- Hey, guys, welcome to Vlognukah day eight.
It is the last day.
How was it?
I don't know how it was.
I feel sorry for all the people doing Vlogmas
who still have like four or maybe five other videos to make.
And most of those people are making them daily,
whereas I like to pre-film. (laughs)
This has got nothing to do with the topic of the video.
I'm Hannah Witton, I'm 25 years old,
and so I thought now would be a good time
to make a 30 before 30 bucket list.
This list has had a lot of thought put into it,
a lot of time.
It's taken me a day.
I wasn't really sure how to approach this.
I did a blog post recently that was my five-year plan,
and I was like, "Oh, wait, that's until I'm 30,"
so what's the difference
between that five-year plan and this list?
Here's the difference.
That five-year plan is career goals,
big picture kind of stuff, whereas this is bucket listy.
A lot of these things are travel-orientated.
There are a lot more areas of the world and countries
that I haven't been to and I want to go to,
but I haven't put it in as Southeast Asia or South America.
I've put in more specific places and things
that I want to do on here.
The way that I always think about bucket lists, goals,
resolutions is that they're flexible.
Priorities change.
And if you don't complete them,
then you're not a failure unless it's something
that you still really, really want to do.
So the way I want this to work
is that I'm gonna give you the list now,
and then when I turn 29 I'm going to reevaluate the list,
see what I've done,
see what I don't care about doing anymore,
and things that I still care about and want to do,
and then I'll have a year to do those last few things.
And maybe I'll add some more things to it as well,
but I'm not gonna change this list until I turn 29.
I'm gonna start with the list now.
One, run another half marathon.
I did a half marathon when I was at university,
and I definitely feel like I am not at that level
of fitness anymore, and I would love to run another one.
I've not put a marathon on there.
That might be 40 things to do before I'm 40, we'll see.
Two, read 50 books in one year.
This has been on my New Year's resolutions list
the last two, three years.
Still haven't done it, so I'm giving myself five years,
and at least one of those years I have to read 50 books.
Maybe even 52, 'cause that can be one a week.
Three, write a fiction novel.
NaNoWriMo taught me that it is bloody hard to write fiction,
and I don't think I'm very good at it,
so challenge accepted.
The next bunch of things are all in the travel category.
Four, I wanna do the Inca trail.
I know there's lots of different Inca trails,
so I'm gonna do my research into it
and figure out where I wanna go
and how far I wanna walk (laughs) basically.
Five, Hobbiton in New Zealand.
I feel like I'm small enough
for it to be perfect height for me.
How small are Hobbits?
I think they're smaller than me.
Number six, I wanna go to Yosemite National Park.
Seven, I wanna go to Auschwitz.
If you could tell from the title of this series, Vlognukah,
I am Jewish.
My Jewish family are German and Eastern European Jews,
so strong history there.
I just really want to go.
On a completely different note, number eight, Newcastle.
I'm 25 years old (laughs) and I've never been to Newcastle.
It's not far.
It's quite far.
In the grand scheme of things it's not far.
A place that is quite far that's number nine,
Antarctica/Arctic.
I wanna see it.
I don't know if that's something that I'll do before I'm 30,
but that's definitely a lifetime thing.
I just wanna go to Antarctica or the Arctic.
Which one's better?
Number 10, I wanna go to Glastonbury.
Why not?
My parents have been.
Another festival that I really wanna go to is Burning Man.
The inner hippie inside of me is fascinated
by the whole culture of Burning Man.
So any friends who also wanna go, hit me up.
Another kind of festival thing,
I wanna go to South by Southwest which is in Austin, Texas.
I used to live in Austin when I was four, five years old.
So I don't remember it very much,
but I have been back to visit and I love Austin.
Bonus points if I get to go
to South by Southwest as a speaker.
Number 13, pay off student debt.
I am very lucky that I was the last year
that got the three grand fees,
so my student debt is not as big as my little sister's.
Hers is like twice as much as mine.
Sorry about that, Leah.
Blame the Tories.
But yeah, I would like to be student debt-free.
We'll see.
14, sort out pension.
As someone who is self-employed,
I have not sorted out my pension yet.
Friends of mine the same age as me
who have been in full-time employment will have been paying
into a pension for three years,
whereas I have paid in zero pounds.
Who knows when the retirement age will be?
Maybe I'll have to work until I'm 70.
Number 15, own a flat.
This one is currently happening, potentially soon,
so that one is gonna happen,
but I thought I'd put it on the list anyway.
Being a property owner.
16, host a dinner party.
I have done that,
but in brackets I've put cook three courses.
Full on Come Dine with Me, cooking starter, main, dessert.
We'll see how that goes.
17, get my master's.
I'm currently searching
through all of these different master's degrees in London
around gender and sexuality.
18, reach half a million subscribers on YouTube.
Milestones are good.
Numbers are good.
Sometimes that is a milestone that I would like to hit.
Half a mil, aim there.
19, meet J.K. Rowling and Emma Watson.
Another pipe dream.
Number 20, I want to vote for a party
that actually wins the general election.
I have voted in three general elections so far.
The party that I've voted for has never gotten in.
Living out my adult life
under a government that doesn't represent me.
Number 21, keep a plant alive.
I've not really given any specifics here
of how long I have to keep this plant alive,
but let's just say, I don't know,
keep a plant alive, Hannah.
Number 22, own a pet or three.
This is another one that I'm pretty sure is gonna happen,
'cause me and Dan wanna get geckos.
That will be after we're settled in the flat.
We'll see.
I love planning for the future,
but I also hate saying it out loud
in case there's the embarrassment of being like,
oh, we're gonna live together and be together forever
and we're gonna get pets,
and then it just (blows raspberry) all goes to shit.
But hey, just live every day.
Just live every day as it comes.
But also make plans, 'cause that's good.
23, live in a different country for a month.
I am so settled where I am right now,
but I don't want that to stop me
from experiencing new things,
and I feel like a month is a nice amount of time
to live somewhere else.
I don't know, maybe somewhere in Europe.
Who knows?
Could be a fun experience.
24, (laughs) I wrote a proper Disney World holiday.
I went to Disney World as a five year old,
and I don't really remember it that much,
and then went to Disney World as an adult
but was only there for like half a day.
You can't do anything at Disney World for half a day.
I just wanna spend a week in Disney World.
I just need to get it out of my system.
I need to scratch that itch.
And I wanna do it without little children so I can drink.
Question is, will Dan want to come with me?
25, see the Northern Lights.
I think there's a bunch of places that you can see it from.
Sometimes you can see it
if you go really far north in Scotland, Iceland,
and then some parts of Scandinavia.
So I don't know where I'll go to see it,
but I wanna see the Northern Lights.
Number 26, eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant.
I have no idea if I'm pronouncing that right,
and only recently I learned how to spell it.
I used to think it was called a mission.
I wanna do one of those seven course taster menus
so I can just eat a little bit of lots of fancy foods.
Number 27, bottomless brunch.
I know what you're thinking: Hannah, you're 25.
How have you not had a bottomless brunch before?
I've had Prosecco and mimosas and stuff with brunch before,
but I've never gone all in.
Especially in the U.K.,
they put a time limit on most of the places
that do bottomless brunch.
New York, Brooklyn,
do your bottomless brunches have time limits?
Because I'm gonna need more than two hours
if I'm gonna get through the amount of Prosecco
that I want to get through.
Number 28, dye my hair.
I'm trying to grow my hair out again
'cause I want to donate it,
but I recently found out that I can still donate it
even if it's dyed or bleached
as long as it's a natural hair colour.
I don't know if I wanna wait until afterwards
to dye my hair pink or red.
If I do dye it another natural colour,
I think I would prefer to go blonder rather than darker.
I don't know, I do love my natural hair colour.
I don't wanna get into a habit of bleaching and dyeing.
I don't wanna ruin my hair, basically.
But I do just wanna experiment with different colours.
29, go skiing.
Yes, I am middle class and I have never been skiing.
I also think I would be bad at it,
but I would just like to do it.
30 is private.
You don't get to know what number 30 is.
I do.
Okay, so there is my 30 before 30 bucket list.
Maybe if I had spent a bit more time with it,
I could've come up with better things
that are actually important to me.
But if you leave things that are on your list
in the comments, that will be really cool.
Maybe I'll just be changing my list immediately
and be like, oh, yeah, that's something
that I really wanna do.
I don't know.
But yeah, thanks for watching this video,
and thanks for watching Vlognukah.
If you missed any of the videos,
there'll be a playlist link in the description.
I'm now going to take a week or two off
for Christmas/New Year,
and I'll be back at the beginning of January.
You got me for eight days in your sub box,
and now we're having a healthy break.
Happy Chanukah.
Hope you had a great Chanukah.
Merry Christmas if you celebrate Christmas.
Happy New Year, all of those things.
How do we end this?
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