Firsts for 2010

Time to keep track of new memorable things for new year!

1. Ate Jamaican food
2. Talked to a transsexual person
3. Buried my pocketknife in an airport plant pot and found it after I got back
4. Get acupunctured
5. Cried in a medical school class - I guess ob/gyn and abortion is a sensitive topic for me?
6. Won a volleyball IM game
7. Got asked to a dance
8. Got my toe nails painted (dark red!)
9. Saw an umbilical hernia
10. Biked in Seattle
11. Played a role in a musical since 5th grade - Once Upon a Mattress
12. Got my hair curled
13. Got an apartment (rented)
14. Been in the same city as a tornado
15. Saw Avenue Q
16. Went to a piano bar
17. Had Big Apple flavored Ted Drews - yum!!
18. uh...can't think right now...
19. Made groundnut stew
20. Floated down a river on my back down to the Atlantic Ocean
21. Ate beanch/rice shakara, donut cake, coconut cake, groundnut cake, meat on a stick, kingdriver, casava with groundnut sauce, butterscotch, sorghum ice cream, barracuda, clay - Sierra Leone style
22. Went to a club in Sierra Leone
23. Rode on a poda poda by myself and navigated in Krio
24. Made a batch of plumpy nut
25. Lived for 2 months in Africa - 2 months of cold showers
26. Watched a (or several) live birth and a C-section
27. Been called "white man"
28. Visited a brewery (in Sierra Leone)
29. Been pulled over by a policeman and argued with the police
30. Learned to drive a stick
31. Ate macaroons from Bouchon Bakery, Napa Valley
32. Taste tested 10 different kinds of wines at V. Sattui
33. Ate 25 different types of chili in one night (Journey Chili Cook-Off)
34. Participated in a friend's proposal! - in fact, I was the decoy! Congrats ED and AL!
35. Be a bridesmaid