Choices

I will start with what I normally do in these blogs and give a small recap of last week and then we go to the big topic.

I had my first 2 classes last week on Wednesday and Thursday, the rest of week was just training and chilling. The class on Wednesday was at the university at the Melbourne city tower campus which is just a big skyscraper in the middle of the city. I had to get to level 9 to get to the classroom, which was a bunch of round tables with screens on every wall where the PowerPoint and less material was on for that day. It started with listening to the teacher and at the beginning I needed I had some trouble following everything because of some specific terms used. Then we had a small group project where I worked together with some guys, I am going to do the final presentation with as well. We had to make a small business plan for a fruit sorbet store in Melbourne. It was fun to discuss this, but also it felt like things I already had done at Fontys. After that we had to listen for the rest of the class to the teacher talking.

On Thursday we had a class online, so I stayed at my student housing and followed the class from there. It felt like I was back in Covid times and couldn’t keep my concentration all the way through and to top that THIS time it was the same of what I already had in my first year on Fontys.

Now back to the big topic Choices. How do you make choices, why are we making certain choices and when we made those choices are they impulsive or not. My first big choice this school year was where am I going to do my Minor and I decided after a long thought that I wanted to go abroad and study in Australia. So now I am here and enjoying every new thing every day, but just as I was adjusting to live at Uni and training and my first race at the end of March. I was confronted with making a choice. The choice I had to make had to be on short terms, so a fast decision had to be made/ I still need to make in the coming days. The choice for me was do I want to race the first week of April in New Zealand, which sounds like a super cool choice to make, but just like every choice it has consequences.

So, I will make a small list with pros and cons that is the first step towards a decision in my opinion.

Pros:
1. It helps my sport career develop further
2. I am not certain if I have the chance to race there again, because it is expensive to come here only for a race. So, this might be the only time.
3. There is a chance to see Christel in New Zealand (Kind of Family)
4. Xterra, has reached out that another competitor will organize travel from the airport and back, a car available and a place to stay. So, it is cost efficient.

Cons:
1. If I race, I miss out the first 2 weeks of a new Unit and I need to achieve 4 units to fulfill my study abroad.
2. I came here to study and train and do the one race in Australia

As you can see my cons list is shorter, but that doesn't by mean that the pros outweigh the cons NO. If the cons are more important to you then the pros the choice is made easy and vice versa. For my though the pros and cons are almost equal. What do you do then? Well, the first thing what I will do is talk with the Uni and see if they can help me with a solution so I might be able to race and in that month’s Unit.

Back to choices or my BIG and one choice. I have figured out that I needed some help with this choice and have not yet reached a decision.

The one thing I still want to mention is: WHAT IS YOUR LONG-TERM GOAL and how do you reach that. I think that is the most important thing to remember when making important choices. I’ll end it here, because I can ramble on about this subject and what I need to do and what I want, but that is not really interesting to anybody but me. Because a brain can just go on and on. I’ll hope to that you liked this subject, and the next one will be a more of a journal again. Thanks for reading and going through my thoughts with me. Catch you down under in a week or less.