My Bucket list

Tyler Viducic 4/26/09

My Bucket List

· Get my Masters Degree
· Hit an expensive electronic device with a hammer
· Fly to Croatia
· Crash a Ferrari
· Go to an NHL Stanley Cup game
· Learn to surf
· Paint my chest for a sporting event
· Go to a tail-gate party
· Work at Area-51
· Fly in a F-16
· Write a book
· Meet Alexander Ovechkin
· Own a Jeep Wrangler
· Watch every Bond movie
· Visit Australia
· Meet my entire family
· Win the lottery
· Enter the World Series of Poker
· Finish the Iron Man race
· See all the kids I keep in contact with from JrNYLC
· Go indoor skiing
· Break the most-eaten-hotdog record at Ruts Hut
· Have a planet named after myself
· Donate millions of dollars to Scientology (as a joke)
· Make Varsity hockey
· Base-jump off a waterfall

A Bucket List is a list of things you want to do before you die. My bucket list has a wide variety of weird things like crash a Ferrari or hit an expensive electronic device with a hammer. However, there are several things on the list that mean a lot to me. These are things that I want to do the most before I die. Each has its own special meaning and is important to me in its own way. Before I die, the things I would like to do most are get my Masters Degree, fly to Croatia, finish the Iron Man race, see all my friends from JrNYLC again, and make the Varsity Hockey team.

Before I die, I want to get my Masters Degree in some type of science or engineering. No one in my family has ever been to college and I want to be the first to not only attend, but to graduate with a higher degree. To me, there can be no higher honor then to be the first in my family to achieve such a tremendous accomplishment. I know it will take much work, but I am prepared to try my hardest to do this before I die

Also, before I die, I wish to fly to Croatia. You may be wondering “Why Croatia?” Yes, Croatia is a very small and inconspicuous country, but I want to visit it because my family is from Croatia. My grandmother lived in Croatia during WWII. My grandfather lived in 6 countries but has always claimed Croatia is the most beautiful country he has ever been in. More than half of my extended family lives in Croatia and unless I visit, I will never meet them. Also, my grandmother owns an Island in Croatia that may eventually fall into my hands. It is the place of my origin and I want to see it badly.

Another “item” on the list is finishing the Iron Man race. The Iron Man is the hardest triathlon in the world. It takes place in Hawaii and consists of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and a marathon. It is the ultimate test of endurance and ever since I have heard of it, I have dreamed to become and Ironman. My goal is not to win, but to finish. To finish, you need not only to complete the courser, but finish in less than 17 hours. While this seems like an impossible task, I feel that with proper training and will power, an average guy like me can complete it.

One of my hardest-to-achieve goals is meeting up with all my old friends from JrNYLC. We are scattered all over the country and the likelihood of seeing them again is very slim. They are some of my closest friends and will be my peers fro the rest of my life. It would be the best day of my life if I saw them again. It is such a pity that I have only seen them once and will make the biggest effort of all my goals to complete this one.

Lastly, I want to make the varsity hockey team. I have been playing hockey for my entire life. However, I have played roller hockey for most of it and started late in the game for ice hockey. Roller and ice hockey are two completely different games, and it is very demoralizing to not be so good at ice hockey, where it really counts. It would be a great achievement to make the varsity hockey team since I only started playing ice hockey in eight grade, and never played travel hockey until this year (coincidentally yesterday I started, or made the team).

These are the top things to do on my bucket list. These are the things most important to me and the things I would like to do most before I die. While the list does include some stupid, random stuff, there is also significant meaning behind it. Most of the list is very real, and I want to complete most of it. I hope I can do everything on it.