Gap Year Bucket List

As most people know, I am taking a gap year from school at the moment. In order to make things interesting and give me motivation, I decided that it would be fun to make a Gap Year Bucket List.

It has been really fun so far trying to check off the different things that I've challenged myself to do, and I thought that it would be cool to record, for myself and anybody else who might be interested, how that journey went :)
Me and my bestie at Florence
Beach (11.11.18)

These are the things that I've put on my bucket list:

  • Going to a Demi Lovato concert
  • Sky diving
  • Go to Thailand
  • Volunteer in a foreign country
  • Do a road trip
  • Learn Chinese
  • Meet a monk
  • Write a book
  • Order a drink in a pub (because I'm legal age in Europe and most of the world now - yay!)
  • Run 1/2 marathon
  • Run marathon
  • Go to a music festival
  • Make $10,000 (getting pretty close to this one)
  • See the northern lights
  • Bungee jump
  • Do a police ride along
  • Read 50 books
Some of these I've already finished - I plan on writing some posts about those - but I want to challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone and try some of the tougher things which I think will be amazing experiences. 

If you want to follow along with my journey, stay tuned - more blog posts are coming! :) 

Comments

  1. MaterDNovember 21, 2018 at 2:39 AM

    Well done on nearly reaching you money target. I’ll be interested to read all about your ultimate experiences.😘👏🍾💕

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  2. UnknownNovember 21, 2018 at 8:38 AM

    I have no doubt you'll have an amazing year, Sophie. I have always known you'd be a world-changer. Good luck with ticking off all your items! I'll be following your blog. Sarah X

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