Bucket

A bucket list (for those of you who don’t know) is a list of things you want to do/experience before you die. The term is derived from  the phrase “kicking the bucket”, meaning to die, which made me wonder why on Earth I would kick a bucket while dying (I can think of better things to do, like come up with the best last words ever).
After seeing some lists of others, I decided to make my own and while I was working on it I realised it is quite a hefty list! I also realised that even if I don’t get around to doing anything on this list I will still be able to have some pretty cool last words and will die a happy person!

Countries and what to do there:
(bold printed countries is where I want to live for at least a year and would make a great home-base from which to travel to the non-bold printed countries)

• China, Shanghai (as good a place to start as any, but better! Currently living there)
  Dragon boat racing
  Learn Chinese painting (working on that now)
  Learn to paint Chinese calligraphy (working on that now)
  Visit the great wall (I know I’ve been here for seven months already, but I haven’t been to Beijing yet….)
  See the Terra Cotta Army
  Tibet (I want to spin a prayer wheel!)
  Vietnam (I want to see the country I wrote my highschool exam paper on)
• Japan (I want to eat sushi, all day every day!)
  Learn Japanese (conversational level)
  Mongolia (because Paul and Nadine went to ride through the country on horseback and I’m jealous)
• Italy (I’ve already been there, but I want to live there)
  Learn Italian (conversational level)
  Scotland (Kilts!)
• Germany, Berlin
  Learn German (conversational level)
• America (New York) (for the art, Guggenheim Museum, doesn’t everyone go to New York to become someone? Let’s become someone!)
  Some American nowhere place (so we can cruise around on our motorbikes, for which we’ll have to learn how to ride them)
  Mardi Gras, New Orleans
  Paticipate in Burning Man, Nevada
  Greenland or Lapland (just sounds really cool)
  Mexico (I want to see where Frida Kahlo lived)
  Day of the dead
  Visit Chichen Itza

Cool things to see:

• The fjords of Norway
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• Petra, Jordan
• Taj Mahal, India
• Northern Lights

Other random stuff:

• learn how to drive and then paint my first car
• learn how to drive a motorcycle (working on that now… scared shitlesssss!)
• Do the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostella
• Get my master in Art
• Finally start exhibiting my work ( and make some money with it)