My Life's a Hallmark Movie: Experiment: Bucket List

" An ‘active’ Bucket List gives you a purpose, a direction & motivation to work hard or own a profitable business. A Bucket List helps you to CREATE A LIFE BY YOUR DESIGN, rather than letting life just happen to you."

Trav Bell wrote that. This man is probably my number one hero. He does for a living what i only do for my English project. For English 2010 at the college we have to choose an experiment, something to change or adapt as a habit in our life.

For my project i decided to help 5 people cross things off there bucket list, while i cross off my own bucket list. What is a bucket list you might add? It is a list of goals, dreams, aspirations of life that you want to do before you " kick the bucket"

I read something that stood out to me the other day. It goes something like: don't put off your dreams and bucket list before it's too late. It's never to early to start your bucket list.

Okay so besides Trav Bell being my hero ( here's his website to see all the amazing things he does www.thebucketlistguy.com ) i want to be in a sense other peoples hero. I want to help them achieve something they on their own might otherwise be scared to achieve.

In order to do this i went out in search for my own bucket Lister's. I thought about old people getting ready to die, young people who are sick, college students who get caught up in school and moving on with life ( THAT'S ME!!!) , mothers, people like Mother Teressa who always did stuff for other people but never for herself.

Then i realized when you did things for other people and immerse yourself in service, you become who you truly are. The search for bucket Lister's was not easy. Surprisingly, a lot of people don't have a bucket list and i just don't understand why??? It's not that hard. It is pretty much a more elaborate goal.

I have my own bucket list, I have a to-do list- before i die ( Kyle Brandt made that for me), and i have a bucket list from Elena. So you see bucket lists can be fun, something that everyone can contribute to. Its cool to see what other people have in mind for you and if they can even help you. I love seeing other peoples bucket list then adding to mine.

My Bucket List:

1. Overcome the world

2. Go to the temple weekly

3. Record a mostly instrumental album ( this will actually get me to practice with a purpose all my instruments)

3. Go to Australia

4. Teach kids in Ukraine how to speak English

5. Go cliff jumping ( Check!)

6. Always love my family

7.Get married on a rainy, then sunny day

8. Take my mom to the Swiss Alps

9. Ride in a hot air balloon

10. Become my best self

11. Be lenient and take chances in life

12. Sew my own clothes and be my own fashion designer

13. Graduate from college

14. Go to culinary school in the Czech Republic

15. Make a new friend daily

16. Visit all my foreign exchange family around the world

17. Invent something dangerous

18. Get a six pack?

19. Ride pink bike with a basket everywhere for a week

20. See dad get priesthood

21. Be sealed in the temple to my attractive husband

22. Brother.....

23. Paint a picture of the most influential thing in my life

24. Live in Florida

25. Go on a vacation with my second family

26. Never forget life and all its memories

27. Meet ........
28. Ride the city bus and act like a tourist. Get off at each spot and take pictures.

To- Do List before i die: Made by Kyle for me!

1. Go on date with Kyle William Brandt ( double check)

2. Finish high school ( Check!)

3. Kiss a guy ( Check?)

4. Smile once a day for ever to someone

5. Make bank and party with Kyle William

6. Be a hippie for a week

7. Be a monk for a month

8. Play golf for high school or college

9. Wear conf. close once a week

10. Meet a famous person each year

11. Invite Kyle William to your wedding

12. Go to each state for a day

13. Have a pizza party ( check!)

14.Go the speed limit

15. Go somewhere and scream at the top of your lungs 5 times and bring someone

16. Live some where cool

17. Test drive a BMW

18. Give Kyle William a high five each time you see him

19. Have Kyle William show you the secret hand shake

20. Eat at Hawaii ( Check!!)

21. Go to New York ( Check!)

22. Find a street address with your name in it

23. Drive a school bus for a week

24. Start a new town

Sarah's To- Do list: Made by Elena for ME!

1. Go to Spain (:

2. Go clubbing with Elena

3. Wear red underwear and burn it in new years eve

4. Date at least 25 more boys

5. Be a supermodel

6. Go running!

7. Meet your future husband and don't marry him.

8. Marry Scott ( hahaha)

9. Remember me once a week

10. Watch Remember Me once a year

11. Do something very, very illegal

12. Do it in a golf course with a golfer ( oh Elena...)

13. Learn some awesome dance moves

14. Write in the mirror

15. Say more or less a lot and make people say it

16. Teach me something that i don't know ( check!)

17. Go to a really cute castle in Europe

18. Get on a fight and win

19. Grow a mustache like your uncle

20. Drive at 5 for a day!

21. Drive at 85 for a day.

22. Tell someone that you love that you love him. ( check?)

23. Write me a to- do list ( check!)

24. Get a grade better than me in a medical anatomy test.

25.Travel the WORLD! ( with me(: )

26. Wear your green glasses for a week

27. Go to New Years Eve with me and party all night and all morning then sleep.

WEEEEW. That is a lot of things to do before i die. Good thing I'm starting early. And now for the best part. Helping other people achieve there bucket list. So Karen my greatest friend ever. This was her Bucket List # Go dumpster diving at Little Ceasers and eat the pizza. She was my first bucket Lister that i got to help.

It all started on a dusky evening precisely 10:00. First Jesse John and I watched the anxious Little Ceaser worker dump the left over pizza's into A DUMPSTER next to some hospital. Then Karen came and on ward we walked. Well, okay lets face it we ran. We tried doing all of this kind of sneaky by the way.

Then we approached the dumpster. Jesse John had the camera in hand ready to capture the moments. As he called it " Sarah and Karen's adventure into the dumpster of pure joy." All i was hoping to find in the dumpster was bread sticks. Karen just wanted the pizza. She even enjoyed our experience so much she is going again.

Climbing into that tall filth invested dumpster was the grossest most fulfilling thing i have ever done. I just put one leg on the edge and literally jumped in. Karen was in there like two seconds before me. Then, i guess the pictures will just have to explain the rest. It was one of my top five moments of my life. Yes, i ate the pizza and it was warm and delicious. We found eight boxes and a bag of BREAD STICKS! (The amazing pictures you see were taken by Jesse John Cosper )