What's on your summer agenda?
Posted by isaytomatoes on Jun 22, 2010 · Member since Jun 2009 · 209 posts
Because I'm a teacher and stay home with my kids during the summer, I have a lot more free time than I do the rest of the year. This summer I decided to improve my Spanish (I never quite mastered the past tense), which I use a lot with my students. I'm both a language geek and a folk music buff, so I've been learning some Spanish language songs I found on Youtube. My favorites are Victor Jara's "Mis Manos son lo Unico que Tengo" and the Joan Baez version of "La Llorona". The downside is that my kids really don't want to hear me singing them over and over and over...
What's on your list of personal projects for this summer?
relaxing and basking in the sun!
I've been working real hard at getting my sailboat ship-shape (and spending lots of money). I'm putting her in the water in a few days and I plan on taking her out on a overnight trip with my kids this weekend. :)
Here is where my berth is. . .
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-Read a large number of books
-Get everything ready for the fall semester
-Have fun
That's a few on my list.
Okay, my list is exceedingly long. Wish I was relaxing and baking in the sun. ;)
1. Learn a decent amount of German
2. Get A's in my summer classes
3. Learn to unicycle again
4. READ
5. Study anatomy/do a LOT of life drawings so my figure drawing teacher can't have me for lunch starting in the fall (apparently he's a hardass)
6. Finish at least 12 canvas before the end of summer (I'm working on number 5 right now)
7. Lose a bit of weight (maybe, it's not so important compared to the other stuff)
8. Cook all the time, makes lots of new things
9. Finish my composition book/sketchbook
10. Learn to run properly (my bro is teaching me!)
And that is my summer agenda.
I like this thread!!
1) Go VEGAN! (Shhh... don't tell DH).
2) Enroll in more classes, thus getting me closer to my BS.
3) Explore San Francisco!!
4) Go hiking (a lot!!) with my dog.
5) Get more into art.... creating, investing in some pieces that I find that I love, etc etc....
6) Stay tan in the Bay area despite the cold weather I will be enduring up there.
7) Cook more.
8) ................... This one I think I'll keep to myself.
I'm taking the MCAT early July, then I'm vegging out and reading for pleasure as much as I can. I need to start school apps this fall, but I want to read for fun some time soon! Also, lots of running and cooking. Perfect summer (after stupid MCATs!)
continue raw food diet
eat lots of watermelon
go swimming
drink tons of beer
picnic
country shows
andddddddd
Vegweb meetup in Asheville!!
spanish
read the graphic novels i've let build up
vegweb lost recipes
make dolls
spend time with kittehs
go from 2mi to 3mi run
i also have a summery things list. like stuff i need to do/have to make it "summer"
- WATERMELON
- make iced tea
- summer noodles
- popsicles
- beach, maybe two more times
- six flags
and other stuff i forgot.
damn you, northern hemisphere!
damn you, northern hemisphere!
Not to bring down summer since I'm SO happy it's here but....oww, have any winter plans?
haha, no it's ok, if you can talk about summer now then I can do the same when you're all covered in snow ; )
Plans:
road trip to Wellington next weekend to see my brother and Shelloid, Theo and Heli
get better/faster at running so when summer comes I'll at least be fit enough to be able to bear the heat/humidity
ummmm.... just the same old stuff we do every week!
Resume summer talk... now! : )
Get comfortable wearing my bathing suit.
Go to the pool.
Get some color.
GET A JOB!!
Get some money.
Buy some cool stuff and save money.
Community service.
Get back to doing at least some yoga.
Finish cutting the pieces for a quilt.
Read. Study. Write.
Hopefully, have a few more classes than I do now.
Quit my job
USA trip in July to see my family ^-^
Moving with my hubby to Neuchatel, Switzerland (which also means we need to find a new house this summer!)
study french
enjoy lake geneva for the few months it's sort-of warm :)
Make more soap to sell
Canning fruit and jams
Finish my sewing projects
Find someone to design my logo and get it done
Play in the garden
go to the pool and lake often
1 class in progress three more in July
do some running
do lots of yoga
eat lots of fruit
have friends over for BBQ & bonfire
Just so that you know, Rosetta Stone is a rip-off. If you haven't already, I would check to see if any of your local libraries have it.
One for the watermelon junkies: this year I'm going to make another attempt at eating my own body weight in watermelon over the summer.
Go to California to hang with my sis, her fiancé, and their fat fat cat.
Find a job! 8D
relaxing and basking in the sun!
word!
also patio gardening
Lose 2 pants sizes.
Find a hobby.
Bake multi tiered cakes to feed to other people.
Finish my craft projects.
Make aprons for AC, uS, Shelloid & Theo!
Everything else is normal things, like spend time with LB, friends, go to the Ren Faire and the latest adventure ... go skydiving.
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