Trains, planes, and automobiles!

For Christmas break this year I got the opportunity to go to California to see my Dad!! It seems like the prices for planes just keep going up and up now, so we decided that a train is the way to go! What's really great about this trip is that I am not all alone for the 58 hours we have to travel which is great! As it turns out my boyfriend is coming along for the trip with me! We have brought everything possible to keep us entertained during the really longs hours of traveling. Like movies, books, iPods and our phone to play games on. So far we have traveled 30 hours and we have about half the trip to California done! We went through North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington state and now Portland Oregon. As I am writing this we are sitting, waiting in the train station here in Portland we have about four hours on a stopover here so we went walking around to get a bit of a look of the city. I find this area we are in is rather empty outside, this must be the old part of town. We went walking around and I found most of the population on the streets were homeless people. The architecture of this station is really really cool, just like the one back home in Winnipeg. During my trip I will try and keep my blog updated with how my trip is going. So look forward to more posts coming soon!!!

New Bucket List

So I have decided that I am going to make a second bucket list. The reason I am making a second one is because my first one was more of a travel type kind of bucket list. This new one I am about to write out will be a more simple one, things that I believe will be easier for me at the moment to cross off the list!

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1. Ride a train
2. Learn to snowboard
3. Get a tattoo
4. Go Skydiving 
5. Ride a hot air balloon
6. See Les Mis on stage
7. Have at least one kid 
8. Drive a Camero 
9. Be in a protest for something I believe in                                            
10. Go mountain biking                                                                   
11. Go horse back riding along the beach                       
12. Make stained glass windows
13. Buy jewelry from Tiffany & Co 
14. Own a farmhouse/house in the country
15. Have a library that fills a whole room                                           
16. Build a Habitat for Humanity house                                                    
17. Eat Macaroons
18. Write a cookbook                                                             
19. Eat Gumbo
20. Eat fried green tomatoes
21. Shoot my own thanksgiving turkey
22. Get backstage at a concert
23. Plant a tree and name it after me
24. Learn how to meditate
25. Kiss passionately in the rain
26. Have a specialist read my aura and my Tarot cards
27. Jump in a pool fully clothed
28. Drive a big green tractor
29. Learn how to knit
30. Crash a party
31. Win a raffle or lottery over $1000
32. Leave my hand prints in wet cement
33. Stay up all night to watch the sunrise
34. Buy a Polaroid camera
35. Cliff jump
36. Graduate high school
37. Stand in two places at once
38. Make my own version of Crayon Art
39. Send a message in a bottle
40. Camp out in the back of a truck in the middle of nowhere
41. Go to a paint rave
42. Attach a lock to a love bridge
43. Rock bold lipstick
44. Bake everything in a cookbook
45. Pay for a strangers meal at a restaurant
46. Take a road trip to some random place last minute
47. Go skinny dipping
48. VOTE!
49. play hide and go seek at West Edmonton Mall
50. Change my name
51. Serve in a soup kitchen
52. Marry the man of my dreams 

What do you want to do before you die?

We have began to create our own bucket list lately. I believe with my bucket list it will take ages for me to figure out what should really be on it. But one thing I found is that my bucket list seems to consist  almost of all things that have to do with travel somewhere to do something... I think it will be really hard for me to actually complete my bucket list properly. I doubt I will ever make enough money to travel to all these amazing places and do these amazing things.  So I think my mission in the next few days will have to be coming up with maybe another bucket list.

The bucket list I wrote previously I think I'll rename to be my travel one!

 There are so many things that I have seen on people's bucket list that I have already done. For example

Gone to Italy and rode in a gondola in Venice!
I have been in a marathon, I completed one when I was in grade 5!
I have been on a helicopter ride!
I have drank cocnut milk!
Rode a mecanhical bull!
I have hepled to sponser a child!
I have road a horse through water!

and many more.. I can say I have been very lucky these past 17 almost 18 years. I have been given many many great oppourtunities in life already..... God only knows what the future holds for me!


AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT!!!!!

Bucket List

1. Ride a train
2. Go back to Europe
3. Learn to Snowboard
4. See the Ocean
5. Go on an African Safari
6. Learn to speak another language other than French
7. Get a tattoo
8. Ride the Eye of London
9. Go on a doubledecker bus
10. Go to New Orleans (Mardi Gras)
11. See a Broadway Show
12. Go to an All Blacks Game (Rugby <3)
13. Own a pair of Prada shoes
14. See the Golden Gate bridge
15. Go to Time Square
16. See the Olympic Games in person
17. Go to the Super Bowl
18. Go to New Zealand (See where The Lord of the Rings was shot)
19. Meet Chef Ramsay or a Chef from the Food Network
20. Be an audience member on one of Ellen's shows
21. Be an extra in a Hollywood movie
22. Skydive
23. Go in a Hot air balloon
24. Get married at the church my Oma and Opa got married at
25. See Les Mis on stage
26. Have at least one kid
27. Drive a Camero (maybe own it)
28. Stay in a five star hotel
29. Have a food fight (Maybe the La Tomatina)
30. Climb a mountain
31. Go to Carnival in Rio
32. Be in a protest for something I believe in
33. Go to a dance club in New York
34. Learn how to French braid
35. Learn how to Salsa Dance
36. Take a bike ride through wine country
37. Go mountain biking
38. Hunt in Scotland
39. Go horse back riding along the beach
40. Ski in the Alps
41. Go on a boat ride through the English Channel
42. Swim in all the Great Lakes
43. Learn to say "Hello" in 50 different languages
44. Go Canopy touring (between trees zip lining)
45. Go bungee jumping
46. Go on a dune buggy ride in the desert
47. Go Zorbing!
48. Ride the ten largest roller coaster (incredible hulk)
49. Experience weightlessness
50. Swim with Dolphins
51. Ride an Elephants
52. Visit the Grand Canon
53. Visit Niagra Falls
54. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
55. Stay in an ice hotel in Sweden
56. Go island hopping in the Caribbean
57. See the Statue of Liberty
58. See Mt. Rushmore
59. Go snorkeling in a shipwreck
60. Go to the Tower of Pesa
61. GO TO OKTOBERFEST!
62. Go to Carnival in Venice
63. Make stained glass windows
64. Sleep in a castle
65. Buy jewelry from Tiffany & Co
66. Own a farmhouse/house in the country
67. Have a skylight in my master bedroom
68. A library that fills a whole room
69. Build a Habitat for Humanity Home
70. Write a cookbook
71. See Cirque du Soleil show
72. Hold the Stanley Cup
73. Eat Gumbo
74. Eat fried green tomatoes
75. Hangi ( New Zealand's method of cooking using heated rocks in a pit)
76.  Eat an NYC Hot dog
77. Eat a Macaroon
78. Eat in an Undersea Restaurant
79. Shoot my own Thanksgiving turkey
80. Ice Skate at the Rockefeller Centre (during Christmas)
81. See fireworks over the Sydney Harbour
82. Have a specialist read my aura and read tarot cards
83. Go mud wrestling (no stupid wet t-shirt contest type of one)
84. Get backstage for a concert
85. Go to a Masquerade
86. Go Whale watching in Alaska
87. Plant a tree and name it after me
88. Learn to Meditate
89. Kiss passionately in the rain
90. Have a costume party
91. Tour Hover Dame
92. Jump in a pool fully clothed
93. Drive a big green tractor :P
94. Go to the Grey Cup
95. Learn to Knit
96. Crash a party
97. Go to a movie premier
98. Win the lottery or raffle over $1000
99. Take my family to Disney Land
100. Marry the man of my dreams <3

Taylor Swift

Today presale tickets for Taylor Swift go on sale, fingers crossed that we get the tickets. I am really excited for the month she come to Winnipeg now. Her concert, MY GRAD, and a wedding it's going to be a really busy yet fun month!!

Reading and Writing Reflection

Writing perspective: Writing twitter fiction these past few weeks has gone well. For most of the tweets I actually didn't find it too hard to get into 140 characters. Only about one or two of them I actually had to sit there on twitter and thing really hard what I wanted to put in it. What I learnt about myself as writer during this is that I definitely don't like have a limit to how big my story is. I like to be able to establish the story and characters a lot more. When publishing my work on twitter it was a little weird to think how huge the audience might actually be. When posting on blogger my audience isn't that big it's mostly the class and some of my family reading it, but this was a whole different story.


Reading perspective: The twitter fiction that I read was Alina Simones. Here story was about about break ups, the title of all of them was called Antaomy of a Break Up. I chose to read this because her stories where easy to follow, you didn't have to always read the one before to understand what was going on. It was weird to be able to just sit on twitter for almost a whole hour so browsing around and just read every ones twitter. I was surprised at how deep and rather dark some people went while writing their twitter fiction, but it made for some really good tweets.


About twitter: This assignment didn't really change my perspective of twitter, I honestly still don't really like it at all. It not something I will continue with after.