51 things to do before I turn 20.

SO with jose turning twenty...i just have just under 365 days to complete each of this list. Why? Because there has to be more to life than work, worry and work for school.

Without further ado.....

1. Swim with a dolphin.
2. Skydive.
3. Have my portrait painted.
4. Learn to speak Japanese and make sure you use it.
5. Go skinny-dipping at midnight
   
6. Watch the launch of a space shuttle.
7. Be an extra in a film.
8. Kiss on a forest floor.
9. Make out on the restroom of a train
10. Learn how to take a compliment.
11. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
12. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
13. Take a good polaroid picture.
    
14. Send a message in a bottle.
15. Ride a camel.
16. Plant a tree.
17. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
18. Write a fan letter to Shakira.
19. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
20. Learn to ballroom dance properly.
21. Be the boss.
22. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.
23. Go drifting in a canoe.
24. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
25. Drink beer at Oktoberfest.
26. Be someone's mentor.
27. Shower in a waterfall.
28. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
29. Spend a night in a haunted house.
    
30. See a lunar eclipse.
31. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
32. Drive across America from coast to coast.
33. Sleep under the stars.
34. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
35. Forgive your parents.
36. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
37. Exchange snail mail with someone in Germany.
    
38. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
39. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
40. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
41. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
42. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
43. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
44. Attend one really huge rock concert.
45. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.
46. Give to a charity -- anonymously.
47. Create your own web site.
48. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
49. Ski a double-black diamond run.
50. Learn to bartend.
51. Run a marathon.

The ones crossed out, I have already done.....I have so many more in mind.

ideas? http://brass612.tripod.com/cgi-bin/things.html