100 blog posts and My Bucket List!!

To celebrate the fact that I have written 100 posts (in two months, shit I speak a lot), I will share my bucket list with you today! Don’t expect anything too wild like swimming with sharks or bungee jumping because this is not that kind of list. A few years ago, I think before I met Rui, I made a list of all the things I would like to do with my life, so this is more a list of all the things I want to do before I die!  I decided I should come up with 100 and I did. I still remember writing them on this notebook with a cupcake patterned cover, where they still are and where I’m copying them from right this second. I would write them down whenever I thought of something new, during a class, on the bus, at home, whenever I would come up with them. This should be interesting!

100 things I want to do before I die:

1. Learn how to ride a bike;
2. Write a book (or several books);
3. Read all of the books from my “books I want to read before I die list” and the thousands of eBooks I have saved up on my computer (through totally legal downloads…not);
4. Buy an old house to renovate or just build my dream house;
5. Having a garden and a vegetable garden with fruits and trees and vegetables and plants and herbs and flowers.
6. Go to the United Stated and travel the 50 states;
7. Learn how to sew, do more things in crochet and knitting;
8. Be a mother;
9. Feel comfortable in my own body and control my weight;
10. Have two dogs and one cat;
11. Finish my degree in Languages, Literature and Cultures, with a Major in North American Studies and a Minor in English;
12. Create a playlist of all my favorite songs;
13. Have a library full of books;
14. Try playing tennis, volleyball, basketball, running and Pilates;
15. Do a Master’s in American Studies or Education;
16. Buy a car;
17. Take a massage course;
18. Visit all of the most important places and monuments in the world, see all of the most important works of art;
19. See all of the best movies ever made;
20. Take more degrees, even if I’m not going to work in that field;
21. Do some courses and learn every thing there is to learn about English and Literature;
22. Learn mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and do exams, so I can take degrees that require these subjects;
23. Teach;
24. Learn German, French, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin;
25. Live in the countryside in a place full of trees and near the water;
26. Get cured from my depression;
27. Wake up at the same time every day and get used to going to bed early;
28. Be more sustainable and green (recycle, use more organic things, be more self-sufficient, make less garbage and have an electric car);
29. Have a career;
30. Have a shop or a cafe or a tutoring center or some other business;
31. Get used to writing a journal;
32. Buy better and more versatile and classic clothes that will last longer (more basics, etc);
33. Stop being afraid of swimming in deep water and learn to swim better;
34. Have healthy, long, beautiful nails and healthy hair;
35. Stop being lazy when it comes to taking care of myself;
36. Organize my finances and have a good savings account;
37. Be completely independent;
38. Be part of some groups like a book club or choir or collective sport;
39. Go to a dance class;
40. Forget about my past, get over all of the heartbreak and disappointment;
41. Create a better relationship with everyone in my life;
42. Organize my things until I feel like I’m 100% organized;
43. Be the best in class in the next degree in decide to take and be 100% dedicated;
44. Fill a notebook with all my favorite poems;
45. Buy a pink laptop;
46. Collect postcards and stones;
47. Exchange letter and postcards with people from other countries;
48. Learn more about Art, Cinema, History, Philosophy and Science;
49. Have friends all over the world;
50. Do a trip on my own;
51. Write articles for a newspaper or magazine;
52. Repeat all my exams from high school;
53. Prepare myself to be able to teach Portuguese as a second language and to tutor Portuguese students for exams;
54. Do some online courses;
55. Do a play;
56. Live alone;
57. Learn how to play the piano;
58. Be 100% healthy;
59. Fill a notebook with recipes;
60. Find my religion;
61. Do some DIY projects like jewelry or restore furniture;
62. Have a blog with 100 followers;
63. Have singing lessons;
64. Get married and stay married for 50 years;
65. Write down all my expenses and live on a budget;
66. Be in shape and like sports;
67. Do volunteer work (at a hospital, with the homeless, for a suicide line and with orphan babies);
68. Win an Award;
69. Do an album with all my pictures;
70. Adopt a child;
71. Learn how to do things from scratch (soap, bread, clothes, detergent, etc.)
72. Do a PhD;
73. Help as many people as I can;
74. Be great at something;
75. Create a big folder, full of English learning/teaching materials;
76. Get to know Lisbon better, like a tourist;
77. Be able to say no to candy;
78. Be informed about what is going on in the world;
79. Do some kind of course related to computers or technology;
80. Meet a famous writer;
81. Write a movie or TV show script;
82. Run a marathon;
83. Be someone’s godmother;
84. Take my driver’s licence and pass in the first try;
85. Stop being ashamed of getting my picture taken and be in more;
86. Write a Master’s thesis and PhD thesis;
87. See all of Shakespeare’s plays in the theater;
88. Learn how to meditate;
89. Have 15/20 students at the same time for my private classes and make a good salary from them;
90. Keep the friends I have and find more lifelong friends;

 

And that’s how far I got at the time. I started this list about three or four years ago and so many things have changed. Some of them don’t make sense to me anymore, some of them I have already accomplished and there are a few new goals. I will post an update and a current list but right now I’m just going to let you get to know 21-year-old me 🙂