My Bucket List

The title is kind of self explanatory, this is my bucket list for Finland. If any of you readers think of anything to add, anything at all, please comment. I want to make this list ridiculously long
  • See a Reindeer (poro)
  • Eat some reindeer
  • See the Air Guitar World Championships
  • See (or better participate in) a Nokia Throwing Contest
  • Watch a Wife Carrying contest
  • Rollerblade somewhere
  • Watch an episode of the Moomins
  • Visit each of the Rotary districts in Finland
  • Go ice fishing
  • Stay up all day for the summer solstice
  • Eat a piece of Salmiakki and enjoy it
  • Go swimming in a lake where we have to break through a layer of ice to get to the actual water
  • Ride in a reindeer sled
  • Visit somewhere above the Arctic Circle
  • Go to a Finnish hockey game
  • Be able to read and understand the Moomin number book I bought
  • Go a whole day without thinking in English
  • Have a conversation with someone in Finnish, and not have them realize that I'm not a native speaker
  • Go skinny dipping
  • Go to Ruisrock festival
  • Be absolutely blown away by the scenery 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 times
  • See the northern lights
  • Go Kayaking in Lapland
  • Visit the Helsinki Pipe Band
  • Go sailing
  • Go to a metal concert
  • Go to a music festival
  • Visit Romaniemi
  • Sleep in a snow cave?
  • Visit Oulanka National Park
  • Spend a night in that random hut about 15km from my host family's house
  • Successfully have a conversation in Finnish with everyone in my host families
  • Understand a conversation that I wasn't supposed to
  • Visit Estonia
  • Watch a Pesäpallo game (Finnish baseball)
  • Participate in a pesäpalloa peli
  • Visit Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykk
  • Visit Underground Helsinki
  • Understand Finnish humor
  • Go to sauna then jump in the snow (I can't believe I haven't done this yet!!!!)
  • Visit Sweden

2 comments:

  1. You've got skinny dipping on there twice, does that mean going twice? How about ice fishing twice?

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  2. How about "understand" a Finnish joke?

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