Saturday, September 10, 2011

My bucket list, 100 things to do before I die



I have already done lots of things, some were on my list and some have sneaked onto it as I went along but I still have lots to do…

What I have already done:

  1. Learn how to ride a bike
  2. Live by myself
  3. Go overseas
  4. Be a part of Rock in Rio
  5. Spend New Year’s Eve in Copacabana
  6. Enjoy a summer in Milan
  7. Eat an real italian gelato
  8. Oktoberfest in Münichen
  9. Visit a concentration camp
  10. Be on the cover of a magazine
  11. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
  12. Visit Notre Dame
  13. Visit Le Louvre
  14. Take a picture at the Mona Lisa
  15. Go to Juliet’s House in Verona
  16. Build a snowman
  17. Walk up Lions Head
  18. Walk up Table Mountain
  19. Find love
  20. Ride a horse
  21. Go to a waterfall
  22. Go ice skating
  23. Ride an elephant
  24. Be in total darkness with no noise in the middle of the woods
  25. Go to the Cango Caves
  26. Spent a day at Tsitsikamma
  27. Learn (I mean try to learn…) how to surf
  28. Travel along the Garden Route
  29. Get my drivers license
  30. Go up the Sugar Loaf Mountain
  31. Do volunteer work
  32. Cook a turkey for Christmas
  33. Be a part of a World Cup
  34. Go to a Roxette concert
  35. Watch the Cirque du Solei
  36. Get my National Diploma
Still to do (not in any specific order):


  1. Get my Btech Degree
  2. Learn how to sing so I can go to a karaoke evening and not feel embarrassed
  3. Dye my hair a different colour
  4. Catch up on my “movies to see” list
  5. Shave my head bald
  6. Get a dog (my first one)
  7. Learn how to tap dance
  8. Go to Mozambique
  9. Be a part of a World Cup in Brazil
  10. Change somebody’s life (for the better)
  11. Spend a summer in Durban
  12. Travel the old fashioned way, by boat (but not too far though)
  13. Visit Berlin
  14. Go camping
  15. Learn to play a musical instrument
  16. Spend 2 weeks or more in New York
  17. Visit the Taj Mahal
  18. Visit Rome and of course the Colosseum
  19. Have a ferret
  20. Do the 20-day camping trip around Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe
  21. Walk on a piece of The Great Wall of China
  22. Get a tattoo
  23. Go to Machu Picchu
  24. Learn some form of martial art
  25. Overcome my fear of heights
  26. Visit the Pyramids of Giza
  27. Ride in a hot air balloon
  28. Safari in the Kruger
  29. Meet Ellen DeGeneres
  30. Ride a camel
  31. Scuba dive in Fernando de Noronha
  32. Visit Thailand
  33. Dance some kind of dance…properly
  34. Visit the Amazon rainforest
  35. Be part of the Rio Carnaval
  36. Go fishing
  37. Have my own garden
  38. Backpack in Europe for a few months
  39. Ride a gondola in Venice
  40. Learn more about photography
  41. Learn some basic Xhosa
  42. Learn to speak Spanish
  43. Go to Rocking the Daisies
  44. Visit the Klein Plasie open air museum
  45. Visit Dubai
  46. Be a maid of honour for somebody I really care about
  47. Complete the Two Oceans Half Marathon
  48. Do some sort of art course so that I have an excuse to go to an art supply shop and buy things
  49. Take part in a flash mob
  50. Watch a show on Broadway (the real Broadway)
  51. Hold a butterfly
  52. Canoe on a river
  53. Take a flying lesson
  54. Decorate my own house
  55. Experience a white Christmas
  56. Visit my uncle in Australia
  57. Hug a koala
  58. Get married
  59. See the Northern lights
  60. Learn a fourth language, not sure which one yet
  61. Have a holiday in Bora Bora
  62. Have children
  63. And grandchildren
  64. Always add to my bucket list

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