I'm doing 43 things
I did this
6 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. trek the African Rift Valley
1 person -
2. trek southeast Ethiopia and Bale Mountains
1 person -
3. climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
430 people -
4. trek in the Himalayas
10 people -
5. walk the Camino de Santiago
157 people -
6. drink Vodka at an ice hotel in Lapland
1 person -
7. canoe down the Zambezi
1 person -
8. meet the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala
3 people -
9. camel trek in the Tengger Desert of Mongolia
1 person -
10. trek the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu
1 person -
11. skinny dipping in the blue waters of the Mediterranean in an isolated cove on a Greek island
1 person -
12. walk through the tree-tops in a jungle, bird-watching
1 person -
13. be in Japan for the cherry-blossoms
1 person -
14. own a horse
641 people -
15. do a month-long retreat in a Buddhist monastery
1 person -
16. visit my nephew and nieces in California
1 person -
17. make a moss-garden
1 person -
18. buy a violin and re-learn to play it
1 person -
19. raise rare and heritage breed chickens
1 person -
20. teach granddaughter to knit & crochet
1 person -
21. build my soap-making workshop
1 person -
22. finish my novel
831 people -
23. write my stories about Ethiopia for granddaughter
1 person -
24. kayak the inside passage in British Columbia
1 person -
25. improve my down-hill skiing
1 person -
26. take a shipping container of children's books to Ethiopia
1 person -
27. make a home in Tuscany
1 cheer1 person -
28. Approach a beautiful stranger and kiss him
3 people -
29. Get Master degree in Eastern Religions
2 people -
30. deepen my yoga practice
11 people -
31. hold a baby gorilla
2 cheers6 people -
32. dance with my daughters and granddaughter on a beach in Thailand at dawn
1 cheer1 person -
33. pick lavender in Provence
1 cheer1 person -
34. learn to speak Italian
1 entry1,199 people -
35. finish spinning the silk/alpaca blend & knit lace scarf
1 person -
36. go on a bird watching voyage to Antarctica
1 cheer1 person -
37. smoke dope on a beach in Goa
2 entries1 person -
38. learn to speak Amharic
2 entries7 people -
39. cycle through Tuscany
1 cheer1 person -
40. make an all-white garden
1 person -
41. buy a condo/loft
1 person -
42. build an eco-friendly house
116 people -
43. have enough money to form my own charitable foundation
1 person
Recent entries
progress
12 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
12 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!
