I'm doing 43 things
I did this
10 months ago
Yup, did it. It was strange. It was a party. It was a protest. 32,000 registered runners, elbow to elbow through the streets of downtown Addis. But I think I’d like to do it again!!
metu's Life List
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1. hold a baby gorilla
6 people -
2. dance with my daughters and granddaughter on a beach in Thailand at dawn
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3. deepen my yoga practice
12 people -
4. Get Master degree in Eastern Religions
2 people -
5. Approach a beautiful stranger and kiss him
3 people -
6. make a home in Tuscany
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7. take a shipping container of children's books to Ethiopia
1 person -
8. improve my down-hill skiing
1 person -
9. kayak the inside passage in British Columbia
1 person -
10. pick lavender in Provence
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11. learn to speak Italian
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12. finish spinning the silk/alpaca blend & knit lace scarf
1 person -
13. have enough money to form my own charitable foundation
1 person -
14. build an eco-friendly house
113 people -
15. buy a condo/loft
1 person -
16. make an all-white garden
1 person -
17. cycle through Tuscany
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18. learn to speak Amharic
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19. smoke dope on a beach in Goa
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20. go on a bird watching voyage to Antarctica
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21. write my stories about Ethiopia for granddaughter
1 person -
22. finish my novel
860 people -
23. build my soap-making workshop
1 person -
24. camel trek in the Tengger Desert of Mongolia
1 person -
25. meet the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala
3 people -
26. canoe down the Zambezi
1 person -
27. drink Vodka at an ice hotel in Lapland
1 person -
28. walk the Camino de Santiago
165 people -
29. trek in the Himalayas
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30. climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
442 people -
31. trek southeast Ethiopia and Bale Mountains
1 person -
32. trek the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu
1 person -
33. skinny dipping in the blue waters of the Mediterranean in an isolated cove on a Greek island
1 person -
34. walk through the tree-tops in a jungle, bird-watching
1 person -
35. teach granddaughter to knit & crochet
1 person -
36. raise rare and heritage breed chickens
1 person -
37. buy a violin and re-learn to play it
1 person -
38. make a moss-garden
1 person -
39. visit my nephew and nieces in California
1 person -
40. do a month-long retreat in a Buddhist monastery
1 person -
41. own a horse
669 people -
42. be in Japan for the cherry-blossoms
1 person -
43. trek the African Rift Valley
1 person
Recent entries
progress
16 months ago
Okay, so I sort of mastered the “fidel”. Now on to learning some useful vocabulary (the restaurant is good, Abebe!!), and the structure of the language!
half-marathon
16 months ago
I’m moving forward, in training now for a half-marathon in the fall. That should leave me well prepared for the 10 km in November, even though I’m still worried about the mountains and the altitude!
