HiThereDear

Ok, I'm on summer vacation. I tried somewhat to get a job, but I'm leaving in mid august for college anyways and I don't need to work right now. I'm bored though, so I want to do something during this next month. Give me suggestions. Think about what you would love to do if you had one month completely free.

Nisses

take a big computer-game and finish it.
Rent all the movies you've always put off watching,
take up warhammer or other miniature-warfare gaming (you'll fill the whole month with that one alone)
take up climbing, playing some sport, learning to cook in a new (or your first) cuisine or expand on one you know (italian is more than just pasta & pizza, actually, it's mostly *not* those things)
take some kind of dance course,
take up massaging (can always be fun )
Get those books you've always wanted to read
pickup some tapes or books and finally learn *insert language here*

damn, I want a whole year free, still want to do alot of stuff on that list myself

__________________
Moderation should be moderately moderated.

Slims

Road Trip! You can tour the country with a friend or two. Just go wherever you want.

Or, you can go on a nice long backpacking/climbing trip (it would be cheap). If you are near WV, you could go to the Seneca Rocks Climbing School to learn how to climb multi pitch tradional routes, but there are good schools all over the country.

go visit europe. I think a cheap ticket to England can be had for about 250 dollars round trip. You could get a student plane ticket (lets you come and go from different airports with no set departure date, or departure airport), a hostel pass, and a rail pass and travel from scotland all the way down to italy in a month. It would probably cost you less than a thousand dollars too. Even with your bar tab.

__________________
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

Peetster

Definitely a road trip. Go as far as you can in one month and be able to make it back in time.

rogue49

Road trip,
if you have the money for food, gas & lodging.

A trip across the U.S only takes 4 to 5 days.

Mondak

Road trip is a capital idea. Best thing I ever did - I never came back!

__________________
All truth passes through three stages:
First it is ridiculed
Second, it is violently opposed and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860)

HiThereDear

Ok, road trip seems to be the concensus so far. I love Road Trips, but, living in SoCal, I've been road tripping all my life - Vegas, SF, Mexico, NW, Mid-west. Plus my friends can't get away for a month, so I'm going to have to keep putting off my plan for a drive around America. Actually, I just took a road trip during winter break with a few friends from Australia, so I'm road-tripped out.
Good suggestions though, thanks! Give me more, I'll pick one out and if its something interesting I'll post updates on my progress here.

Conclamo Ludus

Road Trip

The US Music City Circuit:

Memphis
New Orleans
Austin
Kansas City
Chicago

Its a trip I'm taking in September. Can't wait!

__________________
Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul
I wouldn't mistreat you baby, for my weight in gold.
-Son House, Death Letter Blues

gibber71

See how many people you can do something for, and see how many people you can touch just by being yourself.Volunteer and help people who need help.Your life will never be the same.

HiThereDear

eh, I'm already an adult literacy tutor. I'd like to do something for myself this time. And I'll probably stick to touching just myself as well.
'Twas a nice thought though.

absorbentishe

Play some golf, get drunk, and get laid... Not necessarily in that order.

sierra2774

A nice long road trip across this beautiful country, that is what I would do.

__________________
"Every tomorrow brings new opportunities, challenges we must address...A chance to affirm all our wishes and dreams, to seek beauty and true happiness."

cdwonderful

I call shot gun!!!

bukaki22

swing them bitchess

dimbulb

volunteer!
perhaps in a thirhd world country or something like that...

WhoaitsZ

don't you remember what happened to haley joel osmond when he 'paid it forward'!??!?

(couldn't resist)

clavus

Start and finish a really insanely complicated piece of art. Use whatever medium suits you. Just make it large, or complex, or large AND complex.

or

Rent/buy/borrow potters wheel and learn to throw. Spend a few hours every day on the wheel. At the end of the month your have a lot of cool stuff AND a new skill.

__________________
Ass, gas or grass. Nobody rides for free.

Panopticon

Take up martial arts. You'll get in shape before school and you'll actually learn something that may be useful. It's isn't that expensive either. Usually something like $50-70 a month.

__________________
.:Panopticon:.

HiThereDear

Heh, I have this half-finished, huge canvas with my version of Botticelli's Birth of Venus in oil right next to me. I'll get back to it sometime, just not right now, lol.

HiThereDear

I'm planning to, but when summer is done, I go back to school in a different area and I figured I'd just join a school up there. I'm not sure what to study though, any suggestions?

itlain

Join the military. Thats what I did 2 days after summer started and before I was supposed to go out to school in the fall. 4 years later and I've met more people and done more things than I thought I would ever have thought I would have done. Plus the satisifaction of giving something back.

__________________
Support the troops, if not the war.

ForgottenKnight

Road Trip!

Volunteering is good too!

Or just GET A JOB ANYWAYS! You don't have to tell them that you're going to college until you give them your two weeks notice, if you give them any notice.

__________________
"People say I'm strange, does that make me a stranger?"

paddyjoe

I also cast my vote for the road trip.


Then, when you pass through western N.Y., you can stop and wash my car.