My Bucket List

I am determined to do or see these things before I die – or do something that comes as close as possible to what may be unrealistic. 😉

(Side note: I decided very early that I wanted to see the whole world once. So I don’t include countries that I want to visit in general, but only specific locations and activities to shorten the list a little.)

• Learn to fly like Peter Pan – close: Tandem Hang Gliding (in Australia)
• Do another Tandem Hang Gliding Flight in Rio de Janeiro
• See the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
• Learn to speak at least a third language fluently
• See the Statue of Libery, New York
• Interview with Barack Obama (I admit I am fascinated. If this happens I’ll probably die of a heart attack.)

• Eat a real curry and see the Taj Mahal in India
• Improve the world (I will never tick this off, because you should never stop trying to be a better person)
• See Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia
  
• See the Maya pyramids in Mexico
• Donate blood
• Stand in front row at a big concert
• Drive a car on the left side of the road
• Drink a Guiness in a pub in Ireland
• See the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia
• Work as a news correspondent in a foreign country
• Jump into the crystal blue Caribbean Sea
• Order tapas in a bar in Spain (Andalusia)
  
• Stand on a volcano (Pico del Teide, Tenerife)
• Drink a cocktail at an exotic white beach
• Work for the New York Times (yeah, I keep on dreaming…)
• Have my own horse
• Plant a tree (it’s an apple-tree in my garden)
• Learn how to sail a ship
• Have my own blog
• Scuba Dive at the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
• Sleep under the stars – in the outback, Australia
• Get a diver certification
• Walk on the Big Wall of China
• Eat a fried insect
• Learn to love somebody deeply
• Stand on a stage, acting
• Be part of a musical – school theatre…ok, maybe it was horrible singing but fun!
• Eat a coconut fresh from the tree (Nigeria)
• Explore a rainforest
• Party in Las Vegas – although it wasn’t half as good as I expected
• See the Grand Canyon, US
  
• Do a Safari trip in Africa
• Ride on a camel through a sand desert
• Shoot a documentary film
• See the Egyptian Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Valley of the Kings
• Go on a big music festival – Hurricane Festival, Germany
  
• Get a professional makeup
• Read Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Kiss somebody at the Eiffel Tower, Paris
• See the locations of “The Da Vinci Code” in Rome, Italy
  
• Read the Bible
• Read the Koran
• Work as a cowgirl on a farm in the middle of nowhere
• Be a good journalist (mh, ok, maybe this need further definition. I guess to me that is when I feel I do something useful and can be proud of my work)
• Touch an elephant
• Have a romantic wedding
• Make a wish when seeing a shooting star
  
• Drive with a camper van through Canada
• See polar light
• See the Arctic
• Learn professional photography
• Go surfing – done in Australia and California, but I would like to learn it properly

To be continued!