I love having new experiences, and I don't think there is a better way for me to spend my senior year of high school than trying to accumulate them. I like challenges that can be quantified, so this is perfect for me. I'm going to record and post about each item that I complete. Some are big, some are small, but they are all things I want to experience. So you guys are keeping me accountable!
I've always wanted to do a big challenge like this. I'm very proud to say that I am starting! It works out to about two challenges per week, so I can do it in small pieces.
Here is the list of one hundred and one new things that I am going to do (the challenges that I complete will be linked):
- Come up with a list of 101 new experiences to have
- Take a tennis lesson
- Make and decorate cake pops
- Go to Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
- Take a group fitness class (that isn't yoga!)
- Watch the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Have a tea party
- Go to a new city
- Paint a self portrait
- Run in a race
- See Chicago live
- Celebrate my three-quarter birthday!
- Work at the restaurant for thirty six consecutive business hours
- Take my parents out to dinner
- Read a book by Hemingway (I know, it's shameful that I haven't done this yet!)
- Give up the internet for forty eight hours
- Travel somewhere alone
- Read from dawn to dusk by natural light
- Celebrate Cinco de Mayo
- Enjoy a live jazz concert
- Learn twenty unusual and fun vocabulary words
- Watch all seven James Bond films with Sean Connery
- Make a new friend
- Organize my LP collection and clean my records
- Ride in a limousine
- Build an epic sandcastle
- Work in a retail clothing store
- Try cole slaw
- Make a playlist and give it to someone as a gift
- Go to a thrift shop that I haven't been to before
- Read every article in a Sunday edition of the New York Times
- Eat a slice of pizza backwards
- Try to make fried oreos
- Memorize a Shakespearean sonnet and recite it to someone
- Participate in a Quidditch match
- Use a real photobooth (must have awesome printed strips!)
- Go to (or invent) an event that requires a fancy dress and rent a dress that's way out of my budget to buy(!)
- Cook a meal with tofu in it
- Buy a lottery ticket (bonus points for winning)
- Take photos in an indoor studio
- Donate blood
- Get in my swimsuit and run through a sprinkler
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Make a time capsule
- Learn to play chess
- Take a real photography class
- Have a picnic
- Watch a silent movie
- Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day
- Learn to make potato salad
- Dye my hair
- Fill up an entire sketchbook with drawings
- Write a letter to a celebrity
- Learn how to say hello, goodbye, please and thank you in ten languages
- Get a henna tattoo
- See a roller derby match
- Send a message in a bottle
- Pay for someone else's order behind me in line
- Actually watch the DVD commentary for a movie
- Post one hundred posts on this blog!
- Buy something from Etsy
- Go for six months without buying new clothes
- Find out my blood type
- Photograph and display twenty things that make me happy
- Commit to a university
- Visit a New York tourist trap
- Design my own calling cards
- Go to a music festival
- Sell something on ebay
- Send out cards for Arbor Day
- Make a pinhole camera
- Save all my change for six months and use it for something special
- Send a letter with no words, only photos
- Make (and give) a friendship bracelet
- Take a photo of myself everyday for a month
- Vote in an election
- Try flavored rice pudding
- Place a bet on a horse race (winning is optional, but preferred)
- Send a care package
- Use an instant film camera
- Make a zine
- Go to New York Fashion Week
- Make an entire outfit from recycled material
- Spend a day working on my roller skating skills
- Read a book about particle physics
- Climb a tree
- Go to a drive in movie theater
- Use only chopsticks for an entire day (I might go hungry!)
- Recreate a famous photograph
- Start a collection of small objects
- Decorate my bicycle and make it awesome
- Learn to say the alphabet backwards
- Order something spicy at an Indian restaurant
- Write a love letter everyday for a month
- Put on fake eyelashes properly
- Do a DIY I see on Pinterest
- Write a proper book review
- Have an occasion to wear a wig
- Be photographed by a street style photographer
- Write a personal mission statement
- Create one hundred and one goals for next year!
