Kettilsdotter

236 items on my Bucket List
64 items completed
172 items uncompleted

Animals & Nature

• Build a snow igloo
  every winter until I was about 8 years old
  
• Experience the autumn leaves in Kyoto
• Experience the cherry blossoms in Tokyo
  spring 2013
• Experience the cherry blossoms in Kyoto
• Have a snake around my shoulders
  November 3, 2016
• Hold a snake
• Hold a big spider
  November 3, 2016
• Pick wild berries
  during all of my childhood
• Pet a dolphin or a whale
• See the Northern Lights
  several times when I was a child
• Visit a bamboo forest in Japan
• Visit an impressive waterfall
• Visit a cat cafe in Japan
  2013

Finances & Career

• Be debt free
• Become a housewife
• Get a book published
• Get a passive income
• Lend money through Kiva
• Participate in the book fair in Gothenburg
• Pay off my student loan
• Save 3 months of expences in an emergency fund
• Save 6 months of expences in an emergency fund
• Start my own business
• Win a large amount of money
• Work abroad
• Work from home

Household

• Build a house
• Buy a house
• Decorate a reading nook at home
• Furnish the home-library of my dreams
• Rent a half-timbered house in Skåne

Fun & Weird

• Be an extra in a movie or television series
• Catch a random flight to an unknown place in the world
• Complete a 1000-pieces pussle on my own
• Complete a 1500-pieces pussle on my own
• Complete a 2000-pieces pussle on my own
• Dress up for Halloween
• Find a fossil
• Fly first class
• Learn to juggle
• Learn to play poker
• Participate in a flash mob
  London – June 2011
• Play in a children’s playground in the middle of the night
• Play real-life Quidditch
• Ride a limousine
• Ride a rollercoaster mentioned in the Guiness Book of World Records
  at Fuji Q Highland in Japan – August 2012
• Run around barefoot in the rain
• Stay overnight at a 5-star hotel
• Stay overnight at a haunted place
• Stay overnight at a weird hotel
  • Stay overnight at the ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi
• Swim in the moonlight
• Watch a Harry Potter movie marathon
• Watch a Hobbit & LotR movie marathon
• Watch a LotR movie marathon
  December 2004

Creativity

• Bake a character cake
• Buy and complete a children’s coloring book myself
• Create a website
  a number of different websites since 2001
• Decorate a t-shirt
  2005
• Knit a scarf
  2000
• Knit a sweater
  2001
• Knit children’s clothing
  2016
• Learn to make 5 different origami figures
• Start a personal blog
  2008
• Write a children’s book
• Write a novel

Body & Health

• Be able to do a split
• Complete the ski race Vasaloppet
• Go on a retreat
• Reach my ideal body weight
• Run a 5k
  Vårruset 2010
• Run a 10k
• Run a half-marathon
• Run a marathon
• Start drinking macha tea regularly
• Start meditating regularly
• Try curling
  2002 or 2003

Education & Learning

• Get a diving certificate
• Get a pilot certificate
• Get my drivers license
  September 2006
• Learn a language: Japanese
  • Pass JLPT level N3
    July 2013
  • Pass JLPT level N2
  • Pass JLPT level N1
  • Learn Japanese fluently
  • Learn Kansai-ben
• Learn a language: Spanish
• Learn horse-back riding
  1996-2003
• Try horse-jumping
  2000-2003
• Learn to dance Swedish “bugg”
  2004-2005
• Learn to play the piano
  1994-2002
• Learn to play the flute
  1999-2008
• Study creative writing
• Study for a University Degree
  Bachelor’s Degree in Media & Communications Science 2011
• Study for a University Degree in Japanese
• Study online for a certificate to teach English as a second language
• Study to become a health care administrator
• Study to become a preschool teacher
• Study to become a translator
• Try archery
  2010
• Learn archery

Food & Drink

• Drink at a traditional pub in Scotland
• Eat at a traditional izakaya in Japan
  2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Have a traditional Afternoon Tea in England
• Eat pizza in Italy
• Eat omurice in Japan
  2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Eat shabushabu in Japan
  2013, 2014, 2016
• Eat sushi in Japan
  2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Eat yakiniku in Japan
• Eat yakitori in Japan
  2013, 2014, 2016

Culture & Leisure

• Celebrate Christmas in Tokyo
  Christmas 2012
• Cosplay
• Disco bowling
• Go to see kabuki in Japan
• Go to see the ballet “The Nut Cracker”
• Go to the circus
• Gocart
• Learn to rollerblade
• Participate in a tea ceremony in Japan
• Read all books written by J.R.R. Tolkien
  6/35
• Ride a ferris wheel
  2016
• See all of my favorite bands live in concert
  Hanson (2005-2011), Tokio Hotel (2007-2010), Tackey & Tsubasa (2012), Hey! Say! JUMP (2012-2015), Nakayama Yuma (2012-2016)
• Sing karaoke in Japan
  2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Sing karaoke duets in Japan
  2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Try historical swords fighting
• Try playing the harp
• Try pottery
• Try stonemasonry
• Visit 5 famous libraries
• Visit a Christmas Fair in Germany
  Hamburg 2008
• Visit a folk music festival
  Linköping 2008
• Visit a medieval fair
  in Hova several times as a child and teenager
• Visit a murder mystery dinner
  2015, 2016
• Visit Madame Tussauds in London
• Visit RingCon in Germany
• Visit Skokloster Castle in Sweden
• Visit the Harry Potter studio in London
• Visit the Medieval Week Fair in Gotland
• Watch a sumo practice in Tokyo
• Wear a kimono for a day in Japan
  Nikko 2015

Personal Development

• Become an “early riser”
• Complete a tough 30 Day Challenge
• Create balance in my life
• Donate blood
• Make a difference in someone’s life
  sponsoring a child since 2008
• Participate in a charity walk
  winter 2010 and June 2011
• Process and put behind me problems of the past
• Read the Bible, the Koran and the Tora
• Sponsor a child
  since 2008
• Sponsor an animal

Travel

• Travel to France
  • Visit the catacombs with all the skulls under Paris
  • Visit the Louvre
  • Travel to Paris
  • See the “Mona Lisa”
• Travel to Germany
  • Travel to Berlin
  • Travel to Hamburg
    winter 2008
  • Travel to Hannover
    May 2007
  • Visit the castle Neuschwanstein
• Travel to Great Britain
  • Ride the London Eye
  • Roadtrip to historically important places in Scotland, Wales and England
  • See the Changing of the Guards at Buckingham Palace
    June 2011
  • Travel to London
    June 2011
  • Travel to Nantwich in Cheshire, England
  • Travel to York
  • Visit Innerpeffray Libraryin Scotland
  • Visit King Arthur’s cave in Herefordshire
  • Visit Stonehenge
  • Visit the chained library in a building belonging to the cathedral of Hereford
  • Visit the Tower of London
  • Walk across Tower Bridge, London
    June 2011
• Travel to Greece
  • Visit Acropolis
• Travel to Guatemala
  • Visit children I’m sponsoring
• Travel to Iceland
• Travel to Italy
  • Visit the Colosseum in Rome
  • Travel to Pompeji
  • Travel to Rome
  • Travel to Venice
  • Ride a gondola in Venice
• Travel to Japan
  • Visit all the big islands in Japan
    1/4 (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu) 
  • Visit the snow/ice festival in Sapporo
  • Visit Universal Studios, Osaka
  • Travel to Kyoto
  • Travel to Tokyo
    2012-2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Travel to Tsumago (traditional village)
  • Experience summer fireworks in Japan
    summer 2012, summer 2013, summer 2014
  • Look at the city views from Tokyo Tower
    spring 2013 with my family
  • Look at the city views from the top of Tokyo Tower at night
• Travel to New Zealand
  • Visit the spots for recording the Lord of the Rings movies
• Travel to Peru
  • Visit Machu Picchu
• Travel to Russia
  • Visit The Hermitage (museum)
• Visit a concentration camp (Auschwitz, for example)
• Visit Disney Land / Disney World / Disney Sea
• Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Social & Relationships

• Be a bridesmaid
• Fly a kite with children / nieces and nephews
• Get engaged
  February 2011
• Break my engagement
  March/April 2012
• Get engaged again
• Get married
• Go on an Illumination date in Tokyo
  December 2016
• Go to a wedding
  my brother’s wedding in July 2016
• Research my ancestry
• Travel to Japan for a family holiday
  spring 2013
• Travel to Japan for a family holiday again

Adventure

• Canoeing
  at a camp during middle-school
• Climb Mt. Fuji
  almost in August 2012
• Dive at the Great Barrier Reef
• Dive with sharks
• Experience an earthquake
• 2012-2013 when I lived in Japan (but not a big one)
• Experience weightlessness
• Fly a Tiger Moth
• Fly a hot air balloon
• Go dogsledding
• Go by horse-and-sleigh
• Go by horse-and-carriage
• Go on a whale safari
• Learn surfing
• Live in Japan
  July 2012 – September 2013
• Ride an islandic horse on Iceland
• Scuba-diving
• Swim with dolphins
• Try parachuting
• Try segway
• Try windsurfing
• Try zorbing
• Watch the sun rise from the top of Mt. Fuji