The List (24/112)

1. Do a cartwheel.

2. Complete a first aid course. (26 July 2013)

3. Whistle with my fingers.

4. Write a book of some sort - fictional or non-fictional.

5. Watch a ballet.

6. Learn to like wine. (2016 edit: tried. It will never happen. Sauvignon Blanc is not so bad, but wine is never my first choice.)

7. Go wine-tasting.

8. Learn to play poker.

9. Stay in an ice hotel.

10. Witness a flash mob.

11. Go to an Ice Bar.

12. Visit Germany.

13. Take one photo every day for a year.

14. Learn how to/attempt to surf.

15. Go on a road-trip to the coasts of Africa.

16. Go to Ibiza.

17. Write a personal manifesto. (11 May 2012. Here it is.)

18. Sky dive in Cape Town.

19. Attend a Patrick Holford talk.

10. Go on a detox cleanse.

21. Experience proper falling, thick snow.

22. Read one book a month for a year. (January: The Light Between Two Oceans by M.L. Stedman. February: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. March: The Innocent Man by John Grisham. April: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. May: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. June: Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt. July: Stay Close by Harlan Coben AND Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.)

24. Study abroad.

25. Take a defensive driving course.

26. Become fluent in German.

27. Design and build my own house one day.

28. Own a restaurant/pub.

29. Dance on a bar.

30. Travel first-class on a plane overseas.

31. Finish the last Harry Potter book.

32. Run fancy-dress for charity.

33. Paint two of my walls one colour. (4 and 5 April 2012. Colour - Red. Here's the evidence.)

34. Party with Jenna Marbles.

35. Go shark-diving.

36. Organise a girls' weekend away.

37. Attend Oktoberfest in Germany.

38. Go white river rafting.

39. Gamble at the tables.

40. Do a bike marathon.

41. Sign up for a course at Stratejoy.

42. Spend a St. Patricks Day in Ireland.

43. Drive through a tollbooth and pay for the person behind me.

44. Sleep on a waterbed.

45. Practice yoga in an Eastern country - India/ Bali.

46. Send mass Christmas cards.

47. Visit San Fransisco.

48. Take a picture with a Buckingham Palace guard.

49. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef.

50. Bartender. (13 July 2012 @ The Manhattens Club)

51. Volunteer for a hypnotist show.

52. Attend a weekend music festival. (Rocking the Daisies 2013 + 2014)

53. Swim in the ocean in Cape Town.

54. Own a business of my own.

55. Throw a surprise party. (27 July 2012 - boyfriend's eighteenth)

56. Quad bike among dunes (desert or beach). (Laura's 18th birthday 2014)

57. Ride a motorbike on my own.

58. Go snowboarding.

59. Go skiing.

60. Watch the German National Football Team played a match on home soil.

61. Witness the Northern Lights.

62. Win at gambling.

63. Go on a meditation retreat.

64. Take a homeless person to a sit-down meal.

65. Go on an overnight-hike.

66. Camp on a beach/ near a beach.

67. Jump off a high cliff into the ocean.

68. Deep sea dive.

69. Deep sea dive to the Titanic ship wreck.

70. Do a pub-crawl in London in winter.

71. Drink milk straight from a coconut. (Thailand, 2015/2016. Okay, there was rum in it, too.)

72. Get naked on a nudist beach.

73. Skinny-dip. Yes, yes I am a teenager and have never done this one.

74. Throw a dart at a map and travel to where it lands.

75. Stay in an underwater hotel.

76. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the world.

77. Be someone's Maid of Honour.

78. Be a vegan for a month - minimum.

79. Get a tattoo.

80. Go on a Contiki tour.

81. Run/cycle a naked mile/race.

82. Host a cocktail party.

83. Take pole dancing lessons just for fun.

84. Go on a house boat in Kariba with a group of friends.

85. Drink flavoured beer.

86. Build a snowman.

87. Send flowers for no reason at all.

88. Visit the Vodacom Beer World in Johannesburg center. (17 November 2012)

89. Solve a Rubik Cube.

90. Drive along the ocean in a convertible with the roof down.

91. Float in the Dead Sea.

92. Watch a play on Broadway.

93. Say yes to everything for one day.

94. Visit every continent. (Africa; Asia; Europe; Australia; North America; South America; Antarctica)

95. Hire a Boris Bike in London.

96. Go on a cycle tour around Soweto.

97. Jump off a high-dive.

98. Bungee Jump off the Orlando Towers in Soweto.

99. Ride an elephant. (2016 edit: this is crossed off not because I have done it because I won't. How cruel was I to write this down as a bucket list item? Animals are not objects to be ridden for fun and games. They are creatures with souls, too.)

100. Ride a camel. (2016 edit: this is crossed off not because I have done it because I won't. How cruel was I to write this down as a bucket list item? Animals are not objects to be ridden for fun and games. They are creatures with souls, too.)

101. Ride an ostrich. (2016 edit: this is crossed off not because I have done it because I won't. How cruel was I to write this down as a bucket list item? Animals are not objects to be ridden for fun and games. They are creatures with souls, too.)

102. Run a 5K marathon. (12 May 2013 - Jive Slave Route Challenge.)

103. Run a 10K marathon.

104. Run a half-marathon. (1 May 2013 - Safari Half-Marathon. Wellington, Western Cape)

105. Run a full-marathon. (2016 edit: I no longer have a desire to run a full marathon. I love completing half marathons and I am super proud of myself for doing them, and that's it. I have no desire to do more. Yay for honesty.)

106. Try Bikram Yoga. (17 April 2013 - @ Yo Yoga)

107. Ride a horse on a beach.

108. Go to Afrikaburn.

109. Organise a huge donation for the SPCA.

110. Stomp grapes on a wine farm.

111. Watch a sex show in Amsterdam.

112. Go paddle-boarding.

113. Go crocodile-cage diving.

114. Go to a shooting-range.

115. Own a monkey.

116. Do a proper body shot.

117. Have someone take a proper body shot off of me.