Up with People Cast B 2010 On Tour

By Megan Luebke, USA, about our educational workshop in Varberg, Sweden

Hej Hej from Varberg, Sweden! “Hej” (pronounced like “hay”) means hello in Swedish! We are back in Sweden and we couldn’t be more excited about it! We have returned to the land of red cottages, the cheese slicer, and of course, fika!

Today Shelsea (USA), one of our awesome education interns, led a great workshop on bucket lists. Do you have a bucket list? Do you know what a bucket list is?  A bucket list is a list of things that one wishes to accomplish in a lifetime. You may be familiar with this concept if you saw the movie The Bucket List (2008) with Jack Nicholas and Morgan Freeman. Shelsea asked Cast B 2009 to write down people and things that inspire us. I wrote that things like music, writing, miracles, and laughter inspire me. The people that inspire me include my family, my niece and nephew, and our Up With People cast manager, Jen Moody.

Shelsea explained how one determines his or her values. Questions such as “How do you spend your time?” and “What do you spend your money on?” can all be attributes as to what one’s values are. She then explained that there can be seven areas of life for which one can make a bucket list: spiritual, mental, physical, social, work/service, financial, and familial (family). We all took a few minutes to write down a few goals for each area.  Here are some things that Cast B 2009 put on their bucket list.

1. I want to be able to watch a sunset from a lighthouse. (Annie Matthews, USA)
2. I want to publish a book. (Megan Luebke, USA)
3. I want to have a job that I am passionate about, and to have a family. (Nolwen Parizot, France)
4. I want to visit people that I met through Up With People, meet their families, and experience their culture. (Andy, Mexico)
5. I want to visit every continent. (Phil Woods, USA)
6. I want to do volunteer work on every continent for at least one month. (Kyle Stugelmayer, USA)
7. I want to learn how to sail a ship. (Marek Hlavac, Czech Republic)
8. I want to be a successful businesswoman. (Daniela, Mexico)
9. I want to have a family. (Sarah Yakich, USA)
10. I want to visit every single pyramid in the world. (Anthony Anaya-Gorman, Navajo Nation)
11. I want to become the best teacher I can be and educate the leaders of tomorrow (Lynsie Haley, USA).
12. I want to be successful with a happy family. (Michael Worcestor, USA)
13. I want to visit the Seven Wonders of the World. (Kelsey Kiernan, USA)
14. I want to become a famous singer. (Lima Guigarri, Switzerland)
15. I want to be my own best friend. (Caroline Andersson, Sweden)
16. I want to be trilingual in English, Spanish and Mandarin. (Keira Holt, USA)
17. I want to own a dance school. (Jochien Vandenbussche, Belgium)
18. I want to be a wonderful mother. (Rachel Velasquez, USA)
19. I want to be a humanitarian. (Leslie Kleiman, USA)
20. I want to go on tour with my own band. (Tinna Boman, Sweden)
21. I want to learn a foreign language, and inspire youth in other countries. (Cecilia Butler, USA)
22. I want to travel to Slovenia. (Rachel Hansen, USA)
23. I want to swim with manatees. (Enrique Lara, Mexico)
24. I want travel and complete a humanitarian project. (Aude Goudereault, Canada)
25. I want to feel inspiration every day. (Yume Kuchiki, Japan)
26. I want to have my own bakery in Luxembourg. (Wei Jiang, China)
27. I want to design and build my green and energy-sustainable house. (Gifford Wilcox, USA).
28. I want to see my children grow up and be happy. (Therese Rydberg, Sweden)
29. I want to have an aquarium. (Alejandra Reyes, Mexico)
30. I want to open my own preschool. (Andrea Alabado, USA)
31. I want to be a senior graphic designer/entrepreneur. (Jason Bascome, Bermuda)
32. I want to find happiness in every moment of life. (Laura Lynn Horst, USA)
33. I want to bass jump in the Cape of the Swallows. (Dylan Folsom, USA)
34. I want to be the teacher that every child will remember. (Lindsey Blatchford, USA)
35. I want to always be reading a book. (Stephanie Wagle, USA)
36. I want to invest my time joyfully. (Jimena Orea, Mexico)
37. I want to lead a scuba-diving tour, swim with dolphins, go on an African safari, run a relay for AIDS awareness, and go skydiving. (Emilie Gladback, USA)
38. I want to build and design my own car. (Niels Knoester, The Netherlands)
39. I want to become fluent in Russian. (Caitlin Stroup, USA)
40. I want to be a foster mom for an adopted child. (LIzz Holtz, USA)
41. I want to be invited to speak at a women’s conference. (Anna Struss, USA)
42. I want to buy a Ferrari. (Jorge Cantellano, Mexico)
43. I want to see how many days I can go without spending money, and learn how to surf. (Michelle Wadleigh, USA)
44. I want to travel to Africa. (Raven Smith, Bermuda)
45. I want to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef. (Matthew Erley, USA)
46. I want to look back on my life when I am 80 years old and smile. (Ronja Wienewski, Germany)
47. I want to have a loving, happy and healthy family. (Melissa Lepp, Canada)
48. I want to have a family. (Bernward Reinecke, Germany)
49. I want to climb Mount Everest. (Brandon Serna, USA)
50. I want to record a hip-hop album. (Adrian Kummerow, USA)
51. I want to be a mom. (Jen Moody, USA)
52. I want to swim with the bio-illuminescent jellyfish in Southeast Asia at night. (Paul Conzemius, USA)
53. I want to complete an Ironman. (Timothy Lewis, USA)
54. I want to be confident in my own skin and love myself for who I am. (Jessica Johnson, USA)
55. I want to go to an airport and buy the first flight I see. (Kelsey Hudspeth, USA)
56. I want to go paragliding on Machu Pichu (Manuel Rivas, Mexico)
57. I want to go to the Galapagos Islands. (Deng Tiancheng, China)
58. I want to live for the world and not for myself. (Emil Wallnér, Sweden)
59. In 20 years I want to be a pilot, and a musician who can play anything. (Naquita Rae Rivas, USA)
60. To obtain a higher education degree within 5 years. (Nilofar Amiri, Sweden)

Do you have a bucket list? If not, we encourage you to grab a pen and some paper and start writing away! It’s great to let your mind wander and write every goal that you have for yourself. And you can accomplish those goals too!  Just set your mind to it and you’ll achieve more than you ever thought possible!