Being at home is hard

An encouraging quote I heard on a commercial the other day, that's getting me excited about study abroad. The same is true for college, or at least it used to be:

"Isn't it funny, when we go someplace where nobody knows us, we become most ourselves."

Here's that list of stuff I want to do this summer:

• Find my book from Japanese Lit. I'm getting upset about this.
• Sheldon art galleries -- thesheldon.org
• Clayton Farmers Market (Done and it sucked)
• Art Museum -- general collection and weekly gallery talks -- slam.org
• Jungle Boogie at the Zoo -- stlzoo.org (Still a little too kiddy? Need to find the right band maybe. And that dancing lady goes to it @___@ she ruins everything for me now... Who the heck is she? And why is what she does legal again?)
  
• Missouri Botanical Gardens -- the garden itself, Garden Party Nights, and the Whitaker Music Festival -- mobot.org
• The Muny -- muny.org
• Drive-in Movie Theatre Date
  
• Twilight Teusdays at the Missouri History Museum -- mohistory.org
• Contemporary Art Museum -- contemporarystl.org
  
• Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts -- pulitzerarts.org
• Laumeier Sculpture Park -- Music and film evenings --
  
• Cahokia Mounds
• Citygarden Opening (at Plaza Frontenac??)
• The Hill
• Metro -- Ride from Shrewsbury to the other end (across the river), also see what's around the Maplewood Stop
• File taxes from the past 4 years or so
• Taiwanese Heitage Week at the Science Center
• Gain listening comprehension of Spanish and reading comprehension of German , learn to read/write Hangul
• Skype some important people
• Steady exercise program, which includes biking (biking completely through Forest Park (so pretty)! and possibly Moonlight Ramble), running, weightlifting, push/pull-ups/crunches/sit-ups/supermans/cores
• Keep up with Chinese, possibly buy 2nd year books for study
• Learn 1000 漢字 (= buy the 4th year book from the bookstore -__-;;) and sucessfully keep a written journal in Japanese
• Ted Drewes/Mr. Wizard's
• Cook
• Hang out with other STL people
• Go Hiking
• Build Tent, camp in backyard
• Pack up stuff want to keep in boxes, throw everything else away
• Watch a lot of movies
• Wake up at a consistent time (as of now 8 am) and be moving by within 30 minutes of awakening
• Keep up on music, dramas
• Learn about American culture
• Read all the books in my pile
  

More to come, hopefully? Or maybe, not so hopefully. Hehe.