Horseback riding

One of my FAVOURITE sports is horseback riding. I have been riding since I was 5 years old and have enjoyed the whole experience. It sometimes is a hard job and takes a lot of work like, taking them up, grooming then, feeding them, and going through hard days when they just don’t want to listen to you. It is all hard and a can be challenging but after you’ve had a good day with great ride it was all worth the hard work and effort.

One of my favourite things about riding is going FAST! I love it when the horse just takes you where ever he wants to go at the fastest speed possible. For most people that is a very scary thing but for me it is amazing fun! I also enjoy jumping which I have been doing since I was 9, the first jump I ever did was about half a metre and I was so scared I felt like I wanted to cry, but after I had got over that very small jump I made my teacher put it up another half a metre and I did it again! J

I’ve ridden many different horses, I’ve ridden, small horses, tall horses, fats horses, stubborn horses, slow horses, young horses, very old horses and my personal favourite ex show jumper horses. At my old barn we had an ex show jumper horse called V. He was amazing at jumps and had great height to every jump he did. One time I was ridding V and we were coming up to a jump and to the right of the jump was a 6 foot wall which no one was allowed to jump because it had a couple of loose bricks, so we were lopping up to this jump and V suddenly decides to go to the right and jump over this HUGE wall. When I felt myself going over I was so excited I asked if I could do it again but my teacher said no and got me off the horse and switched me with another more experienced rider which was fine but it was the funniest thing I have ever done on a horse and I will never forget it. J

Small things

All things matter in this world, especially the small things. You sometimes never notice the small things, only ever the big and unimportant things like, Miley Cyrus just got a haircut or Hillary Duff just got cast into gossip girl. These things are unimportant and have no impact on your life, but things like your child’s first word or your daughter graduating collage are small in the overall world of events they don’t get into the news or the national papers however for the people involved they can be life changing.

When I went to England this year for a visit my Mum had arranged a surprise party for me with all my old school friends and their parents which I had no idea about. I was walking down the stairs in the hotel we were staying in and I saw all my friends at the bottom, waving at me to come down and holding out there arms as if they wanted a hug. I was shocked and so happy to see all of them but the first person I hugged was my Mum to thank her for the surprise then I ran down the stairs and hugged all of my friends. Then we all went outside and talked about our schools and how we missed being together all the time. For most people meeting up with your friends is a daily thing but for me living 4,000 miles away from my friends was amazing and I will never forget it.

Even though I have some amazing new friends in Canada I still do miss my friends in England and them making the effort to turn up to the surprise party and Mum arranging it all was the best ever. For such a small effort from them was such a huge gift to me.

Experience at Norvel.

What does it take to accomplish teamwork? After coming back from norvel I found the answer to that question. On Monday our school had a trip to Norvel, we got split up in to 2 groups and we both set with different challenges. We first all played a game with a parachute, basically someone is in the middle of the parachute and all the people around the outside have to all pull at the same time to make the person in the middle fly up into the air, I was one of the last people to go and I was VERY nervous but in the end it was SO funJ!

My group’s first task was trying to get up a 14ft wall with nothing but ourselves. This personally was my favourite task we did. So we came up with an plan, the plan was to have 2 people hold out there knees to boost someone up and then push them up on their hands to get to the top. We all worked hard and in the end we got everyone up and over the wall.

Our next challenge we had to choose 1 person to get hooked up to a lot of ropes, we all got split into 4 teams and then each team had a rope, we then had to control the person strapped to the ropes to collect different coloured balls, will basically was the leader and we successful got all the balls, but our team did struggle on all listening to each other’s ideas.

After that we did a drum circle which was AZAMING! We all had to each have a drum and play along with the instructor. I also loved how he got everyone in the audience involved. We played many interesting songs and they even gave us a performance of them all playing.
Overall this day was great, I learned how it be a leader and a good team member.