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21 Things I've Been Blessed To Experience In 19 Years

My backwards bucket list.

Sara Bryan
Dec 13, 2016
Abilene Christian University
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21 Things I've Been Blessed To Experience In 19 Years
Sara Bryan

Everyone knows that a bucket list is compiled of all the things a person wants to do in life.

In honor of the Holidays, and my recent return from 4 months in South America, I decided to recognize of all the things I have been fortunate enough to have done by the age of 19. This list is to remember the things I am blessed and thankful to have achieved.

I call it a backwards bucket list:

1. Snorkeling off of the Galapagos Islands

2. Parasailing in Haiti

3. Helmet diving in Bermuda (I got to hold a fish in my hands)

4. Swimming with dolphins in Mexico

5. Been to the top of the Empire State Building

6. White river rafting in Colorado

7. Watched dolphins bow-ride in the Everglades

8. Pet/swam with stingrays near the Cayman Islands

9. Went river tubing in Belize

10. Visited Cristo in Brazil

11. Hiked the Andes in Chile

12. Been inside of the White House

13. Climbed a waterfall in Jamaica

14. Spent 4 months in Uruguay

15. Been to Machu Picchu

16. Hiked Waynapicchu

17. Travelled to Ecuador

18. Shopped at La Boca in Argentina

19. Been to Pearl Harbor

20. Flown in a Helicopter over Hawaii (the door fell off mid-air)

21. Watched the Fourth of July fireworks from both a boat on the Hudson river in New York and from the Lincoln Memorial in DC

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