Obviously you hope the team uses what itвЂ™s seen all season to make its decisions, but this is hockey, where one good world juniors run has Pierre McGuire shouting what high school you went to and suddenly youвЂ™re a first-rounder. Now, if there is any truth to the idea that a couple of games could swing the direction of this franchise, it feels like the last two games have quite firmly informed management that they should be in sell mode.

One of these lives has a future and one of them does not. The other life is lived in the playoff race, where they go by the alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every hockey man crime we have a law for. They have a comfortable amount of salary cap space, they pay their organist, and they help Ryan Biech by acquiring him draft picks at the trade deadline. Anderson, a hockey team that is doing a respectable rebuild.

So if you do have an ever-expansive to-do list, donвЂ™t beat yourself up if you donвЂ™t check every box because, as cheesy as it sounds, you probably found something even better.ThereвЂ™s a scene in вЂњThe MatrixвЂќ where Agent Smith is interrogating Neo about how heвЂ™s been living two lives, which feels like it could be applied to the Canucks quite easily. Were I to have had this rigid set of to-dos at any point, I wouldвЂ™ve easily shut myself off from a myriad of new and exciting opportunities. Looking back on my time here, I couldвЂ™ve never expected to find the amazing connections and experiences that I have. I didnвЂ™t come into this experience with any hard and fast to-dos, and I couldnвЂ™t recommend it enough. Whether that be in a year, five years, or twenty-five years, I donвЂ™t need to do everything all in one go. I have years and years ahead of me where in all likelihood, I will be back here. I wonвЂ™t be banned from ever returning to Amsterdam (lack of physical IND residence permit notwithstanding). JessвЂ™s sentiment was especially reassuring to me because it reminded me that my time here was not finite. Your time abroad hurdles by, and while itвЂ™s all too easy to measure your experience abroad by how many countries you visited, or how many sites you saw, or how many people you met, itвЂ™s really about finding the things and the people that make your life here feel like home. It was a simple and beautiful thought, one that my do-it-all attitude had blinded me from. But the question on everyoneвЂ™s lips remains вЂњwhat canвЂ™t you leave here without doing?вЂќ As my angst over having the perfect last week grew more and more consuming, I turned to my friend Jess on the metro and asked, вЂњDonвЂ™t you feel like itвЂ™s kind of overwhelming that we have so much to do in such a short time here?вЂќ And to this, Jess wisely said, вЂњWhy rush to the end when we will be back here someday?вЂќ I know, it sounds disgusting, but it is a really popular Dutch food and one of my roommates has been raving about it for months now, so I guess IвЂ™ll throw that on the list.ДЄs I enter my last week in Amsterdam, I traveled to Porto, been on two boats, and even scarfed down some pickled herring. Third, weirdly, I really want to try pickled herring. But IвЂ™m determined to get on a boat before I leave. My friends and I have scheduled them once or twice, but routinely get rained out and have to cancel. Second, I have been dying to do one of the boat tours here. IвЂ™m spending a few days there this month and IвЂ™m so looking forward to it.

After asking some of my most well-traveled friends what the must see country is, Portugal was the resounding answer. The top of my current list is to visit Portugal. To this question I replied: Honestly, IвЂ™ve ticked most of my study abroad bucket list items. Half way through the semester I was asked: Tell us 3 things that are on your study abroad bucket list.

The final countdown