my to-do list

Updated: April 24, 2025

(in random order)

Done!	Want to do
Skydive	Study East Asian history
Visit all 10 Canadian provinces	Visit the Canadian territories
See all 5 Great Lakes	Visit Labrador
Travel solo, fly solo	Live in a non-English-speaking country for a year
Guitar lessons	Learn the offside rule for hockey, football
Live alone	Create my family tree
Celebrate a birthday in Paris	See the Northern Lights
Go to Disneyland in Tokyo	Learn to juggle
Get a tattoo	Take a hair styling class
Visit the Temple of Apollo in Delphi (Greece)	Learn sign language
Read Moby Dick	Visit Iceland
Laser eye surgery	Paragliding
Jump up and down on the Great Wall of China	Drive across Canada
Take a photography class	Identify birds by their songs/calls
Milk a cow	Visit all 7 continents
Perform at Roy Thomson Hall	Rappelling at Cape Enrage at Bay of Fundy
Take a guided tour of South Korea	Take in a performance at Carnegie Hall
Start a blog	New Year’s Eve at Times Square
Write and publish a novel	Write a song
Organize a scavenger hunt	Take a tap dance class
Fly in a helicopter	Learn to drive stick shift
Change careers	Write a memoir
Ride a double decker bus in London	Ride a gondola in Venice
Fly a kite on a beach	Send a message in a bottle
Bake a cheesecake	Learn basic car repairs
Eat pizza in Italy	Be an extra in a film or TV show
Care for baby orchids (keikis)	Be a member of a studio audience
Be part of a flash mob dance	Sleep in a castle
Be in a parade	Declutter home and computer files
Master’s Degree in Creative Writing	Start a scholarship fund
Take a year off from work	Learn to read and write in Korean
Be a Jedi for a day	Learn to write with my left hand
Sing in public	Celebrate a Stanley Cup win for the Toronto Maple Leafs
Write a children’s book	Publish a collection of poems
Write a second novel	Become a full-time writer

Ann Y.K. Choi