Bucketlist

Travel

• Go on a long Polish road-trip.
• Visit Japan.
• Visit Disney World. (yeah, I know, I’m a big kid)

Accomplishment

• Publish an illustrated cookbook
• Have the Polonist become a popular digital source of knowledge about Polish food that helps & inspires people.
• Start a Youtube channel.
• Spread what I’ve learned about Polish cuisine via an online course.
• Make a free Polish Christmas Carol booklet with the texts in phonetics, so everyone can sing-along.
• Go a full year without screen-time on Sundays.

Adventure

• Spend a night in a haunted castle.
• Go plein-air painting again.
• Host a themed dinner party.
• Go in a helicopter.
• Go in a hot air balloon.

Skills & CRAFTS

• Becoming calm & comfortable in front of camera.
• Trying pottery and making my first plate.
• Make a DIY neon/marquee light.
• Return to oil-painting. Painting a portrait of my son.
• Try out techniques of my favourite artists & document the results.
• Be able to do at least one (sic!) perfect push up.
• Plant a mini-balcony garden.

FOOD

• Be able to recognise (and pick!) most popular edible wild mushrooms.
• Make my first jar of Polish pickles.
• Master the art of pierogi-making.
• Try foods I’m not eating, because I expect them to be disgusting: duck blood soup, herring in oil, jelly pig feet, tripe soup.
• Teach my son to cook.
• Learn the knife-skills, so I can chop like a pro!
• Take a bartending class.