- Volunteer for a charity organization
- Enroll in scuba diving lessons.
- Learn a foreign language, preferably from a different continent.
- Learn how to cook.
- Take up a new sport.
- Go on an impromptu road trip with your friends.
- Try to break a world record (your chances might be pretty slim, but half the fun is in looking for the silliest world records to break anyway).
- Create a summer 2011 playlist on iTunes.
- Build a sandcastle that could rival the ones in Boracay.
- Go on a backpacking/camping trip.
- Finish a whole round on board games like Monopoly, Taboo or Scrabble.
- Have a sleepover and swear to serve nothing but cupcakes, burgers and chips.
- Go on an all-fruit and vegetable diet the next day.
- ✔ Get an internship or summer job even if you don’t need it.
- Make popsicles from fruit juice or Coca-Cola.
- Deconstruct an old dress or shirt and make something new (that you would actually wear).
- Draw a self-portrait.
- Write a poem and send it to a literary website or magazine.
- Stay up all night to watch the sunrise.
- Push someone into the pool with all their clothes on (make sure that he/she doesn’t have anything in his/her pockets, and that you’re prepared to be pushed into the pool as well).
- Go skinny-dipping.
- Go white-water rafting or tubing.
- Go eco and start a backyard garden—try flowers or small vegetables.
- Read the entire Harry Potter, Gossip Girl, Twilight and Lord of the Rings series.
- Organize a scavenger hunt for your family or friends.
- Clean out your room and donate stuff that you don’t need.
- Make homemade ice cream from scratch.
- Go stargazing in the middle of an open field; bring a blanket and hot chocolate.
- Learn a new musical instrument.
- Build a time capsule and bury it in a secret location.
- Make a house of cards.
- Learn a new dance.
- Try bikram yoga and see how long you can last in the first class.
- Pretend to be someone else for a day. Wear a wig, try a different style of clothing, put on makeup, speak with an odd accent . . .
- Hold an eating contest with your friends: see who can eat the most, or the fastest.
- Visit a museum you haven’t seen since grade school.
- Do a Google day: learn how to use all the features of Google, like Google Earth, Maps, Reader, Scholar, etc.
- Try working on a piece of art: sculptures, paintings, drawings, etc.
- Work your way through BBC’s “Top 100 Books” reading list.
- Finish a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
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