The One-Year List

Welcome to my One-Year List!

On this page I will keep the "bucket list" for my 10 or so months abroad. Some will be tourist related, others will be personal.

More than likely, I will come up with additional items for the list, and will also try to remember to cross them off so you can see my progress!

Please feel free to comment below if you can think of any other things I should see/do while I am in Europe! But do realize that I did do some tourist-y sightseeing in France back in 2008, so I've already ridden the métro, went to the Eiffel tower (and went to the top, and ate in the not-so-great restaurant), seen a castle or two..things like that.

The One-Year List:

Paris:

• Eat a Ladurée macaron
• Enjoy the Louvre at least twice (and try not to spend my day staring at my favorite piece: La Victoire!)
• Visit France Miniature
• Tour Versailles Palace
• Go into Notre Dame  06JAN2015

France:

• Visit Parc du Petit Prince
• Drink real champagne, in the Champagne region
• See the Alpes
• See the Pyrenées  20DEC2014
• Visit Reims 13-15DEC2014

Europe:

• Visit a friend in Barcelona - Didn't make it :(
• Go to the Doctor Who shop in England
• Visit Belgium
• Visit Budapest/Hungary
• Visit Germany
• Visit Romania (but I have promised to not go alone)
• Make a friend to go to Romania with
• Stop in Italy and eat some gelato, just to say I've been there and ate real gelato

Personal:

• Try really hard not to get pickpocketed/robbed
• Drop two dress sizes?
• Buy at least 2 scarves
• Try to buy at least one pair of shoes 07JAN2015
• Speak to a stranger. In French.
• Buy a day travel bag
• Don't cry when lost in France
• Don't cry when lost in Limoges
• Don't cry when lost in class - Yeah, that didn't work out.
• Don't stress out about grades (hahahahaha. Yeah, okay)
• Be mistaken for Canadienne
• Be mistaken for European
• Be mistaken for French (ha.)
• Be mistaken for a Parisienne (hahahahahahahaha. A girl can dream!) 
• Make some friends
• Speak French with confidence in public
• Do some heritage investigation (some of my ancestors came from Paris, Normandie region, Bretagne region, and possibly Poitiers)
• Take a picture of every carousel I find!
• Don't spend all my money, but if I do, know it'll be okay
• Take a cooking class if I have time!