Design my Dream Life: To Do Before I Die

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This list has been something that I kind of always had in my mind, but finally decided to write up. I plan to continue to return to this list and update it as my life progresses. Hopefully, I'll be able to blog about most (if not all) of these things, so I can link back to everything!


Travel
  • Visit all 7 continents (6/7, track my travel progress here)
  • Backpack in Europe
  • Visit every country in the European Union (4/28)
  • See the New 7 Wonders of the World
    • Pyramids of Giza (honorary)
    • Colosseum
    • Great Wall of China
    • Taj Mahal
    • Machu Picchu
    • Chichen Itza
    • Petra
    • Christ the Redeemer
  • Visit Greece and fangirl over all the mythology-related things
  • See the windmills in the Netherlands
  • Eat chocolate in Belgium
  • Pay for an overseas vacation on my own
  • Visit Tibet
  • Go see the Harry Potter stuff in England
  • See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • Visit the Amazon
  • Go see the Hokkaido lavender fields
  • See the cherry blossoms in Japan
  • Visit Korea and eat yummy food
  • Eat yummy food in Japan
  • Try street food in every country I visit (purple markers are places where I have eaten street food: track my progress here)
  • Get paid to travel
  • road trip across the US
  • Explore Pompeii
  • Live in another country (aka not the US, Canada, or China) for a few months
Creative
  • Go out sketching at least once every two months
  • Paint a painting every year
  • Create a travel journal (Made one on Ecuador!)
  • Send 20 hand-painted cards 
  • Learn to throw on a pottery wheel
  • Learn to play a song on an instrument even though I'm musically challenged
  • Crochet a pixel blanket
  • Sell a painting
  • Open an Etsy shop
  • Make a Youtube channel
  • Write and illustrate a children's book 
  • Design and code an app
  • Redesign this blog and make it responsive
  • Get my artwork published or in a gallery
  • Create my own t-shirt design
  • Learn calligraphy
Be a Good Person
  • Do a Pay-It-Forward at a coffee shop
  • Volunteer for a good cause
  • Volunteer at a pet shelter
  • Donate $1000+ for an important cause
  • Knit for charity
Learn New Things
  • Take a self-defense class
  • Learn to speak a new (fourth!) language
  • Learn to drive
  • Take a ballroom dancing class
  • Take a martial arts class
  • Graduate from MIT (without pulling any more all nighters please)
  • Take a bartending class
  • Learn to quilt (and then make one)
  • Take a cooking class
  • Take a baking class
Other
  • Dance in the rain with someone
  • Adopt a pet that can snuggle (aka not a fish)
  • Swim in an infinity pool
  • Read a book every month (and blog about it)
  • Get an elephant massage
  • Go to a concert
  • See a musical and pay for the ticket myself
  • Go ziplining
  • Get up to see the sunrise 
  • See the Northern Lights, bonus if I photograph and paint it!
  • Have a plant without killing it (I have now managed to kill both a cactus and a succulent)
  • Grow a food that I can eat
  • Enjoy a wine tasting
  • Fold 1000 cranes for grandma and bring it to her grave
  • Be an extra in a movie
  • Go to ComicCon
  • Go to BeautyCon
  • Meet someone famous
  • Eat a ridiculously expensive dessert (Like the 1000 dollar ice cream sundae in Vegas)
  • Go apple picking (I've never been!) read about my experience here
  • Build a blanket fort with someone I care about
  • Ride in a hot air balloon
  • Attend/be a part of a wedding of someone I care about
  • Teach someone a skill
  • Take my parents out for a nice dinner
  • Get a penpal
So what's on your long term to do list?

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