S. Create own challenge: Help out in community and with local businesses or injured people.
Last year I did a horse riding course at the Tauranga RDA - Riding for the disabled club and afterwards I decided I wanted to keep riding horses and work with them, so I went down to these woman down in Oropi who have 4 horses. One of the ladies injured herself at the start of this year so she hasn't been able to work on her farm or help her horses as much as she should or want to. I offered to help out around the farm doing any work necessary and in return I get to ride their horses and they teach me as much as possible. The lady Naomi was so pleased to take me on as she was going to advertise for someone like me to work with her recently bought ex race horse. I have been going round to the stables/house ever since. One day I was bucked and kicked off Naomi's horse, the horse hit me on the head while I was riding her knowing that I would fall backwards and then bucked me off the side. We then discovered that we needed to break the horse, not physically but retrain it and discipline it pretty much starting all over again. I have been lucky enough to met Peter Townsend a famous Tauranga rider and ride in his brand new arena. I haven't just rid the horses, i've spent plenty of days just picking up poo in the paddocks, cleaning the tack room, lunging the horses, feeding them, turning the electric fences on and off and also putting fences up and down. I keep planing on helping Naomi until she makes a full recovery and I will still help her because I have now discovered a passion towards horses.
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