Bucket List

I have never been so excited for a Thursday in my entire life. In just a measly 3 Earth days, I will find myself on a life changing journey to The Land of The Rising Sun, also known as Japan, which in turn is also known as Japan (pronounced with a "soft J," phonetically spelled as "Hapan"). There are many reasons why I am so excited for this trip. Primarily, it's because I will have the unique experience of living on a military base teaching swim lessons to the children of service families. The other and probably more conventional reason that I'm excited is that I will undoubtedly be involved in the type of extraordinary adventures that only a true, Japanese-like environment will be able to provide.

As if it weren't enough to simply be journeying back to my place of Imperial Samurai Origin, I will also have the the uncanny luck to be accompanied by my partner in crime, Spencer Noble-san. Spencer is a great guy that I have met through the camp adventure program. We have both been progressively more and more excited as our departure date nears, and in order to ensure that our trip is as exciting, ridiculous, and action packed as it absolutely can be, we have compiled the following Bucket List for our travels.

But before I expound on our glorious list, you must be thinking to yourself, "Wait a minute, isn't a bucket list a list of things that you hope to accomplish before you die?" If that is your line of thinking, then you are absolutely correct. I have not misspoken. This is not your average To-Do List. Here is the disclaimer to my readers saying that should you have the need to reproduce this list in any capacity, you might not make it out alive. Consider yourself warned. And without any further ado, I present to you, my unfathomably worshiping readers, our Japan Bucket List.

Japan Bucket List

In order of increasing unlikelytude.

--Go to a baseball game

--Go to a sumo wrestling exhibition

--Climb Mt. Fuji

--Go canyoning

--Run around Tokyo in a ninja suit (without being apprehended by the authorities)

--Climb Mt. Fuji (Again. This time should be faster.)

--Participate in a Japanese gameshow (a televised one is heavily preferred)

--Run around Tokyo in a ninja suit (allow apprehension this time, but put up a pretty convincing fight)

--Make international news somehow (possibly by costumed harassment of the public or evading arrest)

--Battle an actual samurai, in the mist covered mountains of Yokohama (If neither samurai or mountains are presently available, start a fight in a bar owned by a Yakuza crime-boss)

--almost die somehow (this one should be relatively easy)

There you have it folks. If you ask me, it should definitely be an interesting time. I'm always looking for irresponsibly adventurous tasks to take on, so if you have any good ideas for the list, please feel free to let me know.