Bucket List, Idaho

Bucket List, Idaho

Nathan Baumgardner

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Do you want to live like today is your last day? Live the way Ben Wolf did (but without the terminal illness)? Well now you can! All you have to do is pack up your bags and move to Bucket List, Idaho, the only place where once a week the town does something thrilling, go someplace exotic, or do something that isn’t the norm. Well now is the chance! We have 2 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, 4 bedrooms, homes or even build your own house! Families, couples, and singles are all welcome. We have an amazing town with a grocery store, clothing stores, and drug stores where you can get all your personal needs. We also have a small school or there are private schools close by, but, do you remember Mr. Lambeer? Well our school has a policy where you can mess around with a teacher, without getting out of line, and not get in trouble! And you can work at any of our stores, become a teacher, or we are only 30 minutes west of Boise, Idaho and there are plenty of job opportunities there.

In Deadline Ben Wolf is a cross country star. He is 123 and isn’t the tallest but he has fast feet and is an absolute cross country beast. But something comes up, "And lay it one me he did, and I am no longer quite so glib," (Ch 1, Pg 3) Doc tells Ben that he has a terminal illness and must go through treatment ASAP, but Ben decides not to. Doc of course doesn’t understand but he doesn’t push it any further. Ben has a school year to live and he first decides he’ll go out for football along with his star quarterback brother. The he has to get the hottest girl, Dallas Suzuki, to go to Homecoming with him. He also wants to mess with the worst teacher in the school, Mr. Lambeer. "'Aw, I'm just keeping Mr.Lambeer honest...' Coach laughs,'Okay, let me know when i need to prepare to bail you out," (Ch 11, Pg 150). He has to do this all before he dies, without telling anyone. Well Ben does go out for football and he is very small for the sport but he becomes one of the best special team players around. He also gets to go on a date with Dallas, and another one, and maybe a few more and they end up becoming a couple. In Mr. Lambeer’s class Ben reads the Autobiographies of Malcolm X and learns that what a lot of American history teachers don’t teach the truth about American history. He questions everything in the class. In football the team makes it to state thanks from Ben and his brother connecting on a last second diving catch in the end zone. This all happens so quickly in the book that it seems like there is no room for the end but there is. Towards the middle of the book Ben finds out that the local drunk is an ex-priest child molester who has turned to alcohol to keep him from molesting children. Ben tries to help him but there isn’t really a way to. He ends up committing suicide a couple of weeks before Ben ends up dying. This book is really great even though it has such a rough and sad surface but if you dig up underneath; it becomes a great book with a great message to it, live like today is your last day or from the book, "'Live every day like you're going to live forever and every day like it's going to be your last.'"

Bucket List, Idaho will be great for people who love Deadline but can still live without a terminal illness. The houses are reasonably priced starting at $35,000 for a 2 bedroom and about $75,500 for a 4 bedroom (for a build-your-own-home, it will depend on the company). Some of the upcoming trips we have planned is a weekend long trek through the Amazon Rainforest (April 13-16), the next weekend on Saturday (April 21) we will go to the rocky mountains and snowboard down the slopes of the steepest mountain, and on April 30 we will take a trip to a skydiving place and fly over the pacific and skydive down to the ocean. This is just one month worth of stuff! So what are you waiting for? Come on over to Bucket List, Idaho, where you can live like today is your last day!