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[vervet_monkey]

Riding lesson today rocked! I know, I was all compliainy last week, but due ot mix up of bookings I ended up riding at the same place again, only in the intermediate lesson rather than the advanced. Which you really would have thought would have been worse. If all you do is trot circles in the advanced what could you do in a lower class? It was so much better. We did lots of really good working excercises. Circles and rein changes and transitions and she spoke to us and asked us questions and got us thinking too. She told us what we did wrong and when we did it right and I actually felt like I'd acheived something when i'd finished. We still only got canter round the outside of the school but she was giving instructiosn the whole time, adjusting it bit by bit, hands higher, heels down, half halt etc, which was really good. And we did a bit of lateral work, which i have never really got to do before and she explained canter as a gait and had us watching the legs while we were cantering. I was really impressed, its still a differant style of teaching but it is teaching. And then we had to watch the advanced lesson coz we had to give a couple of them a lift home, and there lesson was the same as last week. I don't understand particually but hopefully I can ontinue to ride in the intermediate but more complicated ride... if that makes sence, hopefully it will be the same next week basically.

Got 82% in my exam yesturday! Woot, go me. Strangely, although I have been given the results (they're computor genreated) the course head seems to think i haven;t taken the test. I personally think that getting 82% if i hadn't taken the test is quite impressive, but he e-mailed me to say i needed to organise a time to make it up, and when i e-mailed back saying i'd taken it and got 82% he got v confused coz as far as he could see I hadn't... hopefully it will sort itself out though!

Trying to do a 7 minute presentation on animal behaviour atm. Which i'm sure shouldn't be as complicated as i'm making out. So far I have 3.5 minutes. So I'm halfway there!!

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... so the intermediate class have a more advanced lesson than the advanced class... *baffled*

Oh well, I guess at least you found what you were looking for. Hopefully it can carry on like that from now on. It is a bit pointless for you to just be riding round and round in circles and being shouted at about diagonals. I think you've been riding long enough now to be a little past that point.

w00t! XD Congrats in you exam. It's even more impressive if you didn't take it ;) lol I'm sure they'll figure that out eventually. It's what you get when you rely on computers.

Good luck with the presentation.

Bexy