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So far I’ve only driven a stick-shift around parking lots… Hopefully with a little more practice I’ll be confident enough to try it out on a real street!

I’ve never screamed at the top of my lungs, anywhere. I’m generally not a loud person at all—but if I’m going to scream somewhere, I would want it to be the Grand Canyon. I think it would be so energizing to stand there, looking at that majestic view, and just let it all out. Hearing the echo would probably be pretty cool, too.

I like how this goal is sort of open-ended… You could mean that you want to learn to fly an airplane, helicopter, ultralight, etc…. or that you want to learn to fly in a more metaphysical sense, without the help of any machines. I’d be up for any of the above :)

Two years down, two more to go!

I saw a Barbara Walters special a while back about different religions’ concepts of Heaven, and I felt that her interview with the Dalai Lama was really interesting. I’ve been meaning to learn more about Buddhism ever since, and now it’s officially on my list :)

It looks so easy! And you get to keep the money you’ve won, even if you’re not the overall winner.

My friends and I went grocery shopping one day, then missed our bus to get home, so we pushed the shopping cart all the way back to our dorm! Lol it’s actually a very useful thing to have around—to move big objects, or just to ride up and down the halls in your dorm :)

It’s wonderful when you can connect with someone and have such an interesting conversation that you lose all track of time… especially when you know that you have things to do in the morning, but you don’t care. I guess it’s that refreshing sense of rebellion and carefree/joyful attitude that enhance the social aspect of this experience for me.

I’d like to see all 50 United States, and all 7 continents (I suppose some kind of a cruise would suffice for Antarctica). I think it is important to have a global perspective, and having personal experiences in other cultures certainly makes that easier.

So far, I’ve been to 12 states, as well as to Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, and Turkey. So that’s only two continents so far, if you count Turkey as part of Europe rather than Asia (I’m not really sure which is appropriate). Slowly but surely, I’m achieving this goal… =)