What's the coolest thing you've done? AW it here

apricot239 · July 2010

Mine are kinda lame, but when I was 13 I went to Tanzania for 3 months on a mission trip and built a church. We even smuggled back a pair of earrings made from elephant tusks.

When I was 9 I met Fidel Castro. My godfather knows him well. Fidel is actually decent. he gave me a colorbook, crayons, and a cigar. I still have the cigar and will probably never smoke it.

I also got to ride in the Presidential helicopter with Bill an Chelsea Clinton.

jasmineh7777 · July 2010

What do you do J&K?

raynes · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Does your H know about this arrangement Katie? I wish we could do a production of Spring Awakening. I was a hooker in a production of Les Miserables once. Best. part. ever.
Posted by jasmineh7777[/QUOTE]

Ooooo, did you have any solo lines? My H knows the first half of Les Mis by heart.

Starmusica · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Mine are kinda lame, but when I was 13 I went to Tanzania for 3 months on a mission trip and built a church. We even smuggled back a pair of earrings made from elephant tusks. When I was 9 I met Fidel Castro. My godfather knows him well. Fidel is actually decent. he gave me a colorbook, crayons, and a cigar. I still have the cigar and will probably never smoke it.
Posted by apricot239[/QUOTE]

lol these are FAR from lame!

apricot239 · July 2010

Well thank you, Star! But they're kinda lame for a little kid. Looking back, I've had a lot of experiences with politicians, especially as a kid.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · July 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What's the coolest thing you've done? AW it here : lol :) I will try and PM you later. Id love to hear about where you work. I left news 2 years ago and went to law school.
Posted by Starmusica[/QUOTE]

That is awesome.

I love the news biz - but I know I won't be able to hack it forever. I have a few friends who went to law school and I would LOVE to go. Who knows :)

jasmineh7777 · July 2010

Roxy- No worries. I think it's made me into the tree-hugging socialist I've become.
I have a cousin that is stationed in Alaska and absolutely loves it. He says it is the most beautiful place he has ever been.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Mine are kinda lame, but when I was 13 I went to Tanzania for 3 months on a mission trip and built a church. We even smuggled back a pair of earrings made from elephant tusks. When I was 9 I met Fidel Castro. My godfather knows him well. Fidel is actually decent. he gave me a colorbook, crayons, and a cigar. I still have the cigar and will probably never smoke it. I also got to ride in the Presidential helicopter with Bill an Chelsea Clinton.
Posted by apricot239[/QUOTE]

Yeah uh, those are not lame.

And I love the Clintons! Lol... I mean, I'm kinda hot and cold on Hillary but really I think Bill is the shiit.

jasmineh7777 · July 2010

Nope. No solo lines, just group debauchery.

Saxy- Thank you. He is serously the most amazing person I know, and he's only 5 years old.

Starmusica · July 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What's the coolest thing you've done? AW it here : That is awesome. I love the news biz - but I know I won't be able to hack it forever. I have a few friends who went to law school and I would LOVE to go. Who knows :)
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]

I produced at a tv station for 3 years and got sick of the low pay and long hours. I miss it though. but I LOVE law school.

jasmineh7777 · July 2010

Well, I'm off, but my goodness, we have one impressive group of ladies here!

JBs_Bride · July 2010

Only even remotely interesting thing I did was interning at a UN specialized agency in college.

[Deleted User] · July 2010

Hmm. I have a few. I can't think of any others, I don't realy do much.

I spent 2 weeks in a small village in Ecuador rebuilding a school bathroom and a new greenhouse, then went on hikes through the amazon.

I gave the opening speech for Carl Haaisen at my college's Presidential Lecture in front of some 3,000 people.

I wrote my first book at 15 and published it at 18, second one at 19.

ETA--you ladies are friggin amazing.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · July 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What's the coolest thing you've done? AW it here : I produced at a tv station for 3 years and got sick of the low pay and long hours. I miss it though. but I LOVE law school.
Posted by Starmusica[/QUOTE]

Yeah the pay is pretty maddening, but I got lucky with my working hours - I work 9-5, M-F. Pretty much unheard of especially in broadcasting.

526SadieSadie · July 2010

Parasailing in Newport during the Jazz Festival

Visiting the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rome (well, every bit of my trips to Italy were amazing, but this church is decorated with the bones of the Capuchin monks, google it, it's pretty freaking wild)

Performing all alone on the largest procenium stage in New England (at the time it was the largest, it might not still be)

catemeg · July 2010

I hiked for two days on a remote part of the Great Wall of China, and slept overnight in a tower.

I rode horseback over the mountains of Sichuan, China to a Buddhist monestary and had lunch with the monks, which they cooked in big pots over a fire.

I went canyoneering in Costa Rica - repelling down waterfalls over 200 feet tall by lowering myself down a rope.

I've snorkeled with dolphins and turtles in Mexico.

apricot239 · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Hmm. I have a few. I can't think of any others, I don't realy do much. I spent 2 weeks in a small village in Ecuador rebuilding a school bathroom and a new greenhouse, then went on hikes through the amazon. I gave the opening speech for Carl Haaisen at my college's Presidential Lecture in front of some 3,000 people. I wrote my first book at 15 and published it at 18, second one at 19. ETA--you ladies are friggin amazing.
Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]

What are the titles of your book? And whats the process like to get a book published?

saschaduran · July 2010

I ditched the tour of the pyramids in Egypt to be given an "illegal" tour of the back parts by a young Bedouin guy who then brought me and my daughter back into the Bedouin village surrounding the pyramids to his house where we had tea with his father and his mother cooked us dinner.

I went to a polo match in Abu Dhabi, then to an after-party where the Crown Prince was along with a bunch of Egyptian belly dancers.

I went on tour with Depeche Mode for their Chicago, Phoenix and LA shows.

I had a baby in high school but still graduated third in my class and went to University of Michigan while being a full time mom at the same time.

My daughter and I stayed in a cave-like villa in Santorini where we adopted a cat during our trip who would howl outside our door every morning and come inside and sleep with us for hours. And we would sleep with our door open.

kristen8040 · July 2010

I'm unfortunately not much of a traveler

But I've done a few triathlons, and here's a pic from my half mary in April (looking like a fool might I add lol)

dmiller9274 · July 2010

My most recent coolest thing...on Monday, FI and I opened 3 college funds for our future children. It will be at least a year from now until we try to have children, but as of Monday they will have monthly contributions towards their futures.

It makes me happy to think that they have a jump start, and aren't even here yet lol

playtntsbpg30 · July 2010

You ladies are amazing! and that is awesome that you all got to experience so much one way or another.

The only thing that I find interesting is when I was in High-school I was able to leg press a weight of 210lbs. and not be able to even do 20-30lbs bench press with my arms. I had no upper strength whatsoever. Now my legs aren't as strong anymore neither.

Other then that I got nothing.

thesuninherhead · July 2010

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[QUOTE]This is an uber dork one but I presented one of my archaeological reports at an annual BIG conference and afterwards I had a bunch of people come up to say how great of a job I did and how ground breaking the work was. Many were professors I had or people I had worked with but there were a few whose names I remembered but couldn't figure out why...Yeah, they were the ones who wrote the archaeology textbooks and case studies I'd be reading all year! OMG.
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]
 Haha, I was going to say something similar. The international conferences I've presented in have been fairly awesome.I've also done a lot of travel of late, eaten lots of crazy things and had many an amazing time doing so. Wedding related, Nick and I were (or are, as the issue is current) in one of the biggest wedding mags over here. That was somewhat exciting. Oh, and the PhD. When that is done, I'm going to think that's pretty awesome, tool

jasmineh7777 · July 2010

Sascha, will you adopt me? :P

thesuninherhead · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Mine are kinda lame, but when I was 13 I went to Tanzania for 3 months on a mission trip and built a church. We even smuggled back a pair of earrings made from elephant tusks. When I was 9 I met Fidel Castro. My godfather knows him well. Fidel is actually decent. he gave me a colorbook, crayons, and a cigar. I still have the cigar and will probably never smoke it. I also got to ride in the Presidential helicopter with Bill an Chelsea Clinton.
Posted by apricot239[/QUOTE] My brother went to Tanzania two years ago and did the same thing! Although actually, I think it was a school that he helped build, but very similar. meeting Fidel Castro and going in the presidential helicopter are rather awesome!

Knittibell · July 2010

There are some seriously amazing women here!

SCBojangles1138 · July 2010

You ladies have reminded me of some of the cool things I've done - Its made me grateful so...thanks! Here's some of the ones I was thinking of and the ones I've been reminded of:

1) I went on a trip to Mexico. Before going, my group visited 2 families of legal immigrant workers. In Mexico, we visited their families. The one family lived 3 hours from any town and only got running water once a week. They cooked us an amazing dinner despite never meeting us before, not knowing a lick of English. It was so sweet and so heart wrenching all at the same time.

2) On that same trip I toured the Corellejo Tequila plant in back woods Mexico.

3) I've covered an agricultural event at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.

4) I've signed for the National FFA Chorus at our national convention in front of 50,000 people and the tv audience.

5) I've eaten jerk chicken at a whole in the wall restaurant/auto mechanic in Kingston Jamaica

6) I've helped clean the PA state vault - we had to be locked in compartments that looked like jail cells while we worked.

[Deleted User] · July 2010

This thread makes me feel like a loser.

To be honest, I think the most amazing thing I've done is raise Ben. His 'father' left the picture when I was 3 months pregnant and we were a two man show for the first 3 years of his life. It was hard as hell, but it made me so much stronger. He's such a cool little guy and he makes me very proud to be his mom.

I also went to Greece. That was awesome.

And I went skydiving in college.

SCBojangles1138 · July 2010

Cew, I think raising your son is not just cool but also something that deserves a lot of respect (and you've got mine).

Besides, I'm waaaay to chicken to go skydiving.

flyjawn · July 2010

i used to live on a tiny indigenous island just south of papua new guinea where i was a community development worker. i speak a language that only 20,000 people in the world speak.

i went to east timor during the height of the conflict - scary but amazing.

i gave birth to both my children in my home, with no drugs. by far the most amazing thing i've ever ever ever done.

[Deleted User] · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Cew, I think raising your son is not just cool but also something that deserves a lot of respect (and you've got mine). :) Besides, I'm waaaay to chicken to go skydiving.
Posted by SCBojangles1138[/QUOTE]

Awww. Thanks. This made my day. :)

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