I'm doing 35 things
I gave a speech in front of hundreds of people this year and declared that 2010 was going to be the year that I visit Vietnam for the first time: http://www.pool.org.au/blog/pool_team/sharing_hope …and thankfully I’ve now booked tickets to go to HCMC in December for a week – so I am making good on my promise. Just in time to see the year out! I think I’ll just go to Vietnam as a tourist…and there’s a very good chance that my parents will make the trip back for the first time in February when they come visit me in Thailand. There are gonna be some big, emotional moments coming up in my life.
economyclass's Life List
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1. Speak at the Sydney Writers' Festival
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2. Sleep 8 hours a night
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3. Go on an eating tour of Italy
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4. See the aurora borealis
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5. Read One Hundred Years of Solitude
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6. Learn French
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7. Clean up my emails and delete all my old ones
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8. Speak slower
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9. Lose 5 kilos
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10. Work 4 days a week
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11. Learn how to play the Djembe
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12. Get involved with kiva
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13. Go to Morocco
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14. Read all the Tintin books
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15. Have fun
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16. Discuss books and music with Nick Hornby
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17. Learn to meditate
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18. Get rid of CDs that have no meaning to me
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19. Photograph more
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20. Finish my website
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21. Swim
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22. Write and publish a book
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23. Play the piano again
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24. Maintain a gratitude journal
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25. Improve my Vietnamese
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26. Jog regularly
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27. Go back to Japan
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28. Visit Prince Edward Island and pretend I'm Anne of Green Gables
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29. Read the complete Anne of Green Gables series beginning to end
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30. Read Russell's "History of Western Philosophy"
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31. Slow down
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32. Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock's movies
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33. I want to go to Burma
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34. Blog at least once a week
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35. Volunteer at the Jaipur Literature Festival
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How I did it: Earlier this year I picked up a flyer advertising acting classes through Darlo Drama and it piqued my interest. I kept the flyer handy and about six months later decided that I should go for it even though it was tough trying to squeeze classes into my already over-crammed life.The aim of the 10 week course is to perform a monologue on the last night in front of family and friends. We did a lot of exercises throughout the first half of th… Read how I did it…
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How I did it: I've actually been to two Indian weddings this month but the main event was the one I flew to India for at the beginning of December - the guy getting married was a friend from school that I've known a long time. I have long wanted to go to an Indian wedding, especially after seeing 'Monsoon Wedding', and I knew that I would get the chance one day - as long as he and I stayed good friends! :-) Read how I did it…
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