My Belgian Bucket List

I got back from Greece this afternoon, and I'm leaving for Paris in the morning. I'm in the middle of a washing machine crisis, so I don't really have the option of posting real info at the moment. I promise to fill you all in when I get back on Sunday. But for now, here's a post I wrote a few weeks ago that I've been saving. Enjoy! :)

At the beginning of the year, I made a Belgium Bucket List. I haven't paid very close attention to it, just randomly crossing things off if I remembered they were on it. But tonight, after a conversation with the ever-wise Jordan, I took another look at it, and I'm surprised by everything I've done. So, here's my list (slightly modified). I've marked off everything I've done so far, and crossed off some random things that I've changed my mind about... Some of them just aren't important to me anymore.

Belgium Bucket List

1. Have a party with Arnaud

2. Understand lui and leur (French object words)

3. Get above 80% on a science test

4. Try 7 types of Belgian beer and list them here:

1. Jupiler

2. Kriek

3. Maes

4. Pecheresse (Lindemans)

5. Chimay

6. Desperados (technically not Belgain)

7.

5. See the whole Waterloo thing (exhibit)

6. Go to an opera

7. Musée des Beaux Arts (Museum of Fine Arts) to see La Mort de Marat (the Death of Marat)

8. Read and understand Voltaire

10. Smile every day

11. Take pictures!

12. Go to the ocean with Amandine and Florian

14. DANCE!!!

15. Drink fire

16. Make friends with someone I wouldn't normally be friends with

17. Try Chichi's Mexican

18. Anvers (Antwerp)

19. Learn 12 words in Dutch

20. Stay out all night

21. Learn the bus system

22. Learn the rock

23. Get a haircut

24. Try all the fry sauces

25. Go to a football (soccer) match

26. Climb the steps of Liège

27. Understand a French movie

28. Learn to make waffles

29. Learn to dance like a Belgian

30. Learn to cook a traditional Belgian dish

31. Be able to tell the difference between a French and a Belgian accent

32. Go to a fancy dinner party

34. Go to Germany

35. See the peeing statue (the classier name for this is the Mannekin Pis)

36. Go swimming

37. Make a skirt

38. Make good chocolate chip cookies myself

39. Convince someone else to apply for an exchange

40. Find Chinese food

42. Try canned hotdogs

43. Enjoy Christmas

44. Journal in French

45. Go to a French concert

46. Go sledding

47. Forget English

48. Wear heels

49. Go to a party at someone's house

My original list has 50 things on it, but I don't want to share them with the world, so I left them off.

The things in blue I've already done.

Like I said before, some of these things are not important to me anymore. Those things are in pink.

The ones that are left... well, I still have 3 months left. I just don't want to go home saying, "I could have..."

Carpe diem!