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Things to do before I die. April 3, 1998 To the left and right are the original copies (back) (front) of my list as I wrote them on April 3, 1998. |
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1. 2. Go scuba diving at a sunken ship 3. Read complete works of JRR Tolkien ( List)4. Read twenty Shakespearean plays 5. Visit every country in the world 6. Spend a night in an igloo 7. Swim 12 laps in under 12 minutes 8. 9. 10. Start a mission school in Africa 11. Ride the train around India 12. Motorbike around Australia 13. Climb Ayers Rock 14. 15. Get a Masters Degree 16. Publish an article in an academic journal 17. Learn to speak German 18. Finish learning French 19. Play all of Bach’s Lute suites on the guitar 20. Be able to play all the band instruments (especially the oboe, flute, bassoon and French Horn) 21. Run a marathon 22. Listen to all of Sibelius’s Symphonies live 23. Conduct an orchestra 24. Play in a Christian alternative band and tour 25. Record a CD at least 40 minutes long 26. Get married and have children 27. Get my carpenter’s license 28. Run for political office and win 29. Star in a film 30. Perform in a major play 31. Get my ARCT in guitar 32. Build a guitar from scratch 33. 34. 35. 36. Grow a tropical garden 37. Grow a Canada garden 38. Paint a picture of my wife 39. Paint a picture of each of my kids 40. Paint a picture of each of my immediate family members 41. Join Promise Keepers ( link)42. Live to see the year 2050 43. Produce, direct, write, or act in a film about the Acadian Deportation 44. Write my autobiography 45. Read the complete works of CS Lewis 46. Read the complete works of Roald Dahl ( List)47. Own and operate a cafe 48. Write 100 songs 49. Play trombone in an orchestra 50. 51. Visit all 10 provinces (sleep at least five nights in each one) 52. Visit all fifty states (sleep at least two nights in each one) 53. Go on a cruise 54. 55. Learn to cut people’s hair 56. Learn to play the bass guitar 57. Lead 100 people to the Lord 58. Learn to play the Accordion 59. Publish a novel 60. Speak with three Prime Ministers of Canada 61. 62. Write a computer program 63. |
64. 65. Learn to make ice-cream 66. Write a book of poems 67. Make a beautiful vase on the throwing wheel 68. Plant 500 trees to make up for the ones I have used up 69. Win an Oscar for a documentary 70. Have a letter to the editor published in a city newspaper 71. To help Salomé make a cartoon film for the National Film Board of Canada 72. Play Hockey on a team 73. Build a house 74. 75. Learn to do a cartwheel 76. Make a grandfather clock 77. Learn my times table up to 50 X 50 78. Invest in the Montreal Stock Market 79. 80. Take photographs and have them included in a National Geographic issue ( link)81. Climb to the summit of mountains in twenty countries 82. Go fishing at night in New Brunswick 83. 84. Go surfing 85. 86. Go ice fishing and catch a fish 87. Write the biography of someone I admire 88. Pray everyday of my life from now on (cross this one off when I die would you) 89. Go on world’s biggest roller coaster 90. See the Sistine Chapel 91. 92. 93. 94. Own goats and milk them for what they are worth 95. Sponsor a child for 10 years 96. Roll in the snow after sitting in the sauna 97. Arm wrestle with a WWF wrestler 98. Learn to read Arabic 99. Learn an African dialect 100. Ride a camel through the desert 101. Teach for at least 25 years 102. 103. 104. Go to
an NFL, 105. Adopt a child 106. 107. Be a juror (I know its random) 108. Learn Spanish 109. 110. Do my family tree back ten generations 111. Memorize the flags and capitals of all countries 112. Memorize the names of all of Canada’s Prime Ministers and all the US Presidents and leaders of France, Russia, Great Britain and China since 1900 113. Go hang gliding 114. 115. Get class 4 driver’s license 116. Keep a daily journal for five years 117. Start up a guitar ensemble 118. Have CUC include all of its titles and letter heads in French also 119. Learn to do macramé and knit 120. Go windsurfing 121.
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