2012 Summer List

1. Learn more German, Italian, or Spanish
2. Try new styles
3. Teach myself cursive
4. Play more ukelele
5. Learn how to cook
6. Learn sign-language
7. Finish the Harry Potter books
8. Have a Harry Potter movie marathon
9. Have a Disney movie marathon
10. Have a day devoted to relaxing
11. Choose a country, learn about its language, customs, cuisine, art, history, etc
12. Have a water fight
13. Pull an all-nighter
14. Learn how to say hello in 50 different languages
15. Learn how to use chopsticks
16. Go to the Bloedel Reserve
17. Use sign language for an entire day
18. Run into a grocery store and ask “What year is it?!” when they respond, yell “YES! IT WORKED!”
19. Compliment everyone you see for a day
20. Pretend to be a guy for the day
21. Color the whole sidewalk with chalk
22. Put vanilla pudding into a mayo jar and eat in public
23. Master an accent, then...
24. Spend a whole day faking the accent. See if you can fool people.
25. Make a scrap-book
26. Take at least one picture per day to put in the scrap-book. Also take a picture of everything on the list (well, the things that you can take pics of) .
27. Go without electronics for a whole day
28. Wear clothes backwards for the day. Walk around in public and see if anyone notices.
29. Play the ukelele downtown or on the ferry
30. Write complements and inspirational quotes on sticky-notes and leave them in public bathrooms on the mirror.
31. Go to the zoo, skip everywhere you go
32. Get into a new tv show, watch at least the whole first season.
33. Put on a scarf, mittens, and a hat in the middle of July, and walk around downtown.
34. Change your voicemail to make it sound like you’re answering the phone
35. Have a silly string fight
36. Become an expert at something
37. Pick an official summer song
38. Play hide-and-seek at Wal-mart
39. Hand out lemons while wearing a shirt that says “Life” (or have a name tag that says “Hello, my name is life”)
40. Drive around with a “Honk if...” saying painted on the windows
41. Eat nothing but cereal for a day.
42. Bake a batch of really cute cupcakes
43. Write a letter to Alexander Rybak
44. Watch a foreign film in the original language
45. Dye my hair with temporary neon dye for the day.
46. Celebrate a foreign holiday the way natives do
47. Speak in a different language for a day. No exceptions.
48. Make my own cookie cake
49. Overdo makeup and walk around town for the day.
50. Paint my nails like flags
51. Learn how to be organized
52. Fly a kite
53. Go on a picnic
54. Stay outside for 10 hours straight
55. Talk in a British accent for at least a day
56. Ride my bike everywhere for a day
57. Get a tan
58. Take a picture in a photo booth with friends
59. Wear a mustache for a day.
60. Become a fan of foreign music
61. Act like a tourist for a day
62. Run through sprinklers
63. Make home-made pizza, make the dough and everything by yourself
64. Make a fort in my room
65. Sleep outside in a tent with friends
66. Go to the farmers market
67. Buy something unusual
68. Cook all meals for an entire day
69. Pull an awesome prank
70. Try a new and strange food
71. Have a sleepover with friends
72. Dance in the rain
73. Go to wal-mart and just sit in an aisle.
74. Dress up fancy and go to a fast-food (or a not very fancy) restaurant. Act very proper.
75. Create an alter-ego, act like them for at least a day.
76. Ride my bike in the rain
77. Photograph the ABC’s on different things
78. Jump into the sound
79. Go kayaking
80. Get over my fear of airplanes
81. Make smoothies
82. Go to a grocery store, and yell “The voices! They’re back!” when someone goes on the speaker
83. Learn how to say the alphabet backwards
84. Eat a snow cone
85. Tie-dye a set of sheets
86. Take a guitar or ukulele lesson
87. Go to the beach with friends
88. Learn how to hula-hoop
89. Go rollerblading
90. Read 5 books
91. Be able to read a German book
92. Do cool eye makeup
93. Make cookie-ception cookies (http://www.leawesome.com/2012/05/cookie-ception.html)
94. Hang out with Alyssa and other friends
95. Cosplay
96. Go on the new ferris wheel in Seattle
97. Give someone a blind makeover
98. Go to a restaurant and pretend not to speak English
99. Make a sign that says "I lost the game!" or "The game" or something
100. Go to the hardware store and ask for striped paint

My challenge begins on June 15th<3