“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

It’s 8: 49 AM on day 1935 of my journey towards independence prayed, read 2 Corinthians 1 and listened to music.

Today is the first year of 2016 and in honour of that (yep you guessed it) I created a 2016 To-Do List. Take a look:

2016 To-Do List

1. Raise $6 250+ for Smile Train ($6 250 will pay for 25 cleft lip/palate surgeries [in honour of my 25^th year of life]) (I will probably start the fundraising campaign later this month)  (surpassed goal of  sponsoring 25 smiles through my 25 Smiles Campaign now attempting to sponsor 50 smiles before Jan 10 2017)
2. Be respectful, kind, honest and generous (Am trying to be)
3. Call my godparents once a month (Have called them every month I didn’t see them)
4. Learn one new thing every day (doing it)
5. Continue trying to finish reading The Bible (done on April 20, 2016)
6. Continue to make sandwiches for sisi’s (our housekeeper’s) neighbourhood as part of Virginia’s Sandwich Run (doing it)
7. Read 20+ books (read 6 books so far)
8. Self-publish my book Life: My thoughts on everything from faith to beauty
9. Support myself financially
10. Meet Jacqui Mackway-Wilson 
11. Meet Sebastian Schütte
12. Learn to fully undress and redress myself
13. Learn to help myself in the bathroom

(Note: This post was updated on July 14, 2016)