Well, I’ve sent in my application. Now we just wait, and hope that some nice people will decide to send me to Oxford!
Queen Queen Hairclip Avocado's Life List
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1. finally read harry potter in french
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2. Learn to trust the Lord in everything
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3. collect all the tintin books in french
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4. Learn Mandarin
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5. learn to play bass guitar
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6. join an orchestra
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7. become fluent in french
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8. Write a movie
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9. become self-supporting
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10. Win a Rhodes Scholarship
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11. adopt a child
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12. see the northern lights
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13. watch all of Tim Burton's films
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14. recite a Shakespeare soliloquy in front of lots of people who aren't expecting it (like in an airport terminal, or in a movie theatre line)
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15. find a pen pal
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16. Get an honours degree
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17. get a masters degree
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I look back at this goal and wince when I think of how my South African Sign Language lecturers would react if they knew I’d used “sign language” as if it were one language! Anyway, I did a year of SASL, which was enough for me to acquire the basics. I’d love to carry on with it one day.

