June 22, 2011
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Day 20: 40 More Things
40 things I realized during 21 days that I still need to write about:
1. My house, special memories, how it was built…the haunted bathroom tale, limburger cheese, plumbing problems, roller skating round the basement
2. A cookbook/ recipes for Brazilian foods that also explain their lives, values, customs, and realities, and all the weird stuff that came up when I tried to cook
3. My favorite foods and why, experiences they held: “I want real milk for my 8th birthday,” breadfruit, “my first favorite is Mac and cheese and hot dogs, second is shrimp, and the third is? –well, only your first favorite from me!—Tim” Exotic food—turtle, beaver, liver, pancreas, ant…
4. Being a vegetarian—and having no morals
5. What mom and dad cooked, and how this portrayed their personalities
6. Animals I had growing up. And how they all died. And I wrote about them, staining the pages with my tears
7. Growing up in the last 80s and 90s: high bangs, the shirt tied off, and three layers of socks
8. The first boy who liked me: Jimmy. He left a frog in our yard. I was so mad I stomped all the way to his house and told him to remove it and I never wanted to see it again. I never did.
9. The process of learning Portuguese—I could make this academic—sharing funny stories of saying the wrong thing while going through the phases of learning a language
10. Favorite movies—like I did songs, with the story of why I like them. I should do favorite books as well
11. Being on the basketball team at Baptist temple
12. Racism at Golden Coral
13. Each one of my 14 forever people, a special story…or write about each: my father loves…why? My father hates…why? My father wants…why? My father always…why?
14. Connect colors with feelings/emotions and SHOW why through stories. Or emotions connected with objects…love=roses…why? Fear/happiness/loneliness/pain/anger/death/danger/safety
15. “Grandma is my Santa clause” so I never believed in another
16. My first best friend and how she told me “you’re not my best friend.”
17. “Bobby got ugly,” The horrid song I wrote about that one crush
18. My three classroom rules and tell stories about them for a piece on teaching
19. The people who have made me the maddest. The lady on the bus—speaking in English so I wouldn’t make her madder in Portuguese
20. My last will and testament—of all the things I don’t have to give…or parts of my personality…write what is truly important to me, what is priceless, what I want to pass on, what I want to say to my grandkids of good advice
21. What I am most afraid of, and when it came true
22. List ten things I will never write about, writing about them in the process
23. A family memory that everyone in the family remembers differently. Tell each person’s version
24. A regret or something that haunts me
25. The opposite of what people think: the benefits of being fired, sick, broke, stood up…
26. Use this paragraph, because I cut it out of a different paper: In the Indiana Art Museum there is a picture different from all the rest. That is why it is in the contemporary art exhibit. It is empty. An empty room with an empty hole. You think it is a gray canvas. You, being like me, then try to touch it. And reach nothing. You can reach as far as possible in every direction without getting caught by the art police, and still not feel anything. I love it. It freaks my sister out. Because it reminds us both of eternity. Of reaching and not touching the end. It tells you something of our personalities and beliefs.
27. My bucket list and the story behind each one
28. A fairy tale. My very own.
29. Continue this on why I write: I write to remember. I write to concentrate. I write to forget. I write to feel release. I write to understand. I write to sort things through. I write to explain. I write to calm down. I write to share with others. I write to connect people. I write to feel connected.
30. The life and writings of Paulo Freire. My word, I have said I would do this for YEARS.
31. It is not anti-poverty, it is pro-abundance. What makes it such a difference, and how changing our mindsets can start the ball rolling
32. Finally put together something about how I fasted Ramadan
33. A story made up entirely out of quotes
34. Lies I believed
35. 100 things to do with…paperclips, Redhots, and other things
36. How to fall in love/out of love
37. How to ruin your life
38. How to survive another country—go through my old journals and find the funny stories/misunderstandings I had
39. Nightmares and dreams: my most reaccuring nightmare is about my contacts. Sleepwalking/talking issues, remembering Anna’s dreams as my own, the ones I wrote out, something about Freud and dreams—I could analyze them, and awake vs. asleep dreams—first dreaming in Brazil
40. A list of holidays throughout the year. Have something special for each day. And make sure the dates are right because the last time I copied something off the internet, half the dates were wrong. Make sure to have things like dates special food (Coke) was invented, Birthdays of important people, food celebrated days, holidays from other countries, and so on
