Sunday, May 01, 2011

The Bucket List

In the next three months I have to:


  1. Do pre-work karaoke with at least 2 other ALTs
  2. Have a girls weekend in Fukuoka – shopping and clubbing.
  3. Talk the Hagi ALTs into a water gun / balloon fight at Shizuki Park
  4. HAVE the water gun fight at Shizuki Park.
  5. Go to Tokyo Disney Sea.
  6. See The Naked and Famous live.
  7. Completely fill my purikura (miniphotos) book.
  8. Finish the management course I am taking.
  9. Swim across the Hagi bay.
  10. Beat every one of my students at ‘rock, paper, scissors’
  11. Volunteer for something. Anything.
  12. Jaywalk in front of a police officer
  13. Sneak a McDonalds McMuffin into the office.
  14. Eat only potatoes for every meal for 3 days.
  15. Teach my students some New Zealand slang – nah, bro, etc
  16. Eat raw chicken
  17. Eat whale.
  18. Eat more sushi.
  19. Cook a fully Japanese meal all by myself.
  20. Introduce friends to Flight of the Conchords.
  21. Roast a chicken.
  22. ROAD TRIP!
  23. Have a conversation with a complete stranger entirely in Japanese without them thinking I am American.
  24. Find and photograph a monkey.
  25. Go bowling.
  26. Go one week without falling over / crashing my bike / bumping into someone or something / destroying my knee (this one is going to be difficult)
  27. Go out drinking and return home at a reasonable hour and without a hangover in the morning.
  28. Go one day without speaking any English.
  29. Go one day without speaking any Japanese.
  30. Walk to the top of the local volcano.
  31. Eat at 5 restaurants I have never been to within Hagi.
  32. Go to an onsen (hot spring) one last time.
  33. Get a henna tattoo.
  34. Watch a sunrise when I am sober.
  35. Watch a sunrise when I am not sober.
  36. Convince friends to visit New Zealand within the next 5 years.
  37. Remember to photograph and record the above for posterity.

Can anyone think of any others?

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