• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• ✔ Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
• ✔ Triumph & Hope - Barbara E. Joe
• ✔ The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• ✔ East of the Sun - Julia Gregson
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• ✔ Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• Three Cups of Tea
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (halfway through!)
• Crank - Ellen Hopkins
• ✔ Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
• Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• ✔ A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• ✔ Kafka on the Shore - Huruki Murakami
• ✔ South of the Border, East of the Sun - Hu...

• San Fran trip (bring Sarah & Alicia, shop in Haight and Ashbury, eat in China Town.)
• ✔ Get cartilage pierced
• ✔ Shopping in Sonoma (thrift stores!)
• ✔ Peru trip (start preparing asap)
• ✔ Tanning
• Beach day (maybe Stinson? Santa Cruz?)
• Street performing (with Bryanna playing violin downtown, to save money for New York.)
• ✔ Volunteer at SPCA again
• Biking (with Sarah)
• Play tennis
• Dye hair, cut it?
• ✔ Personal statements

• Alaska
• Austria
• Bali
• Bangladash
• Costa Rica
• Egypt
• ✔ England
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• ✔ France
• Greece
• Guatamala
• Hong Kong
• Hungary (Budapest)
• Iceland
• India (Goa)
• Ireland
• Italy
• ✔ Japan
• Jordan
• Keyna

• Ricola cough drops
• America's Next Top Model
• Online shopping
• Bacon with syrup
• Drawing swirls in chem
• Socks
• Planes

• Chopin- Revolutionary Etude
• Liszt- Leibestraum
• Rachminov- Prelude in C# Minor
• Chopin- Fantasie Impromptu
• Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata Mvt. 3
• to be continued

• Fiji
• Keyna
• Indonesia
• Uganda
• Peru
• Guatemala
• Cambodia
• Thailand
• Tibet
• India
• Ethiopia
• Madagascar

• The Violet Hour - Sea Wolf
• Your Heart is an Empty Room - Death Cab for Cutie
• Spaceman - The Killers
• Grapevine Fires - Death Cab for Cutie
• Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
• Crooked Teeth - Death Cab for Cutie
• Somebody Told Me - The Killers
• Passenger Seat - Death Cab for Cutie
• This Too Shall Pass - OK Go
• A Quarter Past Wonderful - Oren Lavie
• Dog Days Are Over - Florence & the Machine
• Float On - Modest Mouse
• Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
• Brothers On a Hotel Bed - Death Cab for Cutie
• The Only Exception - Paramore
• 1812 Overture - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
• Candlelight - Relient K
• Boy With a Coin - Iron and Wine

• TOMS - work at the shoe drops
• GoEco (working with pandas in China, lions in Africa, or teaching English to Buddhist monks in Nepal!)
• African Conservation Experience
• to be continued...

• Sleep in as late as possible.
• Drink endless ammounts of coffee and/or hot chocolate and/or tea.
• Puddle jump.
• Read a minimum of three books.
• Cuddle with a cat. Unless you're allergic.
• Walk outside, with an umbrella.
• Listen to music. Preferably Bach or Death Cab.
• Make chocolate chip cookies.
• Eat chocolate chip cookies
• Catch up with an old friend.
• Watch Audrey Hepburn movies.
• Do yoga.
• Light candles.

• the sky
• sunshine
• music
• rain
• books
• the smell of books
• the ocean
• fuzzy socks
• photography
• bagels with cream cheese
• traveling
• cats
• flowers
• laughing till your stomach hurts
• San Francisco
• piano
• Buddha
• coffee
• redwood trees
• ice cream
• weird inside jokes

• Bones (it's so bad that now my future career prospect is becoming a forensic anthropologist... yeah...)
• Fringe
• Grey's Anatomy (it has taken me only two days to watch almost every episode of season two. i am utterly pathetic.)
• Castle
• Glee
• The Office (everything that Dwight Shrute says = hilarious.)

• freshly baked cookies
• rain
• christmas trees
• new books
• Bath and Body Works candles
• clean laundry
• coffee!
• airports
• the air in the Sierras
• Paul Mitchell tea tree shampoo
• flowers
• ocean air
• herbal tea
• banana bread
• hand sanitizer
• Cinnabons

• Start doing yoga again
• Go on one hiking/outdoor UCSC recreation trip
• Make some new friends
• Go see Local Natives at The Catalyst in April
• Work on study habits and do well in school
• Eat healthier, drink more water
• Go outside more
• Cut back on Internet browsing
• Get a summer job
• Try to become a better girlfriend

• turquoise japanese scroll
• coffee thermos
• flower lights
• baksheesh sticker
• stacks and stacks of books
• hard rock cafe glass full of sand from maui
• green paint-stained work gloves from peru
• dream catcher
• death cab for cutie poster
• peru postcards/tickets/pictures/magazine clippings
• collection of national geographic magazines
• yoga matt
• little elephant candle
• orange and pink peruvian mobile
• violin
• sea shells
• beat up converse

• Leather jacket
• ✔ Sunglasses
• ✔ Work pants, like these: http://www.ae.com/aerie/browse/product.j...
• ✔ Hiking boots
• ✔ Windbreaker
• ✔ Hair band/scarf/wrap
• ✔ Lots of solid t-shirts, long-sleeved shirts, etc. Think American Apparel.
• ✔ Purple Columbia fleece
• Gladiator sandals
• ✔ TOMS
• ✔ Guatemalan hair ties
• ✔ Glacier's Edge waterbottle
• ✔ Converse
• ✔ Athletic black shorts
• Ecote Beaded Pouch
• ✔ Yoga pants
• Scarf
• ✔ Swimsuit
• ✔ Renewed passport
• ✔ Little hair clips

"Smile, breathe, and go slowly." Thich Nhat Hanh A brief guide

• less TV, more reading
• less shopping, more outdoors
• less clutter, more space
• less rush, more slowness
• less consuming, more creating
• less junk, more real food
• less busywork, more impact
• less driving, more walking
• less noise, more solitude
• less focus on the future, more on the present
• less work, more play
• less worry, more smiles
• breathe

• ✔ UC Santa Cruz
• UC Davis
• ✔ UC Merced
• ✔ Cal Poly
• San Francisco State
• ✔ Humbodlt
• ✔ Monterey Bay State
• Sonoma State
• USF
• University of Washington

Girl

• Aria
• Zooey or Zoe
• Charlotte
• Gabriella
• Isabelle
• Lena
• Lilah
• Norah
• Olivia
• Schuyler
• Amelia

Boy

• Caleb
• Ezra
• Jonah

• Eat lobster (completed: 11/21/10)
• Jump off of a cliff into water
• Read for an entire day
• Volunteer abroad (completed: 6/29/11-7/13/11)
• Go to some sort of music festival
• Dance in the rain
• Backpack through Europe
• Learn sign-language
• Go to Times Square at New Years
• Learn to play the guitar
• Adopt an animal from a shelter
• Get a meaningful tattoo
• Date a British guy
• Fall deeply in love
• Become passionate about a cause
• Go on a whale watching expedition
• Join the Peace Corps
• Write a book
• Live by the sea
• Stargaze all night long