I'm doing 43 things
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Chase87's Life List
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1. Walk the "Caminito del Rey" deathpath
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2. have a good command of language
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3. Learn Japanese
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4. Learn Chinese
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5. get a motorcycle licence
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6. master the Jouyou kanji
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7. Ride the tour de France
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8. Build and ride a human slingshot
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9. Learn all alphabets
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10. Travel the Silk Road
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11. Travel from Beijing to Shanghai by bike
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12. Go on a roadtrip all through the U.S. in a van
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13. Run every day
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14. learn lojban
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15. exercise regularly
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16. gain weight
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17. Learn Morse code
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18. whistle with my fingers
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19. get my BSc in Computer Science
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20. Get a masters degree
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21. Develop games
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22. Always check if there's a book version before watching a movie
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23. write a novel
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24. become ambidextrous
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25. Learn drawing
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26. Learn to fly a plane
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27. Skydive with a wingsuit
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28. shoot a bow and arrow
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29. read more
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30. Write Shorthand
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31. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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32. become financially independent
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33. trainsurf
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34. learn to cook ..a bit
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35. find out what my blood type is
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36. tell a taxi driver to "follow that car!"
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37. Get a digital SLR camera
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38. learn photography
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39. destroy religion
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40. try surfing
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41. go to burning man
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42. understand economics
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43. have a lifework
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How I did it
It made me
indifferent 
How I did it: During military duty (meh, we still have this in Germany) I had a lot of spare time at my hands, and couldn't do any other tasks but office work and some occaisional browsing. So I decided to spend my time learning Dvorak in hope of it being of some use later on. So I mostly used the typing applet on hi-games.net/typing-test, nearly every day. I think it's much more important to train regulary than long, so about 30 minutes a day will be … Read how I did it…
Recent entries
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I’m aware this is an ad and mostly staged. It doesn’t change the fact that this is a great dream.
Although I didn’t stay as long as planned (1 year), I will count my 7 month stay as “move” to Japan.
I was living on the countryside (campus) and got to experience quite a bit of Japanese lifestyle, so it was more than just a holiday.
Japan is a wonderful country and very close to how I imagined it to be. If I ever get the chance to go there again, I will do so without hesitation.
