Weekend Jumping

On the long weekend, Monday, I went to my mums friend Marcella's house. She has 3 daughters. Abby, Danny, and Shawn. Shawn is my younger sister Emma's best friend. Me, my mum and my sister Emma were going to go to Beachbrook stables to ride but the owner was having problems so we got stuck. My pony Scooby and Emma's pony Coco were stomping about in the float behind us so we called Marcella. she said we could come over for a lesson.

When we got there we brushed our ponies. Coco made a mess because she had her winter coat on. After that me, Shawn (because she was riding her pony Lulu) and Emma tacked up our ponies. Scooby went into the arena first for a quick lunge before we got on. When he was done my mum put Coco on the lunge.

I got on Scooby without a leg up and Marcella let me warm up at a walk. Then when I was warmed up I went into a trot.We continued that same trot for a while until she pulled me into he middle. She taught me about spaghetti reins which are when you let your reins go loose and loopy. She said it's like a phone, when your let your reins go loose you lose contact and can't communicate with your horse. When you have a good contact, you can talk with your horse. She set marks for me to trot over in a circle and she taught me to half-halt.

She said I could pop over small blue jump but I thought she meant the big one so I jumped over that one. Marcella said that one was harder and she set up a jumping course for me. The first jump was the big blue jump I did before and I made it clear. The second jump was the small blue one, I made that as well. The third was a red and black jump. I made the rest of the jumps clear and then got off Scooby.

Jumping is fantastic and I want to do it again.

Riding Lesson

On Thursday October 24th I had a riding lesson. It was at Beach brook Stables which holds camps and birthdays as well. They have over 18 horses and they can all be ridden. I ride my own pony though, Scooby. The lesson was with Jess and Jorgia.

We started out with simple trots and exercises then our instructor Gill took me in for a lunge. She made me canter and it was really fast so I got to hold onto the saddle. Then we did trotting poles. We soon moved up to jumping our ponies. Jorgia was on Moose and he could just trot over the poles. Same with Jess's horse Eeyore. Scooby had to jump over though because he was 2.1 hands smaller than Eeyore and Moose. He would land on the other side in a canter.

When we were finished we did some tricks like around the world, where you spin on your horses back, and standing up on your horse. When it was Jess's turn to stand up her horse collapsed, bucked and cantered away. She fell and I jumped off Scooby and ran to help her. She was alright. After that she got back up on her horse and finished the lesson.

Cricket Rounders

Today we played cricket rounders. I was on team Mathematics and the other team was Reading. Mathematics was doing fielding and bowling first. I had to stand next to the bowler, Manase, so I could catch any close bats. At one point I got hit in the leg really hard. I kept on playing though. At the end it was only Ronan W with the bat. Manase had swapped bowling with Ronan C who hadn't warmed up and it was late in the game.

We eventually swapped teams and Mathematics was batting and Reading was fielding. I got out early-ish and got to go on the swing while other people played. Reading won the game 55-34.

Writing is Sensational

Writing is a fun activity where you can use your creativity. It can be used to argue, write stories,
inform and explain. Writing is a subject at schools worldwide.

When you write your imagination can open up and you can put down all of your ideas on one sheet. It may take while to plan, but you can create brilliant stories. You can share your ideas with people around you and your family. You can also use knowledge for information reports and arguments for different subjects.Your hands help you let your mind flow on to the paper/device in front of you while generating new ones in your head.

Lots of writing (mainly stories) can be enjoyable to write as you can create intense moments, happy moments, sad moments and angry moments. A writer can take their audience on a boat full of stormy seas and sunshine. Writing can even be turned into a thrilling movie!

With writing you can really get into the depth of your characters. You might feel their emotions, their parents might have died and they came back to life or they could  meet a pet that they will be bonded with forever. The characters emotions are important as long as you think it fits the scenario.

Writing can be enjoyable in many ways and emotional at the same time. Your imagination will create daring and fascinating scenarios for you to 'oooh' and 'aaah' over and share with your family.

What I did in the Holidays

In the holidays I did a lot of exciting things. On the Monday of the first week of the holidays I got my ears pierced . We went to the Otaki Pharmacy where Jess got her ears  done. Me, my mum and my sister Emma walked in and there was another girl getting her ears done so we had to wait 5 minutes. When she was finished we came in and there was a nice lady waiting. She made 2 dots with a marker on my ears and said I had "good lobes". Another lady came in they both used the gun at the same time. One of them got stuck in my ear and I got nervous. It came out and we could go home.

The next day my mum said her, my big sister Maddie, my little sister Emma and me had to go pick up some hay from Levin and it was about a 20 minute drive to the place. When we pulled up my mum turned around and said, "We didn't come to pick up hay, we came to look at a litter of puppies". I got excited and when we got out a man and woman greeted us and showed us the mum. She was a black and white with ticking (dots where she goes white) Heading Dog that was the slightest bit skinny. We went to see her puppies and there were about 6 of them. We ended up choosing a blue eyed one with a black patch over it's eye.

The second weeks Saturday we went to a park in Foxton , my mum, my little sister Emma, my aunt Helen, my cousins Brooke, Carter, Lachie, Finn and me all went. Me and Brooke made our own little obstacle course that was pretty hard. We went on a tight rope and a got rope burn on my tummy from falling off.  I then scraped my leg on a metal boat which hurt a bit. When we finished playing we found a spot in the forest and had a picnic. We played hide and seek and nobody won. Then we played tag and I bumped my head on a tree.