My busy weekend...

Okay, so I haven't posted in a while... I have good reason!
I was going to post on the weekend, BUT I got a job... Which I worked both Friday AND Saturday, despite having to be out for both nights, and I took my little brother to see Kung Fu Panda 2 on Sunday... Great weekend for me, annoyance for you.
I do realise that I promised that 80 things on the list would be done by the end of this month, and I also realise that that's in two days, but despite the fact that I've stopped giving you peeks at what it could be, it will be done!

So, I thought I'd share with you a little of what I've done without you... putting up damn Marquees! The Summer Ball at my Sailing Club was on Saturday... I wasn't even invited, the joys of having your Mumengaged to the Commodore... On the plus side, I'm not as weedy as I once was!
The weekend was brilliant! Friday night was my friend's Birthday so there was a party-ish thing at his house, which involved jumping on a trampoline in the pouring rain with my friend lying on it while we bounced around him shouting " Magikarp use splash!" and having a conversation with his Mum about how to measure a bra...
Saturday night was hilarious! The party I went to then, was themed. The theme being time, so everyone was dressed ridonkulously! I went as an 80's punk rocker, I have to say, I really can't pull it off... I also discovered that I'm about as flexible as a rock. We played the cereal box game, which involves picking up a cereal box with your mouth and only touching the floor with your feet... As it's being cut smaller and smaller... I was the first person out.

My French apology!
Je s'excuser pour mon sucer.
I apologise for my suck.

I honestly don't know how accurate that is, but hey, google translate says that I'm apologising for sucking...

I will have the completed list up on Wednesday, as long as I don't die in between now and then...

First 20 things!

The first 20 things of the list have been decided indefinitely. There are more to come and we will have an 80% finished list, the last 20 things will be left as I feel that doing these things will inspire me to do more, and I want to have room to add them to the list.
Here's the list:

1. 1.To learn The Cave - Mumford and Sons on Ukulele. 
2. 2.Writing and recording an actual song!
3. 3.To learn to make 100 things using origami!
4. 4.To draw/paint/getartfunky something that means creativity... 
5. 5.Learn French!
6. 6.Cycle from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland (I was going to walk/hike it, but a dear friend pointed out that that may take a considerably long time...)
7. 7.Write a book
8. 8.Write a comic book series.
9. 9.Dye my hair a crazy colour (I'm thinking blue...)
10. 10.Get a tattoo
11. 11.Sleep outside and look at the stars
12. 12.Donate blood
13. 13.Break a world record
14. 14.Learn all the moves to a dance
15. 15.Stop biting my nails
16. 16.Read the bible, the WHOLE way through.
17. 17. Run a marathon
18. 18.Go to France (Test out the French and all)
19. 19. Rap a whole song
20. 20.Meet John Green (A man who is becoming something which was not possible before, my favourite author)
21. 
    
22. I know I promised a French phrase every week, but I don't have a French to English dictionary, and I don't want to test the reliability of an online translator, so as soon as I get one, I will apologise, in French at my suckishness.

As always suggestions would be welcome.

Cheers

The start of a list!

Okay, so as I said in my first blog I wanted to do some creative things, and have now came up with a few things, ta da!

1. To learn The Cave - Mumford and Sons on Ukulele. Okay, so I got my Uke during the Easter holidays and really can't play a single thing... I'm trying though! I really have had no musical ambition up until now, and have realised how talentless I am, but it will be done!
2. Writing and recording (with hopefully help from some friends) an actual song!
3. Okay, so this one is kind of silly, but I want to learn to make 100 things using origami! Purely because it's always interested me but I only ever have time to create small things and then usually I forget...
   
4. To draw/paint/getartfunky something that means creativity... Okay so that sounds kind of lame, but I hope to fill this a really big canvas full of as many different styles of art which all send the same message...
5. Learn French! I used to do French in school, but as a bad pupil I skived it a lot and dropped it at the first possible opportunity. Only now am I seeing the value of what I lost, I can speak enough French to keep up basic conversation, but I want to be able to say things like, 'That Unicorn is looking rather rampant today!' I'll give you a French phrase a week to keep you up to date with that?

Okay, so it's a start, obviously some things such as learning The Cave on Ukulele can't be done in a month from the fact that I really suck and it's way beyond my ability, so I've decided to change it from doing a creative thing a month to a hundred creative things over the course of the next two years, but obviously I will show project progress every month, add photo's or tell you about how far I've gotten in certain things just to keep you guys interested and show I'm focused...

Just to let you guys to know that this month is purely dedicated to developing that list so don't expect to see anything on it yet (Well, maybe the French...)

Feel free to e-mail me any questions or suggestions at jefftheafrican@gmail.com

Buenos dias!

Bonjour.

Hello!
This is my first blog, so erm, welcome?
As you can probably see at the moment I haven't really made much effort in setting it up, BUT there is currently a proper background being mapped out and sorted especially for this...
I suppose I should tell you a bit about myself:

• My name's Jeff
  
• I'm Seventeen
• Currently doing A levels; Physics, Maths and History.
  
• Decided to start blogging for two reasons really; First being that I've decided to do something which I've named as the 'Do something creative' project, in which I plan to do a creative project a month which I shall blog about, add pictures, descriptions and build ups on here.
  The Second reason is that I personally enjoy writing as a hobby and thought that this would be a good place to share some of my creative 'intellect'.
• I'm JeffTheAfrican because well, I'm African.

That seems to introduce me quite well I think, not too much information, but enough to leave you slightly intrigued (I hope..)

Adios!