Alphlyka

Thanks love! I'm definitely not there yet, though; perhaps I am a baby badass; or an embryonic badass.

I'm EB (female BTW) and I'm in my first year of university studying classical violin at McGill University in Montreal. My violin's name is Ludivine or Ludi. I'm living in the city right now but I grew up in the mountainous wilderness of western Canada and in the past year I've come to realize that I could never exist in the city for any length of time. This is my epic quest to finish school, return to the wilderness and become a badass mountain warrior woman, while simultaneously building a musical career. EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL GOALS complete my Bachelors of Musicget my Masters of Music get a Doctorate get a job in a symphony orchestra (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hopefully) that earns me more than 40k a year earn my Suzuki Violin Teacher certification and have a private teaching studio of more than 10 students become a member of a professional string quartet OTHER LIFE GOALS own a home in the woods less than an hour's commute to the city where I work live within a day's drive of my parents and siblings get my driver's licence (soon!) own a car and a motorcycle find a life partner, marriage optional raise at least two children (my siblings are everything to me), biological or adopted or fostered even, doesn't matter be debt-free own at least one dog and cat keep chickens grow a vegetable garden own a grand piano THE MOUNTAIN WARRIOR LIFESTYLE rise before the sun every morning practice violin at least 4 hours a day work out (strength or cardio) six days a week go without makeup (except for concerts) because it's no good for my skin make time for myself to blob out and play video games so I don't end up hating my life 7 hours of sleep every night, BARE MINIMUMMUSICAL ACHIEVEMENTS learn all of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin learn all the standard violin concertos learn all the Beethoven Violin sonatas win a national-level violin competition compose a string quartet compose a violin concerto compose a violin & piano sonata compose a solo violin sonata compose a symphony meet Maxim Vengerov meet Anne-Sophie Mutter meet Hilary Hahn meet James Ehnes PHYSICAL ACHIEVEMENTS complete a marathon complete a triathlon run 5k in under 25 minutes run 10k in under 50 minutes have 16% body fat or less visible abs do 50 pushups consecutively do 15 pullups consecutively BADASSERY get good at mountain biking transition to running barefoot become a strong swimmer (learn the front and back crawl properly) get good at fly fishing learn some advanced wilderness survival skills (trap-setting and shelter building) learn basic woodworking and welding become proficient in some kind of martial art/self-defense learn to ride a motorcycle learn some basic freerunning/parkour learn to ski and snowboard (well) learn to ride a horse get good at whitewater kayaking get good at rock climbing and bouldering get my pilot's licence go skydiving go bungee jumping learn to sail go hang-gliding go scuba diving learn archery learn to skateboard build an epic obstacle course around my house WORLD TREKKER GOALS visit Bhutan visit St. Petersburg visit Tokyo visit Macchu Picchu hike the West Coast Trail hike the Appalachian Trail climb the Seven Peaks walk El Camino de Santiago visit every country in Europe (including Eastern Europe) visit Mongolia visit the Amazon rainforest visit the Australian outback visit New Zealand visit Egypt,Tunisia & Morocco KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS learn to speak French fluently learn to speak German fluently learn to speak Russian conversationally learn to read and write in Latin take a First Aid course learn to draw learn to paint learn to play guitar learn to play harmonica get good at chess learn to swing dance learn to bind books get good at photography learn to knit learn to sew