My Bucket List

The movie "The Bucket List" is definitely one of my favorite movies, and it prompted me to start my own list of things that I want to do. I realize that I am only 20 years old, but I'm not going to wait until I am 50 or 60 something to start really living my life. Some things have happened recently that have reminded me that everyone should live life to the fullest and with no regrets. So here's my bucket list. I'll strike through the things that I do as I do them.

• break down cultural barriers at the university level (thank you LeaderShape!)
• have my writing published (doesn't have to be all of it, doesn't have to be a book. I'd be happy with a poem being published in a magazine)
• go to Comic Con (don't judge me and my nerd like tendencies...)
• Visit all 50 states 
• Hike up the Eiffel Tower (700 steps to the second observation deck...win!)
• Visit all of the national parks 
• Visit the Great Pyramids
• Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland (due to somewhat recent events, I will not be doing this one)
• Go to Oktoberfest 
• Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras
• Celebrate Carnival in Rio 
• Kiss the Blarney Stone...and have Listerine ready for when I am done
• Go back to Greece and go to the Greek Islands
• Hike to the top of St. Peter's Basilica
• Ride an elephant 
• Watch a meteor shower (wouldn't mind doing this one again)
• Cruise around cape Horn
• Visit all 7 continents
• cruise the Nile
• cruise the Amazon
• tour the Guinness brewery in Ireland
• see the Running of the Bulls
• go to a FIFA World Cup game (preferably a USA game)
• go to Amsterdam
• visit the Anne Frank house
• visit Auschwitz
• take a Harry Potter tour in England
• parasail in Hawaii
• go to Times Square for New Years Eve
• See Wicked live
• go to the top of the Washington Monument
• go to the Giraffe Manor (www.giraffemanor.com)
• go on an African safari
• visit the Great Wall of China
• go to Dubai
• adopt a kid from another country (only one or two...not looking to be the next Angelina Jolie here)
• go back to Alaska and go far enough North to see the Northern lights
• go to an All Blacks rugby game in New Zealand
• hold a koala bear in Australia 
• kiss in the rain
• kiss in the snow
• kiss on top of the Eiffel Tower (the one in Paris...the one in Vegas doesn't count)
• live in another country with a culture significantly different than the US (Italy, riot-free Greece, etc)
• attend A Capitol Fourth in Washington, DC
• see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
• go spelunking
• be an extra in a movie
• take a year off from whatever I am doing in the future and travel spontaneously...(this might coincide with the live in another country with a completely different culture item)
• overcome my fears
• help a complete stranger (Extreme Makeover Home Edition...I helped with a preschool in Nashville that was damaged by the floods. I not only helped the family that runs the school, but the kids, too. I can't describe that feeling. It's great.)
• fall in love with a guy who sweeps me off my feet and makes me weak at the knees
• run in a 10K (ambitious, I know...)