The First Year

My new year’s resolution in 2018 was to try 52 new things. I’d been trying a few new things over the previous years, and was loving getting out of my comfort zone and experiencing things I’d never tried before. 

2018 Fifty-Two New Things - Write Up's Coming Soon...

I’ll gradually be adding write ups – if only I’d started doing that when I began doing 52 new things! However, below is the list of all of the new things I tried in that inaugural year. 

 

Fifty-Two New Things - 2018

1. Joined Strava

2. Tried Zumba

A group of women infront of a mirror in a dance hall. They are wearing sports clothes and practicing zumba

3. Tried Hot Yoga

Picture of a sign that says 'Yoga Bomb' on it, for a hot yoga class

4.Toastmasters

5. Stand-up Desk

Me, Sally, A white woman with dark hair working at a stand up desk as a new experience for Challenge Fifty-Two

6. Banff Festival

An image on a screen at Banff Film Festival

7. Good Gym

Me, Sally, A white woman in running kit wearing gardening gloves and putting up a fence with Good Gym

8. Roseberry Topping

9. Volunteered

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair wearing green whilst volunteering at Edinburgh Marathon as a new experience for Challenge Fifty-Two

10. Laughter Yoga

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair, holding up a leaflet about a laughter yoga class

11. Pacer At ParkRun

Me, Sally, a white woman wearing running kit and a bib with the words '28 minutes' to indicate being a pacer at parkrun

12. Lay In A hammock

Me, Sally, a white woman laying in a hammock. A new experience for challenge fifty-two

13. Explored local parks

A cloudy sky over a park with green grass with trees around the edge and a small pavillion building in the centre.

14. 2 Minute Clean-Up

A pair of gardening gloves and a full bag of rubbish. Part of the two minute clean incentive.

15. Hot Stone Massage

A pile of wet stones on a pebbly beach

16. Ran The York Walls

A low image looking from the York walls across an inscribed stone that says 'York Minster'

17. Stand Up Comedy

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair. Wearing a blue spotty dress and holding a microphone doing stand up comedy as a new experience

18.Burlesque Dance

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair wearing a yellow t-shirt. With a lady instructing a burlesque chair dancing class

19. Gong Sound Bath

Close up of a gong used in a gong sound bath

20. Personal Shopper

Clothes on wooden hangers on a rail

21. Floatation Tank

A flotation tank device, open with blue light coming from inside

22. Picked My Own

A polytunnel full of strawberry plants. A sign outside says 'picking here today - Strawberries'

23. Street Dance

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair wearing sports wear and smiling next to the lady teaching the street dance class

24. Drumming Lesson

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair, playing the drums as a new experience for challenge fifty two

25. Great York Ghosts

A leaflet about the great York ghost hunt and a picture of a ghost with a pumpkin on its head

26. Five Rhythms

Me, Sally, a white woman with a leaflet about five rhythms on it infront of my face

27. Fight Fit Combat

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair in a fighting pose next to the instructors of the fight fit combat class

28. Pottery

three small homemade pots on a wooden table. The pots were made in a pottery class

29. Snowboarding

Me, Sally, a white woman wearing skiing clothes and a helmet whilst holding a snowboard on the snow. Part of a snowboarding class.

30. Pilates

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair. Wearing sports wear in a sports hall. Lying on a mat whilst trying a pilates move as a new experience.

31. Bungee Fitness

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair wearing sports kit. Jumping in the air whilst attached to a bungee fitness harness

32. St Nick's Volunteer

Me, Sally, a white woman with white hair doing some cultivating as a volunteer with Saint Nick's

33. Made Pasta

A bubbling pan of home made pasta made from scratch

34. Colour Cycle

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair riding on a static bike in a green room as part of a colour cycle class

35. Hopi Ear Candle

Me, Sally, a white woman on a massage bed whilst enjoying a hopi ear candle treatment

36. Acupuncture

A white hand with a thin acupuncture needle placed in a key point.

37. Japanese Wheelcake

A delicious looking Japanese Wheelcake with a bite taken out of it

38. Crochet

A ball of green wool and a crochet tool

39. Made Bread

Me, Sally, a white woman with dark hair, wearing red and white spotted oven gloves whilst holding out a tray of home made bread rolls

40. Ate A Cricket

Close up of a packet which says 'eat grub, delicious insect snacks. Sweet chilli and lime crunchy roasted crickets'

41. Spray Tan

Close up of me, Sally, a white woman, looking perplexed and slightly dark after a spray tan

42. Made Pizza

A home made pizza, made from scratch on a wooden board. Delicious toppings of tomato, mozzarella and basil

43. Spider Arch Socks

two feet with pink and purple spider arch socks and the packaging in the middle

44. Eyebrow Threading

Me, Sally, a white woman, sat in a chair having eyebrow threading treatment for the first time

45. Bra Fitting

A pink sign with the words 'the bra fit event' on it

46. Ukulele Lesson

A brown ukulele lying on its side on a cream sofa

47. Ran Every Day

Looking down at a pink and black trainer on tarmack

48. Fifty-Two Frames

49. Submarine Visit

A blue submarine in a dry dock

50. Opened Fizz

Me, Sally, a white woman wearing a winter coat and white hat, opening a bottle of fizz and spraying it outside at night

51. Rickshaw Ride

52. New Year Abroad

Fireworks exploding in a dark sky on New Year's Eve

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