Out with the old...in with the new.

I figure as 2007 comes to a close, I should reflect upon all the incredible things it has brought me, as well as look ahead to all the goals I would like to accomplish in 2008....

Accomplishments for 2007:

Visited:
Switzerland
France
Germany
Sweden
Belgium
Spain
Denmark
Austria
Czech Republic
Poland
Hungary
Italy (and Sicily)
Vatican City
China
Boston, Mass
Cape Cod, Mass
Newport, Rhode Island

Accomplishments:
Lived in Switzerland for 4 months
Lived in Washington DC for 2 months
Received an A in Microeconomics
Attended meetings at the WTO, WHO, ICRC and United Nations
Swam in Lake Geneva
Visited Auschwitz
Was detained on the Swiss/French border
Paddleboated in the Charles River
Studied French again
Organized meetings for delegates from throughout Africa, Russia and Indonesia through the State Department International Visitor Leadership Program
Worked for a Non-Profit organization
Photographed the Sistine Chapel
Gained and lost 15 pounds
Learned to love dark chocolate
Watched 4th of July fireworks on the National Mall
Ate at a traditional Moroccan restaurant
Took the LSAT
Applied to law school
Was a bridesmaid in my brother's wedding
Tried Sushi for the first (well, second) time...and liked it!!

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Goals for 2008:

Visit:
Great wall of China

Accomplish:

• Become a vegetarian (after January 11th)

• Run a mile in under 7:00

• Read the "Great Ideas" series by Penguin

Seneca Marcus Aurelius St Augustine Thomas a Kempis Niccolo Machiavelli Michel de Montaigne Jonathan Swift Jean-Jacques Rousseau Edward Gibbon Thomas Paine Mary Wollstonecraft William Hazlitt Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Arthur Schopenhauer John Ruskin Charles Darwin Friedrich Nietzsche Virginia Woolf Sigmund Freud George Orwell

On the Shortness of Life Meditations Confessions of a Sinner The Inner Life The Prince On Friendship A Tale of a Tub The Social Contract The Christians and the Fall of Rome Common Sense A Vindication of the Rights of Woman On the Pleasure of Hating The Communist Manifesto On the Suffering of the World On Art and Life On Natural Selection Why I Am So Wise A Room of One's Own Civilization and its Discontents Why I Write

• Write one letter per week
• Generally, become more organized and scheduled
• Study 20th century war history
• Take yoga
• Graduate from college (AH!)
  
• Move into my first 1 bedroom apartment (AH!)
  
• Attend law school (AH! AH!)
  
• Go "green"
• Start a "rainy day" fun---i.e. start saving

and for fun...

• Watch the Bourne series

More to come I'm sure. Sad to see what was probably the most amazing year of my entire life go, but looking forward to new adventures that 2008 is sure to bring :-)

Currently reading...The Communist Manifesto
Currently listening to... Die Alone - Ingrid Michaelson