Zeynep's Impossible List

An Impossible List is essentially an ever-evolving list of skills or experiences that you seek. If you think that you could help me with any of these items (or that I could help you with yours), please let me know!

Skills & Hobbies

Arts & Crafts

• Join an amateur orchestra again
• Join a choir
• Complete the #100daysofpractice challenge
• Pass ABRSM
  • Grade 5
  • Grade 8
• Keep an art journal for a month
• Sew entire wardrobe by self
• Take a photo everyday for a year
• Open an online art shop
• Learn embroidery
• Learn fingerpicking on the ukulele
• Design a mechanical keyboard
• Become a better digital illustrator [Q1-4]

Fitness

• Squat 1.5x my body weight
• Deadlift 2x my body weight
• Run a sub-20 min 5k
• Run a 10k
• Complete my first century ride
• Participate in Ironman
• Take up ice-skating [01.24.2019]
• Enroll in an adult figure skating class
• Learn basic swing dancing [03.25.2019]
• Learn aerial yoga
• Do a headstand
• Do one unassisted pull-up
• Do 10 pull-ups in a row
• Achieve resting heart rate of 55 BPM [Q1-2]
• Reach 20% body fat

Health

• _Become a pescaterian [01.01.2017]
• Meditate for ≥ 10 minutes everyday for three months [04.01.2019]

Languages

• Become fluent in (C1-C2)
  • French [Q1]
  • Russian
• Reach an intermediate level at (B1-B2)
  • Mandarin
  • Finnish
  • German
• Learn ASL

Life

Experiences

• Volunteer for a cause dear to my heart
• Give a TEDx talk
• Go to space
• Spend a month at a Buddhist monastry
• Swim with dolphins
• Grow edible things at home
• Cook one recipe from each major cuisine
• Don’t purchase clothes from fast fashion stores for a year
• Build a sustainable smart home
• Start getting my family together for an annual trip
• Set up and live on a permaculture farm for a year
• Design and build my dream home
• Learn first aid
• Keep a blog consistently

Travel

• Live abroad for a year [08.01.2019]
• Stay at an ice hotel
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Set foot on all continents
  • Asia
  • Africa
  • North America
  • South America
  • Antarctica
  • Europe
  • Australia
• See the Northern lights
• Bikepack across a country [01.05.2018]
• Go on a Trans-Mongolian journey
• Travel along the North Sea coast of Turkey
• Board the Eastern Express and go all the way to Kars
• Walk in every neighborhood in Toronto
• Visit
  • Japan
  • Scotland
  • Iceland
• See more of Canada
  • Toronto
  • Banff National Park
  • Algonquin Provincial Park
  • Montreal
  • Ottawa
  • Niagara Falls
  • Vancouver

Social / Community

• Start a local community
• Create an online community
• Start a scholarship fund
• Start a non-profit
• Have a school built in an underprivileged country

Academic / Professional

• Graduate college [10.06.2017]
• Submit my first paper [02.26.2019]
• Graduate with a Master’s degree [12.10.2019]
• Teach a university class
• Write a non-fiction book