Apologies

Hey everyone, first of all, sorry to keep you waiting by posting a day late. Honestly there's not a good reason for it, other than I sort of forgot which day it was yesterday :D. The fact that I am a day late with posting sort of indicates how it is going with my goals haha. Last week I announced some of my goals and the fact that I want to use my gap year efficiently and reach those goals and approach them with a serious work ethic, like I did school work. One of the things that has changed since I stopped skiing is that I got a job as a cashier in the supermarket. This takes up quite some of my time and thus it is the main factor deciding my daily schedules. Having something to do about 5 hours in a day helps to get some rhythm into my days. The only thing is that there is not really a difference between week days and the weekend, so I always wake up at the same time and do similar things. (which results in forgetting what day it is).

Other than that I have made a list of things I want to achieve in my gap year and ranked them on

Great photo to sponsor ;)

priority and 'due date'. Right now the most important things are taking care of my health, which means sticking to a diet, which calls for me to cook twice a day, another time consuming thing that is part of each day and thus creates some rhythm for me. Also going to the gym 5 times a week, of which twice to a personal trainer. One of my sessions with my personal trainer is tomorrow morning at 9, and it is a 40 minute bike, so I have to wake up old school early... Another high priority item right now is creating a sponsor plan. I am already quite far, because I also started working on this during the season this summer. However for some reason I didn't go through far enough with this and thus I have to still finish it and make some adjustments to get it ready for the season of 2017. I also want to be able to take this plan to the NWWB day, which is the Dutch federation for water-skiing and wakeboarding. (If you live in the Netherlands I would recommend this event, on the 13th of Novermber, just 17.50 euros, which will include a t-shirt and BBQ! Tickets can be found on nwwb.nl) On this day many people will come together to check out some boats and other relevant materials and most importantly congratulate this years champions. I think it is the perfect moment to get my sponsor plan out to the right people, so it must be done in the coming weeks. Finally, a high priority item is getting set for the USA. I want to be able to follow my university studies there and join a water-skiing team. For this I have to improve in skiing, which is of course in itself gap year priority number 1. However it is also time to take care of the administrative side of things. This I want to finish this calendar year, and since I'm planning on taking a vacation in December, I will have to do this the coming month too.

Thus for now, I have plenty things to fill my days and hopefully they will result in a fit new season with some new materials I will be able to afford after working 2 jobs, and hopefully sponsors and, best case scenario, combining university studies and water-skiing. Since I am not skiing anymore, I have ran out of pictures to attach to my blog, so here are some 'throwback photos'.