Five down, twenty-five to go; progress is rather slow! Here’s the next one along with a reminder of the list:
- Learn to ride a motorbike
- Go skydiving
Learn how to ski/surf- Eat a vegetable that you’ve grown from seed
- Deadlift 100kg
- Pay for a stranger’s meal
- Swim Boscombe to Bournemouth pier
- Learn how to play poker
- Do the splits
Have visited 30 countries- Cycle London to Brighton
Go to the opera- Read the bible entirely
- Get a tattoo
- Sleep under the stars
- Repair a bike puncture
- Go to a life drawing class
Engage in a clinical trialGo to Shakespeare’s Globe- Go to an outdoor screening of a film
- Sell a piece of artwork you’ve created
Carve a pumpkin- Do a pull up
- Go stand up paddle boarding
- Climb the three peaks
- Write and record a song
- Learn to play chess
- Visit someone in prison
- Read a famous trilogy
- Become a doctor
One of the things that has been odd about living in London during the course of the covid pandemic is just how long things were shut for. All the reasons a person would live in London; the theatres, art galleries, museums, lidos and so forth were all inaccessible for a huge chunk of my time here. Then when they finally were open I seemed to perpetually be either revising for, or sitting exams.
So now, with just a few short weeks left in London I’m suddenly aware of the fact that I’m not sure if i’ve ‘made the most’ of living here. That said, my friends and I managed to get in a trip to see A Midsummer night’s Dream at the Globe, and it was just marvellous.
We opted for standing tickets because even though we are almost doctors, we are very much still medical students on the very tail end of our loans! For many years I used to work in Starbucks so I’m not unfamiliar with being on my feet so much, however, I think its the standing still part that really got to me… Another reason to rule out surgery as a specialty!
It was a lovely evening, the kind of mid summer night where there is a gentle breeze and the occasional sound of a plane flying overhead and an amphitheatre full of laughter. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it and was glad to have had the opportunity.
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