Catch you on the flip side.

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals" -Zig Ziglar

All great things always come to an end, right? This is the second-to-last week of my ninth grade year. I had many ups and downs but overall, it was a pretty fun year. I met so many nice, new people and I also experienced a ton of new things. In my first blog pot, I mentioned that my bucket list would be for my ninth grade year. With that being said, my bucket list must come to an end.

This bucket list brought so many positive things into my life. It encouraged me to try new things from taking a spinning class to trying a coconut. It also brought me closer to a lot of people because I was able to share my experiences with them, and my blog readers. My bucket list has given me no regrets and I encourage all of you to make one too. It doesn't have to be now, but sometime in your life a bucket list might just come in handy. From suffering from boredom to craving adventure, a bucket list could be the answer to your situation.

I hope I can continue to try new things by making a summer bucket list. Who knows, I might just have to start a new blog theme for that one.

Do 10 random acts of kindness.

How great is it that our small acts of kindness can make someone else's entire day? Pretty great right? It gives me a warm feeling inside when I see how happy someone can get from just one simply "I love your shirt".

I gave this item on my bucket list a little spin. I took some time out of everyday last week to ask people what kindness meant to them. Tons of answers were pilling up ranging from little acts like giving hugs to large acts like giving someone $1000. After recording everyone's opinions of kindness, I made "The Kindness Rules".

Treat people how you would like to be treated. Say "I love you". Write loving notes. Say "please" and "thank you" and mean it. Forgive. Respect everyone. Don't hurt others on the inside or out. Give. It's nice to be nice. Hug. Say "good morning". Listen. Share. Lend. Inspire. Help. Smile. Encourage. Offer. Donate. Compliment. Open doors. When you get new clothes, give away something old. Give flowers. Give kisses. Apologize. Support. Let everyone play. Play fair. Do all the good you can in all the ways you can.

Those are just a handful of the answers that I received. I hope you can use this list to take some time out of your life to put a smile on someones face.

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see" -Mark Twain

Eat something that I have never eaten before.

Believe it or not, I haven't ever eaten a coconut before. I know it's crazy, especially since I have lived in Miami for 10 months, but I ate my first coconut a couple of days ago

My family and I were at the Fairchild Market last Sunday. We were peacefully sitting under a couple of palm trees when my brother noticed that there were HUGE coconuts hanging from the trees. We were about to move, but then out of the blue, one fell with a bang right behind me. I didn't expect my visit to the Fairchild Market ending up to being an almost-death experience.

I picked up the coconut after all of the shock flushed out of me and realized that there was milk in it. My family decided to take it home so we could try to break it open. Well let me just say that you missed out on me trying to "hammer" a coconut open...

After many hours (more like 30 minutes but it felt like hours), I finally managed to crack open that pain-in-the-butt coconut. I was expected there to be a waterfall of coconut milk but there was only enough to fit into the palm of my hand. Once I got all the milk I could out of this "killer" coconut (get the reference?), I took out some of the white flakey strips inside of it.

The white flakey strips tasted like the coconut smelled. I really enjoyed it and I plan to eat more coconuts in the future. But next time I will probably have someone crack it open for me.

After this experience, I realized how important it is to try new things. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Do what you love and don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths" -Walt Disney

Sick as a dog.

I don't really understand why people say "I am as sick as a dog". What does a dog have to do with getting sick? If I had to make up my own simile involving being ill, I would say "I am as sick as a marathon runner". No, marathon runners are not sick, but right now, I feel as if I had just struggled through 20 of them.

All this week I have not been feeling well. With that being said, I haven't been able to complete a new task on my bucket list. I deeply apologize, I have broken one of my "bucket list goals" that includes checking off a new addition to my bucket list each week. Sorry!

While I have been sitting in my bed all this week, I did look up why people said "I am as sick as a dog". If you're curious, it is because dogs eat just about anything they find, and that often leads to them getting sick. So it is fitting to describe someone who is not feeling well as being "sick as a dog". B(arf)!

"If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up agains the odds." -Jesse Jackson