5. Pass the Mini-Bus Test

This happened a few weeks back now, but i did manage to pass the mini bus test and have been able to take a few trips out in the universities bus!

I am actually really proud of this one, not because I passed but because it is an item on the list that has helped me to try new things that I hadn’t tried before, which as this was the ethos of the blog fits really well.

Now the above in my opinion is too short for a post in my opinion, so let me share this small anecdote with you. My University’s Student Union provides students with the opportunity to take part in volunteering activities, now I had never considered taking part in these as I never thought that they would quite be my cup of tea. On this point I was very very wrong! (This is why I am adding volunteering to the list!) On one of the MAD days I volunteered to help out by doing the mini bus driving for I arrived at the uni and the battery of the bus was flat, cue an hour and a half of stress, failed attempts to jump start a ford transit with a ford ka, a failed attempt to warm people up with hot chocolate from a closed bar, and a panicked phone call to the breakdown assistance people! Luckily we did manage to eventually get the bus going and got to Swanage, but more on that later!

I hope in the coming year to take many trips in the mini buses and that these will lead to many more experiences that I can blog about!

18. Play World of Warcraft

Now this one slightly goes against the ethos of the blog. The idea was I tried things I always wanted to but ever had. Now WoW was always one of those things I had mocked my friends for and had decided I was not sad enough to waste my time on something so trivial.

However recently as some of my friends may have notice I have been MIA from the internet for a little while and this is down to my discovery of WoW. Now in a rare set of circumstances it was actually my girlfriend who badgered me to give the game a shot and once I had I was hooked.

I had always had the sneaking suspicion if I tried it I would like it as  I had been addicted to an MMORPG before which was very similar, and I was right. The difference this time is that i am not a lonely 12 year old with way to much time on my hands.

My only hope as I try to level my new character is that I do not loose sight of the real world and this list and its aims as I seek out new adventures both on Earth and in Azeroth.

I wrote this a while ago and never posted it, and as a new post soon will affirm there are many items I have not accomplished, and I can honestly not blame WoW for these failures!