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The Bucket List

This is my Bucket List. The list of things I would like to have accomplished by the time I kick the bucket.

As I do the things on the list I’ll mark them as done and give some details where appropriate. I’ll also be adding things on if I think of something good. Anyway on with the show.

  1. Swim the English Channel
  2. Cycle through Africa
  3. Get into tip top shape
  4. Speak French Fluently
  5. Speak an oriental Language Fluently
  6. Speak a Semitic/Aramaic language Fluently
  7. Write a book
  8. Start and maintain a photo journal for 25 years
  9. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia
  10. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill
  11. Drive across America from coast to coast
  12. Go Skydiving
  13. Visit the Great Wall of China
  14. Visit Manchu Picchu in Peru
  15. Spend a month at a Tibetan monastery learning about Buddhism
  16. Go to Vegas
  17. Learn to dance
  18. Go to China
  19. Go White Water rafting
  20. Run a Marathon
  21. Complete a triathlon
  22. Successfully live off the land
  23. Read the Quran in the original Arabic
  24. Ride in a hot air balloon
  25. Bungee Jump
  26. Learn a programming LanguageThough you could debate whether I actually know it. I’ll say java here. I have the basic concepts. I can programme relatively complex programs and I have the tools to teach myself new concepts that I may need. January 09
  27. Scuba Dive
  28. Have an aritcle published in a reputable magazine/journal/website
  29. Grow my hair down to my waist
  30. Grow a proper bushy/neck beard
  31. Teach someone illiterate to read
  32. Experience weightlessness
  33. Ask someone I’ve only just met to go on a dateDone sometime in the first month of College – September 2008 -. To be honost its easier than you’d think.
  34. Raft through the Grand Canyon
  35. Design and programme a video game
  36. Streak in a public place
  37. Skinny Dip
  38. Be completely silent for 7 days
  39. Get laser eye surgery
  40. Make a feast for my closest friends from scratch with ingredients I made/grew myself.
  41. Go Skiing
  42. Break a bone
  43. Be truly open, without reservations, with one person - October 2008.
  44. Get a masters
  45. Get a PHD
  46. Give Bone Marrow
  47. Teach
  48. Save some one’s life
  49. Set foot on each of the seven continents
  50. Climb Mt Kilimanjaro
  51. Climb another one of the world’s Seven Summits
  52. Spend one year volunteering
  53. Go to Burning Man
  54. Travel to Germany to experience Love Parade
  55. Build my own PC
  56. Learn how all the components in a PC work
  57. Experience Hajj
  58. Experience a traditional Jewish passoverI was a bit late but I still count as being there 2010
  59. Graduate in the top 5 in my class for my degree
  60. Finish my degree with a GPA of 4.0 or above
  61. Go to TED