So I will be turning 30 soon....how soon is irrelevant its the what do I hope to do before then thats more relevant...Sooo in all my craziness the organizations Doctors without Borders sent out a plea for people to volunteer as nurses doctors etc to go to Liberia to help with the Ebola outbreak...Of course you know this would be my dream job so I randomly submitted an application - just for the heck of it...sadly I got a regret email - no surprises here but it was to the extent that they have filled the spots and in addition are looking for very specialized help - experience in tropical medicine...I was like what the heck??I thought I was a tropical health guru, speaking my fluent swahili and broken Spanish I thought would be a plus but I guess not (sigh)...So anyhu this got me thinking about 30 things I would want to have done by the time I am 30...I hae for the longets time always written down things - from resolutions heck I even wrote down the 10 things I was looking for in a man when I was right out of high school...and yes my hubby D is all of them and more...So here goes...
My 30 before 30 :
1.) Travel to Ireland and the Islands of Greece.
2.) Go skydiving - done!!!
3.) Go on a missions trip to a country with a broken health care system and help rebuild it.
4.)Succesfully complete a 5k Marathon.
5.)Be able to comfortably play an instrument - preferrably a violin or a saxophone - I love Jazz.
6.)Complete a Masters degree.
7.)Get married - done!!June 14th 2014!!What an honor to be married to my best friend. such a trip and what a riot great times ahead papi!
8.) Go to Golden Beach Hotel in Mombasa and house Number 11 in Lang'ata and relieve all our childhood memories.
9.) Have our first child - cant wait!!!
10.) Find our househelp growing up - her name is Tabbu from Mikindani in in Mombasa and tell her how awesome she is - well this may be a lifetime quest.
11.) Give a speech in front of a large group of people - done !!Commencement speech 2012!!
12.)Either cut my hair into a bob or do dreadlocks - one or the other somethings gotta gove with this mane.
13.)Help someone achieve a goal / dream they have always wanted - life coach kinda thing.
14.)Make my first million kshs...random lol not huge on money but hey would not be bad to check the bank account and see six zeros..;)
15.) Be in a place I can comfortably work from home on the days I choose and decide the days I want to go in to the office, clinic, whatever it may be.
16.)Go for a live concert of either - Boys to men, John Legend, Beyonce Israel and the New Breed..
17.)See Cirque Du Soleil live - done!!!They are amazing!!
18.) Meet Paul Farmer shake his hand look him in the eye and tell him YOU ROCK!!!- he is my health mentor, guru this man rocks he is the 21st century Mahatma Ghandi in my opinion...founder o Partners in Health google him/them
19.) Backpack / hike in a few countries with nothing but the supplies on my back - so well this may have to be lifetime goal but heck
20.)Have a blog post critiqued by Biko Zulu - done!!To have one of the best Kenyan writers comment about your blog post - fabulous!! its like Joan Rivers saying something nasty about what you are wearing - means it was noticed!!
21.) Have a side hustle as a writer / contributor in an online magazine / publication anything!!I just love / want to write about anything/ everything - health poverty travel anything!!!
22.)See the death of standardized tests such as SATs, NCLEX, GMAT, GRE, LSAT - they are just someone elses opinion of your capability...and how do you standardize knowledge??how does one lousy exam determine the kind of lawyer someone will be - just let the child enter law school.Oh and also on this I hope in the next few years there will be a rise in homeschooling - school and curriculums are overrated and too structured - why teach students only one way of learning - pass tests...its aggravating to hear someone ask, " Will this be on the exam?" really??
23.)Take my parents for an all expenses paid vacation to Cape town - or anywhere with a relaxing beach or maybe a cruise - nah my father likes to walk around on land...
24.) Go for a book signing by Chimamanda Ngozi - awesome Nigerian writer.Oh while on this how about attend the premier of the movie Americanah and meet Lupita Nyongo and tell them both Girls you have broken the glass ceilings!!
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#22 resonates with me a-lot! I'm going to home school or take my kids (yet to be conceived) to an alternative school of sorts. The present curriculum is too restrictive. It hinders creativity. There's other ways to learn, a higher realm of intellectuality to be nurtured that the present education system does not accommodate.
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