Bucket List Museums

Hayden Planetarium

Museum of Modern Art

The Louvre

The Hermitage

The Cloisters

The Guggenheim NYC

Isabella Gardner Museum

Neue Galerie

The Whitney Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

The Museum of Sex

Musee D'Orsay

The Prado

World Museum, Liverpool

Rijksmuseum

Vatican Museums

Museum of Cairo

Victoria and Albert Museum

Acropolis Museum

Tate

Vasa Museum

Winter Palace, St. Petersberg

National Museum of Anthropology

Changes in Plans

 In 2019 I was hoping to attend the Horticultural Expo in Beijing.  That never happened, as I was too busy and also had to put my money into school.  I had later thought of going to South Africa and Australia to see friends I met in Korea.  That never happened, due to coronavirus and I was too busy with graduate school anyway.  I should finish this year, and that will be great.

I know that I can visit South Africa and Australia another time.  I do hope to meet up with two couples I know in Australia who live only an hour's drive apart from each other.  I am hopeful I can get there someday.  South Africa should also be interesting. Yet if I can't visit any of those places this year, I can always go another year or two from now.  Their summer is during my winter, so I know I have a lot of time before until I would want to travel there anyway.  I still have time to make plans.

I know that Qatar will have a Horticultural Expo in 2023, so I can try to attend that one.  Hopefully, the coronavirus will be over by then.  The stupid virus keeps mutating, so we will all have to see what happens.

I honestly don't know when I will be able to do international travel again. That is fine, I can see and do some things where I am.  I do not need a passport to have fun.

Visiting South Africa and Australia

I have decided that this winter I will visit South Africa and Australia.  I have some friends in Australia, two couples who live a half an hour's drive away from each other.  They live in Queensland.  I also have many friends in South Africa that I met while teaching English in South Korea.  I am not yet sure who I will stay with.  I would like to do those trips because I want to see these friends again.  I also would like to visit those two continents as well.  Once I visit Africa and Australia, I will have visited each continent except Antarctica.  

Coronavirus

I hate this coronavirus pandemic!  The statistics are terrible.  I am taking a two-week leave from work so that I can get away from it all and get some things done at home.

Visiting China in 2019

I would like to visit the Horticultural Expo in Beijing next year. It looks very interesting. It will take place from April 29, 2019 to October 7, 2019.  There is projected to be 16 million visitors and 100 countries will take part in it.
I am already planning on going to India next May, so I will already be in that part of the world. I can take a flight from India to Beijing.

http://www.horti-expo2019.org/2016-03/25/content_38112062.htm

Post

So, I haven't been posting lately. I have been busy working on my Master's Degree in English and a Master's Certificate in Human Rights. I have been enjoying my studies overall. I have been challenged a lot by studying Chaucer this semester (hey, that guy lived six hundred years ago).  I hope to get at least a B in that class. I worked on my degree last summer, taking one class over Summer Session I and two over Summer Session II to get things done and over with.  I got an A and two A- grades.  I have been trying to stay afloat with this semester. I ended up with one late paper for Chaucer due to my factory job I had at the time and time management.  I ended up losing a letter grade, which made me upset.
I decided that I have had enough of Facebook. I have been contemplating deleting my account.  I have already deleted my Twitter at least a year ago.  I also don't have Pinterest or Instagram.  I know that I use Facebook too much. I must spend less time there. Yesterday I found out that I was kicked out of a group I was happy to be in, all because I was being accused of harassing another member and trying to get information out of him.  It is all not true.  I feel very hurt to be accused like that. It doesn't look like I will ever be allowed in that group again. I can't let it hurt me though. I do have to stay off Facebook because it is a waste of time.  I also shouldn't be caring about what those people think about me either.
I am trying to find another job.  While going back to school I have been working various temporary factory jobs.  I haven't been telling those people I am going to school.  I was stuck on third shift all summer and into this semester. I was begging to get on first shift so that I can get a better sleeping schedule.  I also found it hard to study, with my sleeping being in bouts, rather than a good long sleep during the week. I wish that I never had to work third shift this year, but I had to take what I could get.   I have asked numerous people about a job, and nothing is working out.  I also have applied at various places and won't get an interview.  The last interview I got was last year, at an animal hospital.  The vet didn't hire me. I applied there again and she wouldn't give me a second chance either. I am so frustrated. I did go to a job fair at a factory with a staffing agency, and they gave me a position. That lasted for about a month.  At least I got to make some more money.
I am desperate to relocate.  I want to be closer to where my studies are.  I also want to look for better work. I keep getting roadblocks, because everywhere I look for a job I am told that there is nothing available, or the position is given to someone else.
I know that something is wrong. I know that my resume is terrible. I wish that I had tried harder to make things look better.  I should have never gone back to this area after leaving Korea. I should have tried to relocate as soon as possible. This is a terrible place to look for work.  Also, I should have quit letting my family tell me what to do. I should have realized that my controlling mother just wanted me around. She was willing to put up with anything from me just to keep me around. She also didn't want me to do anything that would take her away from me.

The Five Freedoms

TO SEE AND HEAR WHAT IS HERE,
INSTEAD OF WHAT SHOULD BE, WAS OR WILL BE,

TO SAY WHAT ONE FEELS AND THINKS,
INSTEAD OF WHAT ONE SHOULD,

TO FEEL WHAT ONE FEELS,
INSTEAD OF WHAT ONE OUGHT,

TO ASK FOR WHAT ONE WANTS,
INSTEAD OF ALWAYS WAITING FOR PERMISSION, 

TO TAKE RISKS IN ONE'S OWN BEHALF,
INSTEAD OF CHOOSING TO BE ONLY "SECURE"
AND NOT ROCKING THE BOAT. 

By Virginia Satir