COMING HOME AND THE BUCKET LIST

So change of plans. I am coming home in less than 2 weeks! I'll be home on March 12th wednesday. I have gotten so much from new zealand and am soo glad I went. Its really been a life changing experience. I do regret that I havent gotten to see the country outside of nelson but that is okay. If i had to do it again I would have did a 3 week tour of NZ with a group travel company then settledown. I can always come back one day! My heart is just shouting to come home right now. It really just can't bear staying in nelson another hour! To be honest I feel like I am in a jail cell here. The only way I can travel is to stay here in nelson or move somehwere else and work for 5 weeks. I'd have to work 5 days a week, find a new job, a new place to live.... I'd do 2 good hikes in NZ but it's just not worth it to me right now. On this decision I'm going to listen to my heart which is saying...do some hikes here in nz then go home and start accomplishing the things on your bucket list! Its been wonderful here but if your just not feeling it then rather then be unhappy, leave.

Okay, so I saw this great comedy with morgan freeman and jack nicholson called the bucket list the other night. They both realize that they only have 6 months to live. While sitting next to eachotherin the hospital being miserable they decide the best way to go out is to live their last few months to the fullest. The movie is about them writing a bucket list and completing all the things they listed on it. It helped them find joy and meaning in their lives. Some of the things on their bucket list included sky diving, race car driving, witnessing something majestic, climbing the himilayas. The movie was funny and very inspiring so I decided to create my own bucket list. If you guys like you should see it or just write a few things that would be on your bucket list. Things you'd really like to accomplish during our short time here on earth. My bucket list (which I now carry around with me everywhere I go) includes:

-Hike the California coastal trek
-Climb half dome
- Do 3 beautiful hikes in California
-Live in Santa Barbara or San Diego
- Do a hike or work a cool summer job in Alaska
-Do 2 other beaituful hikes in the US (outside california)
-Volunteer as an english teacher/hosptial aid in Thailand
- Work at the oakland childrens hospital-
Fly fish in Alaska-
Learn how to play 3 songs that I love on the piano and write my own
- Take a surfing lesson
-Do an adventure trip in s america, for 1 month and then some volunteer work after that. also do this in India, Nepal, and Africa.
- Go to a week long buddhist retreat.
- Go to a gigantic music festival
- Learn how to do an American indian dance
-Write a standup comedy and perform it.
- Learn to cook 10 very yummy meals
- Download 16 new songs each month and put them on my mp3 player
-Make my own wall calender with pics for each month that I took and that make me happy.
-Vaolunteer with habitat for humanity-Serve food at grace cathedral in SF.
-Create my own class at Cal.
- Be a tourist in SFO for a day and get a guide to show me all the neighborhoods
- Learn how to make coffees and cocktails
- Live each day as if it was my last b/c that's all I am certain I have.
- Keep up to date with close and distant friends and family. Be a great friend to them
- Journal daily
-Have an oscar weekend where I watch all movies that one best picture and listen to all songs that won best song.
-Memorize 3 great myths and tell them to someone else.
- Attend 3 incredible festivals around the world.
- Do 2 great hikes in New Zealand- read 5 great books
- Find a great irish pub in Sf with live music
- Take a guided tour of each of the 7 wonders of the world

My friend from ireland had the great idea of putting things on the list that you've already done. So I included a few things that I can already check off my list to give me a boost forward. These aren't all of them, but most. If you guys get time I'd love to know what would be on your bucket list!!! My bucket list is 1 lined piece of paper front and back.