I'm doing 34 things
...for study abroad next year.
ElizabethBA's Life List
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1. love
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2. be more forward
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3. be a vegetarian
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4. learn how to cook good vegan food
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5. learn Gallego
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6. Walk the Camino de Santiago
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7. be fluent in Spanish
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8. Learn Polish
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9. buy a lomo camera and take more pictures
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10. go out for the cross country team
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11. run a 5k
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12. go to oxford university
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13. knit a Dr. Who scarf
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14. Read "Don Quijote de La Mancha"
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15. embrace my consumptively pale skin and consumptively flushed cheeks
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16. go skinny dipping
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17. learn chinese
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18. listen to more jazz
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19. become a linguist
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20. Learn Perl
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21. do research
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22. avoid perfectionism
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23. dance with someone in the rain
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24. play all 15 Shostakovich string quartets
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25. attend greek orthodox services
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26. do something spontaneous
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27. go hiking
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28. have clear skin
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29. Allow A Bohemian Lifestyle to Flourish (without apologies)
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30. live passionately
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31. raise bees
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32. start a bluegrass band
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33. memorize a lorca poem each week
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34. attend SOAS
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Recent entries
Actually I’m researching plant communication. How things change! I am all the way done with the lab component (I had to stop at some point since I am attending classes and should probably do work for them, too, once in a while) and have begun some preliminary analysis. Fun.
I should update more often!
So I went through Middlebury just fine, although I don’t know if I will be recommending the first year Chinese experience to anyone else anytime soon. But still! I have kept studying Chinese and! as of yesterday, learned that I have received a grant to study a topic of my choosing in Beijing this coming summer – my hope is to use what Chinese skills I have to learn about perceptions of loan words. Very excited. So Beijing, wo lai le!
