Bucketlist USA

This list includes special things I want to experience or do during my stay here in America. Please regard that these points might be individual and are not on everyone’s To-do-list. Even though I might won’t be able to do everything, it will serve a pretty good overview for me and future exchange students.

HIGH SCHOOL

• (x) Attend an American High School
• (x) Make your schedule (I would take interesting classes they do not offer in your home country)
• (x) Survive the first day of school
• (x) Be able to open the locker
• (x) Join a sport team
• (x) Join a club at school
• (x) Don’t go into the wrong school room
• (x) Write the first essay
• (x) Get an A
• (x) Ride the yellow school bus
• (x) Reach High Honor Role or Honor Role
• (x) Go to the Winter ball
• (x) Go to the Homecoming game
• (x) Celebrate & dress up for the Homecoming week
• (x) Feel the High School spirit
• (x) Go to a High School football game
• (x) Go to a Lacrosse game
• ( ) Go to a High School Baseball game
• (x) Support the school teams
• (x) Get the year book of your High-School
• (x) Let all your friends sign your yearbook
• (x) Find a prom date
• (x) Go to Prom
• (x) Graduate

 

LIFE

• (x) Get the best host family in the world
• (x) Have breakfast in American Style
• (x) Make new friends from all over the world
• (x) Meet people outside from school
• (x) Meet the family o your host family
• (x) Try to teach a few people some German
• (x) Bring German traditions into the new home
• (x) Skype with your family and friends back home
• (x) Celebrate Thanksgiving
• (x) Show my family where I lived 
• (x) Speak fluent English
• (x) Understanding the football rules
• (x) Thank your host family for everything they do for you
• (x) Being able to say that you had the best time of your life
• (x) Share your experiences with your friends, family or other interested people
• (x) Celebrating my 16th birthday in the U.S
• (x) Keeping in contact with German friends
• (x) Cook a German meal for my host parents
• (x) Dream in English
• (x)Think in English

• (x) One day come back for visiting

Places 

• (x) Go shopping at Walmart
• (x) Go to Tim Hortons
• (x) Eat in a steak house
• (x) Go to the movies
• (x) Shopping at a typical American mall
• (X) Get lost at a XXL supermarket 
• (x) Eat Dunkin’ Donuts
• ( ) Eat Buffalo wings in Buffalo
• (x) Go out for Mexican food
• (x) Enjoy a typical meal for your area
• (x) Watch the Super Bowl
• (x) Don’t gain weight
• ( ) Go to a festival or concert
• (x) Trip to Cedar Point Amuse park (Ohio)

Traveling

• (x) Go on a road trip
• (x) Go to at least one National Park
• ( ) Visit LA
• ( ) Visit the Grand Canyon
• ( ) Visit San Francisco
• (x) Go on a trip in the mountains
• (x) Visit more than 5 different states
• (x) Visit more than 10 different states
• (x) Visit 15 different states
• (x) Visit New York City and walk through the streets
• (x) Visit Washington D.C (the capital)
• (x) Boston (MAS)

• Activities

• (x) Go Black Friday shopping
• ( ) Shoot a gun
• (x) Celebrate Halloween
• (x) Go trick or treating
•  (x) Go to a Haunted hayride and a Haunted house
• (x) Celebrate American Christmas
• (x) Go bowling
• (x) Go golfing
• ( ) Drive with a stretch limo
• (x) Go to an American wedding
• (x) Seeing a sunset/sunrise at an ocean
• (x) Spend a day on the beach (lake or ocean)
• ( ) Cliff diving
• (x) Go skiing
• (x) Go jet skiing
• ( ) Go surfing
• ( ) Go and play paintball
• ( ) Go Canyoning on a river
• (x) Get souvenirs and a lot of pictures which will give you memories for you entire life
• (x) Have big party with all your friends before you leave
• (x) Go to a professional American football game
• ( ) Go to a professional Basketball game
• (x) Go to a professional Baseball game
• (x) Got to a professional Hockey game
• (x) Sleep outside beneath the sky and stars