1) Dye my hair a fun colour
Everyone gets to a point in their life where they think that they want to dye their hair a crazy colour, and I feel like I have been at that point of my life for the past four years. I remember saying that as soon as I left secondary school I was going to dye my hair purple. But then I was in a production of Les Miserables, and after that it was my sisters wedding, and then I was in Into the Woods, and time has just flown by and I still have not really dyed my hair an extreme colour.
In summer 2018, I did go to a salon and had a rose gold colour put onto my hair, which looked fabulous, but didn't really look unnatural. It looked more like a ginger colour had been put in my hair than a rose gold colour, but this was probably due to the dye being applied directly on top of my natural colour and my hair not being bleached before the colour was applied. Although I loved this look, I don't really count this as having my hair dyed a crazy colour.
As an aspiring actor, it is going to be very difficult for me to dye my hair a different colour and still get hired. Every time you change your appearance, you have to update resumes and head shots, along with many other things. These things all cost time and money, so I don't think that it is likely that I will manage to reach this goal in the next ten years unless I totally give up on being an actor, but honestly, I'll take the acting career over the pastel pink hair.
2) Visit atleast two other Disney Parks
I am lucky enough to say that I have visited Walt Disney World in Florida six times and I am going back again for the seventh time in summer 2019. The parks are fantastic there and I do not want to sound like I am being ungrateful or unprivileged to have been given the opportunity to go there as many times as I have, but I would like to see what else is out there, and see how different Disney Parks compare.
I have had the idea in my head that I want to have a solo weekend adventure to Disneyland Paris at some point, since it is not too far away or as expensive for me to get to as some of the other Disney Parks in the world. Plus I think it would just be fun to go on an adventure for the weekend.However, I do not know how realistic this is with the dark cloud know as Brexit currently hovering over the UK and the rest of Europe at the moment.
I would love to visit California Disneyland, since obviously that was the first Disney Park to ever be built and it would just be so good to go there and to be able to say that I have been to the original Disneyland. I'd love to see their version of Fantasmic too, since that is my all time favourite Disney Show.
3) Go to New York and 4) See a Broadway Show
These two things are probably on every theatre kids bucket list, but I would absolutely love to be able to go to New York at some point in my life, even though New York is apparently a more expensive London. In the theatre world, I feel like Broadway is where the money is at, and I would absolutely love to go and see a Broadway show in order to have a better understanding of the talent it takes to be on one of those stages and so I know how far I will need to take my training to be able to get there, even though I need to break the West End first (wow I sound like such a petty actor, I promise this is all jokey! Being on broadway/west end would be absolutely lovely and I would be lying if I said that it wasn't among my absolute dream jobs, but these two things are not in my realist goals).
5) Meet a Celebrity
It would just be fun to be able to say that I have met a celebrity. There's not really anyone in particular I would like to meet, but I think it would be very funny if we met in weird circumstances, like in the like for KFC and being like "Oh my god that is Katy Perry!" or in a launderette or something similar. The weird circumstances isn't necessarily a part of the whole meet a celebrity goal, it would be pretty cool if I just bumped into Emma Watson on a street corner and was like "oh hi", but I just think the strange circumstances would just make the story much more interesting.
6) Go to Japan
There isn't really a reason behind this one, I would just like to see as much of the world as possible, and I have been to both America and Australia multiple times, so I just feel like Japan is the next country that I would like to see.
7) Grow my hair out and donate it to charity
Over many years I have suffered with body image issues and have struggled with how my hair looks. When I had it all cut off, I felt like I had finally found myself, but then it all grew out again about a year later and I was working. My life just felt like it was spiraling out of control and I cut my hair back to the length it was (very badly too) and felt like I was taking back that control. I feel like it causes me stress if my hair grows too long, and I cannot handle it being longer than a certain length.
Something that I have always wanted to do is to grow my hair out and donate it to The Little Princess Trust or a similar company, but other than when it was originally all cut off, it has not really been long enough for me to cut and donate.
I would love to try and battle this issue and allow my hair to grow longer again, and I feel like with the motivation of knowing that the next time it would be getting a proper cut it would be getting donated may help me push aside all of my issues and just allow it to grow and give it to a good cause.
I actually have intentions of beginning to allow it to grow out in autumn of this year, I feel like mental health wise I am in a much better place to allow this, and the reason why I have decided autumn and not now is because I think short hair would just be much more manageable in the Florida Weather during my holiday in summer.
8) Get a Selfie with an Alpaca
This is another one of the random ones on the list. I managed to get a selfie with a cow in the first few weeks of university, so the next animal that is on the selfie agenda is an alpaca.
9) Be in a professional production of a show
As I am currently studying musical theatre at university, I am hoping that I will be able to get something out of this. It has always been my dream to be performing on stage since I was six years old, and although things may have changed in my life, this still remains the same. I would love to be an actor on stage and would not mind what show or part I am given to achieve this since the industry is so competitive as it is so you cannot be picky with what jobs you are offered. I have been involved in many School/College productions and amature productions, but my ultimate dream is to be able to break into the professional industry of Musical Theatre.
10) Make my own Halloween costume and wear it
I have been making my own costumes and dresses for years, especially when I was younger, I had a huge interest in cosplay. I remember spending all of my money on fabric and craft foam to make a new cosplay, and my mum would tell me off for wasting my money. I have a huge passion for costume design and I would love to be able to make a costume for an occasion to wear, and what is the one night of the year where everyone has the excuse to dress up? Halloween! I would love to make an outfit to wear one day, especially since I enjoyed dressing up for Halloween 2018 so much!
11) Spend a week of my life without the internet
The amount of people who are dependent on the internet is scary. Sometimes I get the impression that if the internet went down for a day people would think that th apocalypse has hit. I wouldn't say that I am 100% reliable on the internet, but I would be lying if I said that a week without the internet didn't scare me. But before the internet exsisted we survived, so I believe that it will be refreshing and interesting to try out.
12) Manage to read 50 books in a year
I have been trying to read 25 books in a year for quite some time, and 2018 was finally the year I reached my target. This year my target is to read 30 books, but I would eventually like to be able to read 50 books in a year.
13) Work a Summer in Disney
I feel like it is everyone's dream to work in Disney at some point in their life, I would absolutely love to work there at some point if I an lucky enough. During my two years at college, I had a job as a Princess for a Company in my area and I absolutely loved it! Although I understand that there is a very intensive casting process to be a character, I would love to be able to say that I even worked in one of the shops at Disney or I walked around with the characters in the parks to make sure they were okay and to take people's photo's with them.
14) Adopt a Dog
I want to adopt a dog more than I want a relationship at this point. I have no idea what type of dog I would like to get, but we shall see what happens. If I ever get the money I want to adopt every dog that has been abandoned or put in a shelter and give them the life they deserve to have.
15) Make a start on my own business
I would love to be able to work for myself and not have to listen to anyone else, or go through the issues of having a shady manager who messes with my paycheck again. In the last few years I have thought about running my own business and what I would do, I do not have everything figured out in my head yet, but I do have a few ideas.
16) Write a Book
Having a love of books myself, I have always wanted to write my own book. I have no idea what the process is of actually writing a books and what you would need to do or even how much it would cost to get published, but this is something that has been on my bucket list for many years, and this is something I would absolutely love to accomplish in the next ten years.
17) Go on a night out and stay later than 12am
Having been over the legal age for drinking for the past two years, I am surprised to say that I have not been on a night out drinking before, unless you would count a pizza and a glass of wine at my local Weatherspoons at 7pm. I don't really feel like I have to go out, I feel like I have enough life experience without having to go out, but it is something I would like to do at least once, just so I have the experience of this.
18) Live in another country for a year
There is so much in the world that it scares me to think that I would have to stay in one place for the rest of my life. I would absolutely love to live in another country for a year just to experience other cultures and to see what life is like there. I don't really have a country in mind that I would like to live in, maybe not an english speaking country though so I will also pick up the skill of learning a new language at the same time as experiencing the culture.
19) Read Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables has been in my life since I was 13 years old, and I would absolutely love to be able to dedicate the time and effort to read the book that it was adapted from. I believe that there is so much depth and character development that may have been brushed over due to the two hour constraints of the stage play. I love reading classic stories, and so many people brush them aside because they are old. True, some of these stories are over 100 years old, but I think it is still important to appreciate older literature and to see how far we have come over time. Although I will probably finish the Lord of the Rings series before I finish reading this, which will also take a long time.
20) Go Sky diving
Because why not!
21) Play all of the Legend of Zelda Games and get as close to 100% as humanly possible
So the Legend of Zelda games have been in my life probable since I was about 7 years old when my brother got Twilight Princess. I believe I have played all of the "main" Zelda games, but I would love to be able to say that I have played every game in the series. Here are the games that I have managed to play so far:
- The Legend of Zelda
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hour Glass
- The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link between Worlds
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I won't be including all of the spin off games in this (like Hyrule Warriors and the CDI games (this one in particular since they just seem to be so terrible that I do not want to put myself through that pain)) just since the list is already so long and I want to try and 100% the games in the main series which is going to take a while. The game that I have come closest to completing in Breath of the Wild, but even then, I have no idea where all of those Korak seeds live!
22) Learn another Language
This one kind of goes hand in hand with living in another country for a year. I would really like to learn another language since I feel like people born with English as their first language sort of have an expectation for people who speak foreign languages to speak English so they can communicate rather than learning french when they know they are going to France. I learnt French and German in secondary school, but it was all the really silly stuff like "I like going to the cinema" and "My favourite colour is blue", so wouldn't really be beneficial in a real life situation. Honestly, why is Languages taught the worst in schools? Its so bad because I would have loved to be able to master a different language at an earlier age!
23) Have a non-stop Harry Potter movie marathon
This would be excluding Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise, but I would absolutely love to have a marathon watching all eight Harry Potter movies. They will always be among my favourite movies of all time, especially since I grew up with them. Kids these days will not know how it felt to go to the cinema every year or two to find out what happens in the next Harry Potter movie, although I guess that's what the generation growing up with the books would have thought about us growing up with the movies. This marathon has been a life long goal ever since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 was released, so hopefully I will eventually be able to make this happen at some point.
24) Go to a book signing
I would love to go to a book signing one day. I have only met one of the authors whose books I had read (I hope that makes sense), but she was invited into our school to give us a talk so it does't really count (although it was really cool! If you are curious to know, it was Juno Dawson who I met, she was really awesome!) But I would like to go to a book signing and meet more authors and get the chance to discuss their books with them (or whatever you do at book signings!)
25) Get a Master's Degree
I would love to carry on in education if I can, but I'm not entirely sure of how master's degree's are funded and how I would go abouts getting on. I will also have to wait and see how I feel in my third year of university before I go into making any drastic decisions to add more student debt to my name.
26) Be on TV
This has been on my list for a while, but technically I can cross this off my list as in November 2018, I worked with the BBC for Children in Need. This featured a 3 second clip of me appearing on TV in my area, but still that is an achievement!
27) Get a decent gaming PC
Currently I am using my laptop for most of my games, and the lag is absolutely terrible. I would love to get a decent gaming PC at some point so that I will be able to run games more smoothly (hopefully). But let's be honest, the only reason why I want a decent gaming PC is so that it can handle all of the Mods I want to install for the Sims!
28) Upgrade Eye-makeup skills
Eye makeup is a special kind of art, and is one that I would love to be able to master at some point. I would say now I am okay at eye makeup, but it doesn't necessarily look the best all the time.
29) Go to a Gay Bar
Yes, I have managed to make 20 and not go out clubbing yet. I remember officially starting uni and one of the staff asking me if I enjoyed my first night out and I said to her I went to bed and 9pm, and her face was a picture. I'm not really a going out person, I enjoy nights in with a hot chocolate and a movie more, but this is something that I would like to do at least once before I turn 30, plus, where else am I supposed to find some women appreciating women?
30) Go Horse Riding
Do you know when something has always been on your agenda, but you just haven't been given the opportunity to do it? That's my relationship with horse riding. It's something that I have never done before but I have always wanted to do!
So there we have it, 30 before 30! I would love to be able to come back to this list in ten years time and tick off everything that I have done and say what I have still yet to do! What are somethings that you want to do in the next ten years? Let me know!
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