what extracurricular goals are you pursuing?

[Lil BK]

What extracurricular goals (outside of mainstream house, spouse, promotion, kids, ect) are you pursuing and what steps are you taking to get there?

Examples:
I want to move up a level in dance so I'm attending as many classes as I can.
I eventually want to persue an art degree so I'm taking a couple of fun classes at the local JC.
I'd like to sell my art so I'm working on building a website.
I've been publishing a zine on creativity, celebration and enjoying life so I spend a lot of time working on and promoting that.

I also eventually want to become a Master Gardener, write a book, and someday teach some sort of excercise class.

[dear confused]

I want to be in a Toronto Indie Rock band.
So I am taking one on one guitar lessons from a guitar teacher.
I really love music. I want to play music and not just listen to music.
I am a complete beginner so I feel so slow. Like its almost too late for me to try. People my age are already where I want to be now. I guess that negativity is part of my QLC. I am WAY too HARSH on myself.

I also went to photography school so I need to develop that career as well. Photography is perfect for me. I love it and I am good at it. I want to apprentice but its hard to find a company for an internship. Maybe its time I start a business already.

[hoodie]

I want to make a budget I can stick to and still do some spring clothing shopping.
I want to master the canter at horseback riding lessons.
I want to learn how to grill the perfect steak and perfect ribs. The recipes for both are in my family somewhere, I just need to get the techniques down.
I want to have at least one of my students of 75 miss me enough to come back and say hello next year.

[hajime]

I want to...
- get back into playing piano & improve my skills.
- start dancing again, choose one form of dance & become really good at it. (belly dance? tango?)
- start my own business selling laptop bags (reminder: learn how to sew :p ).
- cook more & try new recipes.
- read & write more. take a screenwriting course.
- run my own multiplayer text RPG (tried to program a figure skating one a while back.. never got off the ground).
- improve my knowledge of history & politics.
- start exercising again (goes w/ the whole eating well thing.. right now I can't exercise 'cuz I'm malnourished :neutral: ), figure skate & try gymnastics (or parkour)
- learn arabic!
- get into photography! my fav visual art form...
- listen to more music & learn more about it (indie, classical, opera)
- ... and lastly, have more fun :) I need to spend more time outdoors and less time inside my head...

[stonemonkey]

I'm in intense training to become the world's greatest streetfighter.

Seriously, I don't have anything extra-curricular, and I think that's part of what's wrong with me.

[funky flamingo]

I want to be in a Toronto Indie Rock band.
So I am taking one on one guitar lessons from a guitar teacher.
I really love music. I want to play music and not just listen to music.


I'll be a groupie. :)

I want to learn how to bellydance, do yoga, and take piano lessons.

So now I just have to figure out how to pay for all of this...

[biodork]

I really want to learn sign language. My county has adult education classes starting again in May, so I'm probably going to sign up (and put it on my CC :rolleyes: )

[capella]

I want to have at least one of my students of 75 miss me enough to come back and say hello next year.

Boy I hear you! I've got 130 7th graders and being that I'm winning the "meanest teacher of the year" award, according to them, I hope some of them smile at me next year. I've heard it's the ones who give you the hardest time who come by to bother you the next year.

[ce607]

I want to have at least one of my students of 75 miss me enough to come back and say hello next year.

A goal I understand :D

The main goal would be to HAVE something extracurricular in my life. When I have some more time, I'd like to be able to run a couple of miles, play the piano better, develop some new recipes, cultivate the garden in my backyard, and play more tennis. Oh, and get pregnant.

[capella]

-write more creative stories (gotta make myself, I'll do anything to avoid sitting down to do it)
-have enough energy to cook dinner more often
-read more modern day lit and stop being such a brit lit snob
-meet more people
-understand conservatives because I just don't get them
-meditate more often
-overall get more interests outside of work and home that don't break the bank!

[shimmer728]

I also want to be able to write more for fun......and no, posts on this message board don't count. :p

[inuts]

I am an avid runner and road racer (seriously competitive), and maybe I'll compete again this year!

I am also a writer.

And I love heli-skiing (and normal skiing, of course)!

And I'm an actor on television (occasionally) :p

[dazed]

good thread

when i have time,i would like to do a lot of things:
- take more vacations (give myself downtime)
- learn to cook more variety of meals
- generally just learn more about a number of topics not related to career

[cornflakegirl]

hmm, i guess making an identation in my ass while sitting on the computer is not what you are looking for. so here is my list, of mostly things that i may do/like to/& do do.

-yoga, need to go more, but i lack the funds & the motivation
-may join a rowing or biking group with my mom
-i want to take a belly dance class, i keep missing the registration deadline
-i do a fair amount of reading, usually nutrition, midwifery & the occasional work of fiction.
-knitting
-cooking & trying out new recipes. i'd love to take a vegetarian cooking class
-i wish i did more outdoor activities - hiking, camping etc. i have all the equipment from previous stints. my cats did pee on my sleeping bag so there's that excuse.
-i'd love to take a rock climbing class
-become fluent in spanish

hmm, now i recall looking into some of these things when i moved. maybe, i need to take one thing off my "i want to list" & frigging do it already.

[wordsmith]

-I write a lot for myself (different than the writing I do for work)
-I'd like to be an another workshop/salon type thing where you meet up and get feedback on your writing, but I don't live in a place where they have those sorts of things anymore, so that will have to wait (and doing it online isn't the same)
-I read a ton
-I'd like to get back into camping, I used to really like it, but haven't had the free time to do it in years.
-I want my sister to teach me how to crochet
-I'd like to find a choir again, but, much like the writing workshop, ain't happening in my current locale. I really miss singing with a decent choir.
-I've been itching to get a piano, but I'd have to get a hell of a deal...like my piano growing up, which was given to me by a church when they got a new one. I miss playing.

[Deadend]

Well my attitude right now is I don't care about accomplishing anything other than my freedom through graduation... but...



-Pick up guitar again and get better at it.
-Re-join the rowing club and train for the 7 day trip in augest through algonquin park in northern ontario (it's going to be great...)
-Learn to play drums
-Get fluent in french, I know so much of it already
-Get more travelled

[Bugsey34]

I already volunteer once a week with kids which is one that I really wanted to get into but I also want to:

-find a cheap way to take cool classes (art, lit) for fun. Who ever thought I would be saying that?

-join a soccer club or some team now that the weather is nice!

[wordsmith]

Classes for fun are awesome. Back when I had free time, I audited some community college classes just for something interesting to do, and didn't have to sweat anything, since I wasn't doing it for a grade. I took a film class that was really cool, fun, and interesting. Now my schedule's too weird to do stuff like that, unfortunately, so I'm glad I did it when I had the chance.

[bostongirl]

I'm always trying to do stuff... sometimes too much, but you've only got one life! Right now, I'm kind of low on them since I'm living in CT, but once I move into the city (in a month or two)...
- find a good French conversation group (I'm realizing how much I've lost w/o anyone to speak with)
- transfer my Junior League membership to the NYC league so I can volunteer again
- take some drawing classes (like technical) as a small step in eventually moving towards pursuing my dream career as an interior designer...
- actually learn to play ice hockey (I played on a very awful intranural team in college, and even that was fun!)

I think that will keep me more than busy!
-Margaret

[spokes]

- hockey
- mountain biking
- shopping
- underwater welding
- collecting scented soaps
- slo-pitch
- beach volleyball

[Alexsy]

-write more creative stories (gotta make myself, I'll do anything to avoid sitting down to do it)

Capella -- i know totally where you're coming from on that one. writing is very, very painful work. but worth it in the end! keep on it! if you ever write anything you want to have read, i'd be happy to take a look ...

anyway, here's my list ...

1. continue learning blues guitar / music theory
2. continue writing non-sucky original material -- and get it played live
3. begin running again (and get into better physical condition anyway)
4. to start cooking for myself, as opposed to ... um .. eating out a lot ... toooooo much ...

[capella]

[QUOTE=Alexsy] if you ever write anything you want to have read, i'd be happy to take a look ...QUOTE]

heh heh, victims :evil: