Before I graduate Henry Clay (which I’ll admit, I’d like to
do soon), I’d like to take a couple of great backpacking trips. Someday, I’ll
backpack/snowshoe/mush across Alaska (Kenai, Wrangell-St. Elias, Gates of the
Arctic, Katmai, my Denali, so on) but sooner, I’d like to get some good three
or four day trips in. I’m planning to go with a friend or two over spring
break, I’d love to squeeze a trip into summer, and hopefully get a few more in
senior year.
Before I graduate college, I would like to have lived in the
third world for a significant period of time—two or so months at least. Living
abroad anywhere would be a culture shock, but living in abject poverty would, I
think, afford me more perspective than living a relatively cushy existence in
Western Europe or somewhere similar. I’d like most to live in Sub-Saharan
Africa, and I’d like to be conversant in the predominant language in whatever
community I live in. I foresee this taking the form of a study-abroad program,
albeit a somewhat nontraditional one.
Before I die, I’d like to do lots, including get certified
and work fighting wildfires. Wildfires are fascinating to me and I’d like to
become a hotshot or at least get a red card, and I wouldn’t mind conducting
some prescribed burns as well.
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