Working at my stables!

I had fun working at my stables all last week (Monday the 9th - Friday the 13th)

There are camps that go on all summer called the RVC (river valley camps). These camps include games, and most importantly horse lessons the whole week of camp. There were 4 groups of kids ranging from 8-12, and every group rode for 45 mins to an hour every day. That means that the volunteers (what I was doing) had to bring in and take out the horses (to and from paddocks), groom, tack and untack, feed, and lead the horses. The kids were assigned a horse every day, and slowly were taught to ride. I led the following horses: (maybe some others that I have forgotten)

-Scarlet
-Breezy
-Babe
-Murphy
-Cocoa
-Blu

On Friday I wasn't supposed to work, but I decided to go anyway (as I love horse that much). In the first class I was leading Breezy (for a 2nd time), and we had a great lesson! Just before the next lesson was supposed to start, the instructor Lisa came up to me, and asked me to ride Scarlet. She wasn't listening to the kids' leg and wouldn't stay on the rail. She kept drifting. I was soo excited to be able to get on her! She was being such a sweetie, but it was also clear that she was way too full of energy. I took her through the walk, trot, obstacle course lesson. This was to teach her that she was supposed to listen during these types of classes. After the 2nd lesson all of the leaders got to get on the horse they were leading, and trot and canter them around. Since Scarlet wasn't allowed to canter I cantered Breezy, and he decided to be totally crazy. Then we got pizza for lunch!


Over all this experience was great! I hope I might have some extra days to drop in and help out. Even though we got really hot (it reached 42 degrees Celsius) I would do it again in a heartbeat!


Thanks for reading,

Ashley