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Things to do before I die.

April 3, 1998

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST

To the left and right are the original copies (back) (front) of my list as I wrote them on April 3, 1998.

1. Read the Bible straight through (proof)

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. Swim 24 laps straight (proof)

9. Bike across Canada (proof)

10. Start a mission school in Africa

11. Ride the train around India

12. Motorbike around Australia

13. Climb Ayers Rock

14. Graduate from college with a BA and BEd (proof)

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. Canoe down the whole Mackenzie river (proof)

34. Shear Sheep (proof)

35. Take cooking classes (proof)

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. Go Skydiving (proof)

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. Get my life guarding certificate (proof)

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. Learn advanced calculus and analytic geometry (proof)

62. Write a computer program

63. Win twenty-five FreeCell games in a row (proof)

64. Create and upkeep a website (proof)

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. Learn to dive from a diving board (proof)

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. Join a peace organization (proof)

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. Go sailing (proof)

84. Go surfing

85. Go snow Boarding (proof)

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. Go skinny dipping with my wife (proof)

92. Grow a beard for one year (proof)

93. Shave everyday for one year (proof)

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. Memorize a book of the Bible (proof)

103. Sing an original song to my bride at my wedding (proof)

104. Go to an NFL, NHL, CFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and European Football game

105. Adopt a child

106. Work at a polling station (proof)

107. Be a juror (I know its random)

108. Learn Spanish

109. Baptize someone (proof)

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. Get First Aid Certification (proof)

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. Compose a song for band (or arrange) (proof)

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