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Big Plans

Describe Yer Big Plans here:


  • Go to Australia and work there
  • Travel onwards... everywhere!
  • Learn about the world and it's people
  • Stay alive no matter what
  • Go to college, become a scientist
  • Save the world
  • Start a cob-castle type thing and live with friends
  • Conquer my fear of falling

--Eireann


  • become an insanely well-known journalist
  • start acting
  • fall wildly in love with my ezra and marry him in my late twenties
  • have children
  • buy a boring home and redecorate it to fit my ever-changing moods
  • learn to cook gourmet meals
  • adopt naomi
  • go to new york
  • go to paris by myself and fall in love several times a night with various strangers i see in small boutiques shopping for expensive knick-knacks

--Ali


  • Move out. Soon. Within... oh... say 18 months, to give myself more time than I want.
  • Enjoy my life here.
  • Survive.

--marina


  • get a part time job in eugene & keep it for at least a year, & find a place to stay while i am in eugene for my job
  • just generally make as much money as possible so i have a little flexibility when i come to moving out/travelling
  • no more inhibitions
  • write some really killer songs
  • get a darkroom
  • stop worrying so much aboot definitions
  • get a punching bag! rah!
  • go on a big roadtrip with ms Lola in my 18th year
  • fall in love (this time with someone with whom the feeling is mutual)

--kat


i shall...

  • learn tai chi ch'uan
  • learn chinese and or more japanese
  • visit somebody. anybody. (well, not anybody.. but-- somehow convince my mother to let me)
  • learn more about colleges i may want to go to and figure out when i might go and what i should do to get there
  • volunteer
  • find a parttime job that makes me happy
  • learn how to bake more breads
  • bake yummy things for people this winter
  • get off my arse and write and send tapes to people
  • play jazz again (i really really must)
  • study more spanish.

love, Mari


The Large Plans of a Franny.

  • Visit someone in some neat far away state
  • finnish my zine and be happy with it
  • write letters until my hand falls off
  • be in a poetry slam
  • learn to play harp
  • let go of things
  • publish writing
  • be a breakfast cook for the heck of it
  • learn to sew without patterns
  • make people see how special they are
  • come up with mor big wild plans

i want to actually produce a 'zine. i want to make people laugh and cry and shake and breathe and cheer and smile through my writing. i want to play guitar like crazy. i want to batik my own sarong. i want to learn silk-screen printing. i want to get out to california somehow this year and see some of the campers i miss very dearly and also see campers i knew but didn't really get to know very well. i want to make a cage for my guinea piggies i will get some day. i want to fall in love with the world and shed all the threads of cynicism left in my heart. -eira


Big Plans

  • Go home. by the time i get there it will have taken me 10 months and 14 countries.
  • Earn enough money to pay back any debts and do next great adventure
  • bike more. everywhere i can.
  • Travel as soon as my boots dry out, the money comes through, and emotions surface
  • make a kick-ass scrape book of the last year.
  • honor who i am
  • Be more loud, dykish, read more poetry, dance more, lie in the sun, plant trees, paint fences...

-Dawn


Ooo, I have lots of those. Let's see.

  • graduate from my correspondence-school
  • spend more time with my friends (!!)
  • become a postie and travel a lot
  • get a B.A. in biology
  • get a P.h.d. in a specialized field of the above
  • intern with marine-labs
  • learn how to do a hand-stand
  • adopt an ex-racing greyhound
  • travel with a friend all over the place
  • live in nifty places
  • fall-in-like with one of those male creatures
  • overcome my fear of deep water
  • and more up-coming, survive until my next birthday AND
  • try not to freak out about PSATs

And, you know...more things... Landis


I have BIG PLANS. This is the perfect page because yesterday I realized what I'm going to do with the next few years of my life! It all started on the way home from work: I was having a little conversation with myself outloud (it happens sometimes when I'm really tired or confused) about how unimaginably stupid it is for people to try to decide what they're going to do with the rest of their lives when they're 17 or 18. I realized that when you're younger, sooo many people say "Reach for the stars! You can do anything you put your mind to! Follow your dreams! Don't let anyone stop you!" Yeah. But when you get to college age or thereabouts, suddenly they change their tune quite drastically, then then it's "Do you have any idea how hard it is to make a living doing that? Why don't you do something more practical? You could never support yourself, let alone a family, if you became a writer/actor/poet/drifter/dancer/singer/etc.etc. Do you realize all the weirdos in that business?" Uh huh. Ironic isn't it? So I decided that I need to do something with my life, because I'm sick of sitting at home waiting for camp to come, and I'm sick of my job, and I want to do what I really want to do! So. This was just a very roundabout way of telling you my Big Plans:

  • Take a class or two at the local college this fall in either creative writing or theatre.
  • Quit my job
  • Find a job I LIKE
  • Ok...BIG PLAN: In a couple of years (like when I'm a bit more emotionally mature than I am now...say 19) move out, go to a big city (New York, Portland, somewhere-else-cool), and co-rent an apartment with a few loyal friends. We can all work at hopefully interesting and fufilling jobs, support each other through our hard times, go to the theatre, meet incredible people, dance, go to parties, and come home from our jobs at night to make dinner together, feed our cats, and talk. That's what I'm going to be doing. Don't give me any if's or but's. I'm doing it. What about you?

~Becky~

  • i'll be right there with you, going to the theater, dancing, partying, making dinner, feeding the cat (FluffFluff Maggoo)

did you read that thingamabob i posted on livejournal once? the one about living in berkeley with people...? well yeah. that's my BigPlan too, becky.

--RoyaBoya

  • Count me in. San Francisco could be a fun place to consider, although rent is probably very nasty there. But with several people in a house/apartment, we could probably manage higher rents. Also, little dogs can be good things. But I'm coming with you. --Kathleen

  • finish the two skirts i'm making
  • get my permit
  • amaze someone and have them fall madly in love with me
  • survive till my 17th birthday
  • thrive till my 17th birthday
  • spend the next 2 months traveling
  • prevent my mother from having a nervous breakdown
  • make a movie at marina's house
  • send packages to every person i know
  • own a small country
  • send a poem to the vast majority of publications in Poet's Market

--RoyaBoya


  • Find a job I like
  • Learn to play that damned harmonica
  • Figure out how to fly (just flapping my arms really doesn't do the trick)
  • Improve my jazz skills
  • Make time to write
  • Bake bread every week
  • Conquer Europe
  • Stay patient
  • Learn to draw
  • Fall in love again
  • Fall in requited love again
  • Busk
  • Speak
  • Live with my friends

--Mitchell


  • Write a book of poetry
  • Make Marina eat one of my wonderful cucumber peanut butter cream cheese sandwiches
  • Go on a road trip
  • Become president
  • Cut my hair...eep!
  • Learn to fly

Fiona would like to:

  • Spend more time with Paprika, and campers in general
  • learn to play violin (I have one! Or will have one VERYVERY soon!)
  • write more letters
  • nail my stupid doubles

--Fiona

  • well guess what, Ona! You're spending 7 (almost) consectutive days with me starting on Thursday! Wheee!!! --Ali
    • nail? don't you mean mail? oh well if they really are stupid (which i doubt) maybe you do want to nail them *teehee* -Franny the nit-picker despite my teasing I love you girlie:)
      • No, I mean nail. I'm talking skating here. --Fiona

Wind's Plans

  • Avoid falling into love, at least until July
  • Finish the interminable terrible school
  • Never go back! Well maybe
  • Get back into gymnastics
  • Learn to fight
  • Weigh less, Eat more
  • Travail

\plans

  • Get home in one piece. Leave home in one piece
  • Arrive at my job in England all right.
  • learn everything i can about art and history of Europe.
  • stay in contact with everyone back here (whoie, i may hve e-mail!)

its kinda scary that my life is SO focused the next few months. It also feels strange because i used to have goals like reading certain books, or planning something else small. Now its like move to another country and live there and work there -Dawn


All this is happening within a years time..

Move in with one of my best friends ever of all time, Krista in Portland. Go to community college there for a year and then HOPEFULLY get in to Lewis and Clark to major in theater and minor in music.

Do more theater stuff.

Perform (And HOPEFULLY get a lead and prove to everyone and myself that I can play a lead role) in Into The Woods this Winter.

Do LOTS of band stuff. I only have another year with them. I want to play as many gigs and improve my skills as a performer and a musician as much as possible.

Put out a CD with my band.

Go to New York.

Go to England.

Go to Texas.

Basically go see everyone.

Learn to drive.

Spend this next school year at Foothills college before transferring to Portland CC for my second/final community college year..

I've never had so many big things happening in the span of one year.

I'm horribly scared.

Zen


Well I wanna get into a Rock band some time soon, and then I wanna get really good and make many many albums and then live with my perfect wife in our perfect house with our 16 perfect children *grins* and our three Vans and a hellicopter! don't ask me why a Hellicopter, I just though that up...

Seriously I wanna get in a band, not sure about the rest of what I sayed though... oh! good idea, survive! -NickV


Survive. -Dawn


I want to get some more sisters. I want to survive my classes in college. I want to make some more nerdy friends and get more brothers. Oh, and find my matches to my socks. And plant my garden.. (I've been procrastinating like crazy) And learn how to hit a ball in tennis over the net. :) And buckle down on my violin practicing. (grinnies) -Mari


I have plans to rule the entire planet by myself. Anyone else who has similar plans, please tell me your name and address, and maybe we can get together and.... talk

  • Ruling a planet is one of my long term goals also. If you can figure out my phone #, call me.

Marry Conan O'Brien....a rather good plan I think -Gennie


World conquest. Duh!

     ~MingTorTheMightyAndMagnanimous

Is anyone else interested in bumming around Europe touring old castles (and other things...) and taking lots of pictures and stuff? Even theoretically? :) I am... Yes, I am obsessed...

 - Emma

I'm going to become a vertuoso violinist and tour the world! I'm going to be one of those people who's comfortably rich but is busy all the time! And I'm going to buy a house in some nice place in the country or somewhere rural and lovely like that and vacation when I get tired of the on-the-go lifestyle. Yehaw. Erin


My big plans are, in more or less chronological order:

  • visit Robyn
  • Save money and plan for a CobCastle.
  • visit Robyn
  • Start a Wireless ISP in Corvallis and expand to other areas.
  • visit Robyn
  • Possibly (un)wire the Gulf and San Juan Islands, giving islanders internet access and try to get the BC Ferries pay for some of the installation so they can put internet access on their ferries.
  • visit Robyn

(Ari, -6th of Summer)


here's a couple plans i have:

~sew a green sequined iridescent tank top...learn how to sew first, possibly ~travel travel travel!! but this is very complicated so i won't say where right now :) ~buy the new eminem CD ~buy a new guitar ~eat an avocado sandwich ~call my friend as soon as i get offline

i realize that these aren't incredibly impressive but they make me happy so :P

love jenny


I'm having fun being unproductive for a week before I dance intensively (six-seven hours a day) for two months straight at various schools and camps. I want to finish drawing all sorts of maps of my imaginary island and castle and I want to improve my dancing, natch, because I want to apprentice to a company next year. And in the REALLY far future, I will become rich somehow and buy my own little island that is as much like the imaginary island I'm mapping as possible. Then I will build a castle as much like my imaginary castle as possible, and I will live there with lots of cats. You are all welcome to buy your own little islands and build your own structures, and then we can sail to each other's islands and visit. :) Emma


My question is this: Why do you have to divide them into Big Plans and Less Important Plans? Anyway, my Plans are as such:

 *Go to model horse shows and kick butt with my babies
 *Start getting people to -buy- my baby ponies
 *Today, get Rick to call me or write me like he's supposed to, and later,
live with him. Hah.
 *Teach more piano lessons, and start taking them myself, that and harp
 *Build a Cob Castle. Much fun!
 *Play....in streams, with friends, with dogs, with everything and
everywhere!

Boy, I could go on forever. I guess I can't divide my dreams.


       
         Motto for Today: 
         Just Trying To Survive. 
      Breathing, sleeping, eating, recycling
     carbon and hydrogen, creating glucose,
     releasing carbon dioxide, all day long. One
     must beat heart 72 times a minute, oxygenate
     blood 12 to 14 times, create 140000 red blood
     cells, it makes for a pretty busy darn
     minute. 
        Trying not to be hit by buses, trains,
     bicycles, cars, trucks, semies, goat carts, and
     avoid wild Austrians on rampage with sharp
     slabs of Swiss Chocolate  in my free time. 
     Don't play with matches, sharp knives,
     radioactive material, dichlorodiphenyl
     trichloroethane, yadda yadda yadda. 
                         Same old same old. 
     -Dawn Smith 
      

I have so many plan's! I'm going to New York City and Maine in June! And I'm going to do a theatre internship, and take college theatre classes, and audition for RCT company, and get contacts and go to camp and start an acting group and cope with my parents's spliting up. I'm sure more stuff will come up along the way too! ~ Emily


Plans:

  • Take a gymnastics class this summer to learn to do handsstands and fall into a back-bend, etc.
  • Take a first aid/cpr class
  • Do all the stuff it takes to get me and my bicycle to Austrailia after camp, in September (including doing my knee exercises so I can happily ride my bike, and applying for a working holiday visa so I can stay as long as I want, and accepting information and contacts from anyone who offers it.)
  • Become a millionaire philanthropist.
 ~/Reanna/

Wow. What a question for me. I "graduate" from the local homeschool group in May. Take the SAT in June, and then I hope to travel to Canada. My eighteenth birthday is in July, I'm going to take a month to evaluate myself, my priorities, figure out in detail what I'm doing, work... Then I'll be in Oregon for a month for camp etcetera (mid August - mid September)... After that: wow. I might be doing a lot of travel, including a lengthy stay in Seattle that might turn into a move. I want to take lots of photographs, get a laptop and do freelance writing and keep a travel-log and all kinds of other things on boingyboingy.com. I plan to take workshops and classes all over the place. I'll be applying to several college. Then next year, it's the big college thing. Which, no, I'm not doing because I think I should... I'm doing it because I want to. Anyway. Wow, big plans. (~summer)


My big all time dream is to go to Asia and travel around and live in Buddhist monastaries and enjoy pure bliss when reading the Dharma and meditating. I want to travel all through Japan, India, Nepal, TIBET, China, Mongolia and then travel trough Russia by train and then fly back to the US and then just travel around the country living the life of a Dharma Bum.

My smaller dreams are..... going to collage, getting my poetry published, making a spoken-words album (with controbutions of words and music from campers), travel around the country, learn to control my temper by practicing the Dharma, letting life run along while I run beside it.

Stuee.


My plans now are... learn as many different silly weird handcrafts (such as embroidery, lace, knitting, fingerweaving, tatting, etc) as possible and then... well.... then let tomorrow happen. - Christy


what am I doing? I often ask myself that, but usually it is three in the morning and I am not too coherent. It is three in the morning...what am I going to do...short term: go to sleep, wake up, attempt to move my body to another room. other then that. travel a bit, read a lot of books that interest me, find what job I would like to have next. I think I want to be a personal assistant, a bartender, or an elf at macy's. (I have a sick sense of fun)I think I want to go to harvard, just for the fun of it. other plans. I want to start an internet radio show with nicholas. I want to creat a zine online, and on paper....I want to be a bad-ass reporter for NPR, or PRI. I want to write and make a movie with my brother. I want to sing like billie holiday, and be loved by my audience. I want to marry some rather nice individual who finds my eccentric behavior endearing, have a few kids, way too many pets. I would like to write a few books, mostly children's books. Paint some pictures. I want to become a rather good photographer. I would like to be a frequent guest on Conan O'Brian. I would like to pretend when I am old, that I am senile around my children and act perfectly normal around my grandchildren. I will do some of these things, not all, but I plan to do some of it. -gennie

WhereYouAtNow?


let's see....

I want to get a five minute hand-stand, I want to be able to do a double flip with a half twist, I go to the National Circus School(of Canada),I want to perform in Cirque Du Soleil, I want to create a really cool circus with my friend katie, I want to be the first ever reeeally famous circus perforemer, I want to do circus on the moon, and I want to go live on mars. none of this is all that imposable, exept maybe the bit about being famous.... -beanie


Currently my major plan is simply to convince my parents to enroll me in Clonlara. My alternatives are go back to school(ahhhhhhhh!!!!eeeeeeeek!), go to Appling Christian Academy(even worse-smaller classes,meaning teachers have more chance to snoop and pester, more and harder work), or enroll with-gasp- another homeschool program-one that supplies-gasp,again-text books and forced curricula. I will die if I can't enroll with Clonlara. -Ren


 I've never been to NBSTC, and I want to go, but my parents are very afraid
I'll get influenced to hate school (as if I needed influence). I didn't know
anyone else on here had trouble with parents forcing them to go back to
school, but my parent's are, too. My big plans are to:
     1. Pass the GED and SAT in 6 months (!!!) this is to get my parents off
my back. If I pass those tests they CAN'T MAKE ME GO BACK!!! And I could
convince them to unschool my two little brothers.
     2. Start SSS an Aritist for the Earth Group, with a band, and make a
Phoenix ASFAR group. 
     Mainly, it feels like my life will begin after I pass those tests. My
mom thinks I need a normal life, and they are very skeptical to this 'whole
unschooling thing'. But oh well, I'M GONNA DO IT! 
                                                                 -Ray
  • Hi! Welcome to, umm, camp-on-the-web! The NBTSC community! All that jazz! Good luck with your tests (and parents)! - Emma
  • And: remember to practice! Don't just go in and take the tests and expect to do your best. Get the Barron's SAT prep book and the 10 Real SATs book from the College Board and work through both of them. Do this and you can easily score over 1400. -Hans
 
 
  
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