i LOVE the wall! so pretty yes? painted by jun daph frances chun fei and moi.

YAY for the (non-existant) btsc art comm! :D

sue told us that chuckie had a shock when he saw it (poor boy) and songkla was even worse. suchi ahmad ,who happens to be a VERY good rider, was riding him and couldn't even get him to get past the wall. :P in fact most of the horses haven't got used to it yet...

[edit] we also got really different reactions from the homo sapien inhabitants of the club. the most hilarious? some of the syces wanted to know why the riders on the pic didn't have noses or eyes or ears. one of them was like "ai-ya! like that how to ride properly?" lol. [/edit]

we are on was quite ok with it though. he walked past it without even flicking an ear at it. i'm quite thankful for that cuz i completely forgot about the horses' reaction to the wall and was adjusting my stirrup as we walked past. thank god he didn't bolt!

lesson was superb! we did open order the ENTIRE lesson. jun had little red and dawn got magic. exactly like the 2nd day of pony camp... wonder if that was what sue was thinking?

when we were just beggining, sue noticed we were all riding chestnuts AND we were all lined up in order of height (of the horses). and she laughed and said: "LOOK! daddy horse (points at magic) mommy horse (points at we are on) and BABY HORSE! (points at little red)" it was SOO funny! esp the way she said it. then halfway sandra came up to school bea and sue told her. then she realised bea was chestnut as well and so bea became mommy horse and we are on became brother horse.

"SO AH-DORABLE!!" ;)

[edit] i just realised when bea 1st came sue said she was chuckie's wife! *scandalous look of horror* [/edit]

we mainly concentrated on flexing. we are on was terribly stiff at 1st and EXTREMELY heavy on the forehand. sue told me to flex and half halt upwards instead of towards me. it worked, but only in circles :/ must work on that.

canter was TERRIFIC though. his canter is like... slow and it seems as though he's going to canter on and on and on really slowly and nicely. so fun! he got heavy again in it but he was on the bit so it kinda made up for that.

i can't wait for next week's lesson :D

[one-more-edit-at-dawn's-request] way way after lesson and that little shopping spree at the tack shop, me and dawn were happily strolling around the stables crunching ice in blue cups we "stole" from the cafe :P (we returned them!) we saw sue and sandra washing down we are on. turned out that the poor boy was a tad colicky! but sue said it had nothing to do with me (whew!) and he sometimes gets like that so it's no worry. and he was fine after being hosed down by sandra :)

oh and dawn showed cowwgirl penny her new socks! cow print ones from the frankfurt international airport. penny was munching away at her hay when we got there and dawn poked her foot under the bar and went "PEN-NEH-LOP-EEE! look at my socks!" i burst out laughing so hard that tikki (next door to penny) looked over. penny couldn't care the least and kept chewing her hay and not paying us the slightest attention. haha! maybe we can try again this thurs dawnie? [/one-more-edit-at-dawn's-request]