yesterday's lesson was so-so.

got KINABALU, and i can't decide if i should call her kina or balu. her name is JUST too long! and she's TINY! smaller than cupcake even.

warming up was okay. but her head was like UP UP UP. spent alot of time flexing her in walk then the minute i got her to trot. her head goes up again :/ gave up and went trotting all sorts of figures then zul came and started spraying the arena sand with water from hoses at the fence which i didn't know even existed lol.

halfway through i didn't watch where i was going and got in "range" and he SPRAYED ME AND KINA/BALU!! on PURPOSE! Predictably kina/balu shied and bolted for a few steps. i lost a stirrup too! i have to work on my feet!

after, we started to canter. kina/balu is stiff on the right rein and tends to like twist her head and "flex" herself to the left. this results in her going off the track and cutting corners on the right rein. she's okay on the left. zul told me to counter flex her. MAN it's no joke. my arms and legs ACHE. even so, i could only sucessfully do it in walk and trot. :/

halfway through, these rda guys started to move some plants and apparently johnny spooked ( i was too busy trying to flex kina/balu) and then kina/balu jumped forward and bolted towards the other side of the arena. jun and mimo beside us. We stopped after a few minutes, thank god.

then, johnny REARED! really HIGH! poor caro looked so shocked but she managed to sit. who knew the old boy actually had it in him? when he landed, all the horses took off AGAIN. When we all calmed them down and halted, which took forever, we all immediately dismounted. zul seemed to find it very amusing that we all jumped off right after. lol

oh and, i was so thirsty i broke caro's water drinking record. by one cup :D