I'm doing 17 things
Completed the Rescue Diver course in March, so next up is Divemaster! Hope to take a few months off next summer and plan to do my IDC as well.
Chris's Life List
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1. run with the bulls in Pamplona
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2. learn to fly a plane
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3. Laugh. A lot. Genuinely.
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4. live in New Zealand
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5. have no regrets
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6. take more pictures
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7. never, EVER grow up
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8. read herodotus
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9. See the Aztec ruins in Mexico
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10. Live life my own way
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11. be goofy every chance I get
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12. keep learning Russian
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13. Stay in touch with the people I care about
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14. learn more than the basics of Adobe Photoshop
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15. Read everything in my "to read" pile before I buy any more books from Amazon.
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16. enter, and complete, an expedition race
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17. Cage dive with Great Whites in South Africa
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Recent entries
I lived/worked in Russia for four and a half years, and learning to speak Russian made it a much more enjoyable experience. I think it would be incredibly hard to do if you don’t have it around you all the time, but it’s certainly not a requirement. By the time I left I could speak well enough that people didn’t immediately know that I was an American. I can’t say that I’m fluent, unfortunately, and after 3 years removed from speaking it daily I’ve gotten pretty rusty. Learning any foreign language is a constant effort, so you’re always progressing when it isn’t your native tongue. But when you start thinking in another language, that’s when you know you’re getting somewhere.
