of myself - looking at all those new (and used) cars, I did not immediately think, "Wow, I want this one... no, that one... no, no, THIS one..." ...I just wanted MY car, my Beetle. It's nice when you're really satisfied with what you have.

Oh, but I did drive a stick - Martin's current car - and really, that was so easy! The only sticks I had driven before yesterday were a Passat, a Mustang, and Lotte's Ka; I don't remember much about the Passat or the Mustang but Lotte's car was really difficult - you had to move the clutch and the gas in exactly the right way, or you'd pop the clutch and have to start over. Yesterday it went much easier; I went all the way into third gear and only popped the clutch one time, while backing up. Martin kept complaining that I was too far to the right (it was a narrow road where you're apparently 'supposed' to drive in the middle) but that was just our different 'training' - in America, if you have a road on which traffic flows both ways, you automatically stick to the right. Here, you don't, because the roads are much narrower. But anyway, so I was proud of myself again. :)

Mom, what's the status on the package? Along with the sport pants and the DVDs (Selena and Stepmom), could you also maybe send a new bottle of Excedrin? Oh, and another roll-on stick of that perfume Catie talked me into? She knows what I mean.

Hmm, okay, the keyboard is doing some very weird things all of a sudden - all the symbol keys are mixed up. I wanted to write more, but I'm gonna go before I lose this post...

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