My Life Goals

I have many life goals. But my main 2 goals are to swim with dolphins and travel the world. Though my main goal is to travel the world. There are many places I wish to go and hope to go. My first stop would be to go to Ireland. First I would go with my family for a week or two. But then I would want to go and experience Ireland for about 6 months. What I think would really be fun is to backpack through parts of Ireland or maybe even through all of it. And I do realize how much money this would cost to do (about $10,000 to $12,000). That's why I want to start saving up all of my money. But once I get over there and decide to stay in one place I'll of course get a job. I will probably go over and stay for a few months, earn some money, then go backpacking. The next place I want to go is all over Europe. However I would probably start in the United Kingdom. I want to go to London and spend about a month just in London then go to some more big cities throughout the United Kingdom. (By the way, I wish to spend about 2 years in Europe just so you know.) Next I will probably go to Either Poland or Germany but I definately want to go to both. I just don't know which one first, though I guess it doesn't really matter. Anyway I will spend about a few weeks to a month in both Poland and Germany. I really want to go to the Holocaust Museum in Poland. It's supposed to be the biggest Holocaust Museum in the world! I also want to visit some of the concentration camps in Germany and Czech Slovakia. Although this would be REALLY sad! But I want to learn more about the victims of the Holocaust so what better way to do it than to see how they lived their lives in these horrible places. Then I want to live in Switzerland and the Netherlands for a few months. Then I want to go to Paris, France and visit the Eiffel Tower. I want to live here for about a month or less. Then I want to go down to Spain and Portugal for a month or 2. Then I want to live in Rome, Italy for a few months. Experience it like they do. Live like they do. Breathe the air they do. Then I want to backpack through the Alps even though that probably would be dangerous, I think it would be a once in a lifetime experience. Then I want to go to all the other countries in Europe and just live there for a few weeks at a time. The next place I want to go is Africa. I want to be able to help the less fortunate there in whatever way I can. Like Albert Einstein said " A life lived for others is a life worth living". And I think this is very true. Here I want to spend about 6 to 8 months traveling through Africa. Then I want to go to India and Nepal. I have no reason for wanting to go here except for wanting to see Mt Everest. And being able to climb some of it. Definately not all of it! That would take a LONG time! Next place I want to go is  Bejing, China and Hongkong, China. I've only seen it on TV but it looks absolutely beautiful and full of life. That's what I love about the city. Full of life! I also want to go to Tokyo, Japan. This place I have only seen in pictures but it looks beautiful as well. Then I want to go down to Australia and stay there for about 6 to 7 months. I want to scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef. I think this would be an amazing experience, especially for me because I absolutely love the water. Then I want to go to all the Hawaiian islands. Next I move down to South America into Argentina and Brazil. Then I'm going to go to Canada and stay there for only a few weeks. Then I'm going back down to the Caribbean as my last stop. However I want to stay here for quite some time and be able to see all the islands, like Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Here I want to be able to stay for about 7 to 8 months traveling around to the different islands but only on a boat. Oh, that reminds me. Sometime in my life I want to travel probably only half way across the world on a boat. I think this would be so fun. To be able to just stay on a boat for a while and just see nothing but the ocean and sea life beneath you. But before I do this I want to learn how to scuba dive. My friend, Kaitlyn, says it's so much fun and it's like your in a whole other world. I want to experience this before I do anything in my life like travel the world. As some of you may know, or maybe no one knows, I love the water. Any kind of water. A pool, stream, river, lake, ocean. ANYTHING that has to do with water I love! That's why I want to become a marine biologist and help some of the endangered species living in the polluted water that we all helped create. I hope that our world can help prevent making endangered species and even animals that aren't endangered, extinct. That is what I hope to accomplish when I become a marine biologist. I know I won't be able to stop all of the distruction of the waters and animals but I hope to diminish some of it.