Alchera #35: Cosas que hacer



Somewhere out there in cyberspace is a guy with a lot of ideas. Using him as an example, make a list of things you'd like to accomplish in your lifetime. These can be very simple and very complex. For example, if you hope to go a year without getting a common cold, why not put that on your list? And if you would like to invent a money tree, throw that on there, too. Try for 50 or more, but that's merely a suggestion, not a requirement.

So here they are, things I wish I could do before I die, some of which I know will never ever happen.
  1. Visit Japan
  2. Live in Japan (not necessarily for the rest of my life)
  3. Go back to Dubuque, just to visit
  4. Learn Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Modern Greek
  5. Become fluent in Japanese, French, and Portuguese
  6. Drive a New Beetle
  7. Drive a car again
  8. Eat Peruvian food
  9. Visit Peru
  10. Read lots of Chinese literature
  11. Lend my voice to one of those audio files which come in the Encarta Encyclopedia (preferrably the one reading Sonnet XLIII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  12. Sing in a choir again
  13. Become a famous singer
  14. ... or a famous writer
  15. Become a language and/or literature teacher
  16. Travel around the world and try all sorts of food
  17. Visit Saipan Island (whatever led me to it, I don't know, but now I dream of its image of a lost paradise with charred remains of hell)
  18. See Minori again
  19. See Kotaro again
  20. See Katherine Thornton again
  21. Meet Takami Ei (aka Noppo San)
  22. Learn to ride a bicycle
  23. Learn to skate
  24. Re-read many of the books I've read
  25. Learn to play piano
  26. Make a ragdoll
  27. Make my own dresses
  28. Visit San Francisco again
  29. Live in San Francisco for a while
  30. Roadtrip around the States (if I could get to see every State in the Union, that would be incredible)
  31. Visit Chile
  32. Sing Billy Joel's Honesty in front of a big audience, or in a karaoke bar, who cares
  33. Go to a Billy Joel concert
  34. Write new songs
  35. Write more stories
  36. ... and get them published
  37. Make my own marmalade
  38. Become a tidy person
  39. Stop procrastinating
  40. Visit Himura's bakery
  41. Go to more weddings and dance like hell
  42. Learn to dance good old fashioned rock 'n roll
  43. Keep a healthy weight
  44. Go to a night club (go ahead, call me pathetic)
  45. Keep in touch with all my friends from here and abroad
  46. Learn to knit
  47. Get married (it's okay if I don't, but I really believe marriage is a beautiful yet tough thing)
  48. Wear my hair in a very sixties coiffure, like Barbara Eden in I Dream of Jeannie
  49. Get a much more flexible body (gotta work hard for that, but oh well)
  50. Teach many languages to my children
  51. Visit Saskatchewan and Ushuaia
  52. Meet Bill Murray
  53. Visit Strawberry Field, Penny Lane, and other Beatles related sites (so far I've only been to Haight Ashbury)
  54. Visit Liverpool
  55. Learn to play the sitar
The list may grow.