Mags 101 Things to do

New location - http://magdalenaphoto.com/101/101ThingsToDoBeforeIDie.htm

1. Skydiving - Done
2. Run a Marathon  
3. Own a photography studio
4. Travel to Spain - Done
5. Get a Thai tattoo (Buddhist scripture in the middle of my back)
6. Take Jitsu / Karate / or Boxing classes
7. Get a fitness license & teach classes - Done
8. Trek in Nepal
9. Sea Kayak in New Zealand
10. Swim with dolphins
11. Travel to India - Done
12. Camp outdoors for a full week
13. Publish a photo book
14. Fly a hot air balloon
15. Meet a Padaung Woman
16. Visit a refugee camp
17. Dive in a submarine
18. Learn to play Bongos (September 08 I got Djembe bongos)
19. Quit my job and do something I actually love for a living
20. Meet Oprah
21. Learn to scuba Dive
22. Complete my 101 things to photograph list
23. Go to a huge rock concert - Done
24. Canopy (Zip line) in a rainforest in Costa Rica
25. Take dance classes
26. Design and sew my own outfit
27. Create my own website - Done
28. Create a family tree
29. Get a bartending license - Done
30. Go to a nude beach and feel absolutely fabulous about myself!
31. Run with the Bulls or join the tomatina in Spain
32. Ride an ostrich
33. Learn to ride a motorcycle
34. Be debt free
35. Fly a plane
36. Write a biography - Done
37. Go Backpacking across Europe
38. Find a four leaf clover
39. Cut off all of my hair
40. Spend three months getting into optimum shape
41. Be an extra in a film
42. Sleep out in the ocean on a boat
43. Ride a bull
44. Make a difference in someone’s life and know for sure you made a difference
45. Understand my mother
46. Learn to speak a third language
47. Do a tour across America – coast to coast (car, hike, run, swim or bike or all)
48. Go bob sledding
49. Run away for a couple of weeks and don’t tell anyone where I am
50. Stand on Kjeragbolten in Norway
51. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France
52. Hike the Grand Canyon (all the way to the bottom)
53. Learn to swim
54. Photograph a tornado or a lightning strike
55. Have a big family
56. Travel alone
57. Go back to Czechowice-Dziedzice (my birth place)
58. Meet Steve Mc Curry - Done
59. Own a house
60. Buy my mother a house
61. Win something wonderful
62. Ride a horse on the beach
63. Open an NGO
64. Go white water rafting
65. Learn to surf
66. Write a children's book
67. Go into a forth level human consciousness (Turuiya)
68. Meet The Dalai Lama
69. Adopt
70. Dream about my father
71. Swim with sharks
72. Be published in National Geographics (hey, you never know)
73. Live in another country for at least six months
74. Visit Salar De Uyuni, Bolivia and stand on salted water
75. Buy a kimono in China
76. Whale watching in Alaska
77. Wild safari in Africa
78. Heli-hiking internationally
79. Travel to at least 10 countries ( Poland , America , Spain , Mexico , India .. 5. to go)
80. See a volcano erupt - Done
81. Stop being so damn gullible! (working progress)
82. Learn to ski or snowboard
83. Ride a double decker bus in London
84. Eat to live, not live to eat
85. See my family again (in Bronów)
86. Fix my teeth - Done
87. Build my daughter a doll house (if I have a daughter *Spain *)
88. Learn primitive living skills
89. Shoot a gun (Rambo style)
90. Dress up for Halloween in a "kick ass" costume
91. Walk the Great Wall of China
92. See the Great Pyramids in Egypt
93. Learn Sign Language
94. Study Buddhism
95. Visit World Disney World
96. Learn Photoshop
97. Dog sledding in Canada
98. Touch my toes and do a split
99. When retried, read all of my favorite books, again
100. Make a video of myself and include my 101 things to do before I die
101. Die with a smile on my face :) (Hoping the 100 things above will have a check mark next to them before I get to 101)

 

In March 2008 I traveled to India and one of the cities I visited was Jaisalmer where I did a camel tour.  My camels name is Coca-coca-coca-cola :)

I had a fantastic time on the trip and it just makes me want to travel more

 

Spain was a great time! I went with my friend Liany who is fun to travel with. We went to Barcelona and Valencia. We also had tickets to Italy for one day but we missed the flight, so we stayed in Barcelona.

This was my first international trip (not including Poland to America move) so this trip just made me want to travel more. I got bit by the travel bug.

But now I want to visit places that are more exotic. Like India. I think this will be my next trip.

I purchased the painting on the right (the jazz player)

It wasn't a HUGE rock concert, but it was the best darn concert I have ever been to!

Private concert with Bon Jovi and Jon McLaughlin at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square NY. It was for Tiki Barber’s charity (The children’s miracle network). Bon Jovi sang about 5 songs and Jon sang about 2. But the face to face contact was priceless. –All thanks to my hubby’s buddy for havig this wonderful hook up.

This may be strange to have on someones top things to do in life, but with a little history it's understandable.

When I came to America (I was 10 years old) I went to a dentist for a root canal (emergency visit). To save money (since I didn’t have insurance) my parents took me to a dentist that probably was not qualified to do root canals, or any dental work in that matter. I woke up the next morning with an infection on both sides of my mouth that looked like I had two golf balls on each side of my cheek all the way up to my eyes. I went to the emergency room and after they removed couple of my teeth from each side and the infection and told me I’m lucky to be alive from the infection I decided to skip the dentist from now on. I was actually petrified of the dentist.

Of course not going to the dentist for the next 10 to 15 years and having a sweet tooth took a toll on my mouth. About 40 thousand dollars, 6 implants, bone replacements, root canals, cavity filling and other procedures that I just don’t know the name of, my smile is once again a smile. I found a dentist that I am attached to who has taken care of this mess and after a 3 year process, I now just do my 6 month check ups. So fix my teeth is done wheew!

It's called www.magdalenaphoto.com

I made it as a personal, family album website at first, but now I'm changing it into a professional website.

Hopefully this is just a begining of me becoming a professional photographer

I started writing my biography before I got married and 25 pages later (typed, single spaced) it's still going strong. I add to it when something new happens in my life or if I remember a part of my childhood that's worth remember in the future.

This biography is my own proof of life and for only me to see. I'm glad I did it -you never know what happens in life, and having a biography allows you to document your life in a non-fictional way.

On my honeymoon, my husband and I went to the Big Island (Hawaii) and there we took a helicopter tour around the Island, we did the Rainforest/volcano tour. We were lucky enough to actually see some volcano action. The helicopter went really low which was a bit scary since the volcano kept getting higher during its eruption. What a wonderful view!

My friend Ladesia told me about this program where I can learn how to teach aerobics for free as long as I teach aerobics for free for the following six months after my certification. It was a 12 month program in Harlem NY, and it was a lot of fun. You study for an hour and then you learn a routine for the next hour once a week for six months. After your six months are over, you take a test and you are a certified aerobics instructor.

I actually tough a class with real students in it! ok, so some were 80 years old, but I had a few that were in their 20's! :) And I was kicking butt! I have my own routine and everyone was actually sweating at the end. I even put some kickboxing into the routine! It was great!

I taught hi-low aerobics for six months and it was a wonderful six months! During the time I was teaching aerobics; I also worked full time and went to college full time. I had the best body ever from the workouts, and more energy than you can imagine from working and going to school and then teaching aerobics.
Once my 6 months of teaching were over and I had the opportunity to get paid for it, I chose to leave. For some strange reason, teaching aerobics at a free recreation center was more rewarding than teaching at Lucille Roberts or other gyms and getting paid for it

I took a week off from work and attending bartending classes. It was fun, but that's as far as I went with it. If the business world doesn't work out for me, I can always make some delish shots :)