I Better Get Started Now

I have seen so many people blogging this week about their childhood. Then again, this paper due tomorrow has me thinking about my future, and age. It’s crazy for me to think about only having 19 years left in life. Truth is though; it could only be ten, 1, maybe even one day, or hour. Life really is about living each moment, conversation, and relationship as if it’s our last. I don’t know if Ms. Serensky really wanted to pick apart our brains with this paper, but I have. I have struggled with keeping my paper real, while making it unique. If I simply say I want to travel the world…I will have the same paper as at least 5 other people. There are so many things I want to do, fitting it onto one paper, is like fitting all of those things into nineteen years, impossible! I have always been big on lists, to-do lists, not to-do lists, already accomplished lists. So this list is my sort of bucket list. There are so many things I want to do with my life, so many people to inspire, and help, and love!!So since I am assuming we won’t read each other’s papers, here is the ever growing list of things I WILL do before I die: (My actual Bucket list, is about 327 ideas long at this point, but below are some of the most important/exciting)

· Go to every country in Africa, even if for a day

· Help build the second school building at the “Every Orphan’s Hope” orphanage in Zambia

· Travel out of the country once every year after graduating from college

· Build an orphanage and school in Zambia…apart from the EOH in Lusaka

· Work an internship with TOM’s Shoes

· Do Peace Corps for a full term

· Travel to Peru, India, Italy, Poland, Rome, Paris, London, and China

· Go to Syracuse

· Get hired officially by National Geographic as a photographer

· Open my own Photography studio in New York City

· Meet Adele and Sia in person

· Have a sit down conversation with Meryl Streep or Kristen Wiig

· Go to SNL live

· Get married in Disney world-with a white horse drawn carriage

· Try on at least 100 wedding dresses

· Do an underground Disney internship

· Work at Disney work as a face character

· Go to Disney world on vacation every year with my family once I have kids

· Have at least three kids with the names: Stella, Briliegh, Brielle, Tarpley, Nella, Cole, Parker, Josiah, Lacy, Tenley, Lena, or Ila

· Adopt two kids from the orphanage I worked at in Lusaka, Zambia

· See all seven world wonders

· Speak a fluent second language

· Get certified in scuba Diving

· Be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

· Publish a Children’s book

· Sleep in Cinderella’s Castle

· Honeymoon at The Homestead in Virginia, or at The Grand Weilea in Maui Hawaii

A little unrelated....but this is what I will be like in my 80's/90's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQuI4G7ZZfw&feature=fvst