Just 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 trial
- Go 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
So I gave myself a little bit of wiggle room with no. #3 on the list, I didn’t know which would come first (and frankly I’d still love to learn to ski) but the opportunity to take a surfing lesson came up and I jumped at it. Whilst I was on my trip to Australia I joined a group visiting Jervis Bay very last-minute, and to my delight part of this trip included a surfing lesson.
Now I wouldn’t go as far as calling myself a ‘surfer’, and I certainly have a lot more to learn, but I did manage to (with a little assistance from Geoff, our instructor), catch a wave, stand up on the board, and ride it in to the shore. And let me tell you, it was absolutely thrilling. I can’t wait to do it again and can certainly see some of my upcoming summer being spent in the water trying to recreate this moment. The only thing I’m sad about is how much colder the water will be; better invest in a wetsuit!
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