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		<title>Dear internet&#8230; can you help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have exactly nine months left of my twenties. On my 18th birthday, someone gave me a notebook, and on each page I wrote one thing I wanted to do before I turned 30. Some trivial, some important. I&#8217;d largely forgotten about this exercise, but as I was moving house a couple of years ago I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharonodea.co.uk&blog=9007078&post=121&subd=sharonodea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I have exactly nine months left of my twenties.</p>
<p>On my 18th birthday, someone gave me a notebook, and on each page I wrote one thing I wanted to do before I turned 30. Some trivial, some important.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d largely forgotten about this exercise, but as I was moving house a couple of years ago I found the notebook and realised I&#8217;d done almost all of the things I&#8217;d listed in it.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;ve visited Asia and both ends of the Americas, bought an original piece of art, got my degree, gone somewhere I don&#8217;t speak the language and where no one speaks English, and so on. Most important of all was ambition number sixteen: <em>fall in love</em>, which I did five-and-a-bit years ago and remain happily so today.</p>
<p>However, three wishes in the book remain unfulfilled. These were:</p>
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<li>Visit Africa</li>
<li>Visit Australia</li>
<li>Find a sport I like and do it regularly</li>
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<p>Now the first two sound tricky, but if I really wanted to go I could book a plane ticket. No, the latter&#8217;s the hard one.</p>
<p>To give you some background, I am entirely blind in my right eye, which means I have pretty bad spacial awareness can&#8217;t see anything on my right-hand side. I also have really awful balance, which might be related to my first point, but that could just be me making excuses. Consequently, I am appallingly bad at every sport I&#8217;ve ever tried.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve posted this challenge to <a href="http://featsoftweet.com">Feats of Tweet</a>, the new project from <a href="http://twitter.com/paul_a_smith">Paul Smith</a>, better known as the <a href="http://twitter.com/twitchiker">Twitchiker</a>. Paul wants to harness the goodwill of the Twitter community to help people fulfil their goals and wishes. He&#8217;s invited people to Tweet in their wishes, and will select a few to go to the public vote on Monday (it&#8217;s a great idea, do check it out if you haven&#8217;t already).</p>
<p>My own unfulfilled wish isn&#8217;t likely to garner much sympathy when up against desperately-needed transplant organs, and rightly so. So I&#8217;m asking you, people on the interwebs; do you do any sport at all? Could an unfit, half-blind not-quite-thirty-year-old join in?</p>
<p>Over the next nine months I must surely be able to find some from of exercise that I&#8217;m not totally, depressingly crap at. But what? I&#8217;m willing to try pretty much anything. What can you suggest?</p>
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