Horse Trek

Today me and 5 other students went on the Muriwai horse trek that was organised by me and Nelle. I love horses as you probably know and that sparked the idea for me to organise this trek. I had already done the trek and had an idea of what it was like and it was really good the last time I did it.

We approached Daniel and our Learning Advisors about it and then started to get it up and running. We wrote our proposal and got that approved. We then started working on the costs and the students attending. For the 1 hour trek it was $60 so we decided we would do that one as we had already fun raised $140 from previous projects, so we could pay $20 of each students cost and they would have to pay $40.

The students who showed interest, got their names pulled out of a hat and 4 were chosen to participate. The newsletter was sent out and no parents were able to do it. Sarah then said she would do it and possibly mum too. On the day Sarah was unable to come and there was not very many people in the office so mum couldn't take us. I got a little frustrated and upset and then moved on by trying to find someone else. No one else could do it so mum talked to Lisa and she said it was fine if she took us. I was really excited so we all got ready to go.

We had a fun time on the way there as we listened to loud music and had some fun. When we got there we had some lunch and got fitted to the horses and started off on our trek. Since there was some beginners the manager and her helper walked the trek next to our horses.

We rode over the beach and through the forrest. We passed the area were Taylor Swift filmed her new video 'Out of the Woods' and through the country side. It was a great experience for all of us and we all really enjoyed it.

Reflection:
My highlight of the trek was knowing that me and Nelle had organised all of this and having the lady tell me I was a really good rider and that I was very good when talking on the phone. I am hoping for next time I do the trek it will be for Advanced riders so that we can canter instead of walking and trotting.

My challenge for the horse trek was getting the parent help because of the problems we had but we worked around them and had a great time!

My change for next time would be to fundraise more money so that no one has to pay and to send out the permission slip out earlier so we can get some more parent helps and we don't have to chase everyone up the day before.

Me on Floyd

On the beach

Through the woods

On the trail

Learning how to tie a
horse to a fence.

Javena on Jimmy

Mum on Skye

Nelle on Grace

Credits:
Thanks to Karma and the manager we have these photos.

Thank you Daniel, Kristyn, Elizabeth and Amy
for helping us organise this event.

Thanks to all the participants for making our
project happen.