Transcript Bucket List Assignment - St. Louis Public Schools

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Bucket List Assignment
Power point-
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1 slide with all 10 locations
2 slides for each location
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1st Slide: place (city or country) and/or the attraction;
the reason you want to go to that place (one
paragraph); demographics (population, language,
GDP, and Climate)
2nd Slide: Picture
30 points
Resources: CIA World Factbook, Letsgo.com, and trip
advisor.
Mr. Rohlfing’s Bucket
List
1. Travel to Machu Picchu (Peru)
2. Hike the Grand Canyon (United States)
3. Travel to Egypt
4. Ride a bike through the streets of Hong Kong (China
5. Attend San Fermin Festival (Spain) Done
6. Swim the Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
7. Visit Istanbul (Turkey)
8. Walk through the streets of Paris with my wife (Franc
9. Visit Petra (Jordan)
10. Visit the Angkhor Wat (Cambodia)
Pamplona,
Spain
#5 San Fermin: “Running of the Bulls”
- Pamplona (or Iruna) is home to the San Fermin festival
(fiesta). San Fermin is a week long festival in celebration of
summer and Saint Fermin which attracts over a million people
per year. Popularized by Earnest Hemingway’s The Sun Also
Rises, San Fermin is best known for the morning event of “the
running of the bulls. Each morning bulls race through the city on
the streets (which are fenced off) along with thousands of
people. The bulls end in an arena for a bull fight.
- I went to San Fermin in July 2003. I was attracted to this
event because of the thrill and the once in a lifetime experience.
It was the finish to a European backpacking journey with two of
Demographics
of
Spain:
my close friends.
- Language: Castilian Spanish
- Population:
47,042,984
-GDP: $1.537 Trillion
-Climate: temperate