Rob Bell

According to " Times " magazine Rob Bell is on the top 100 most inspirational people of 2010. Rob is the founder of " Mars Hills Bible" church, in Michigan, and has written a top seller book " love wins". At his church he tends to have a lot of younger people. Rob has also done a small series of films called NOOMA.I think this guy sounds cool and he should be one of the top 100 people on this list. He has done a lot this past year.

Gabriel Giffords

According to "Times" magazine Gabriel Giffords is one of the top 100 most inspirational person of 2010. Gabriel was a congress woman who was doing a speech in Tucson, Arizona when she was shot on the head. She was rushed to the hospital. This all happened in January, she is still recovering today. She is also the 3rd woman to be elected in Arizona to the U.S Congress

I don't really understand why she is concitered " inspirational ". The magazines doesn't really say anything except for that she was shot. I understand that she is having a fast recovery buti think these things are sadly happening everyday. So does that mean that if I got shot in the head I would be on this list. I think it is cool that she was the3 rd woman to be a U.S Congress woman but I don't think she should be on this list.

Barn update

So I went to the barn Saturday like I said I was going to do in my last blog. I went to the barn and rode two other horses and then rode sirocco ( the green 7year old STB ). I was planing on riding her for an hour just walking around and over different obsticals. I got her in the arena and didn't let her walk or look at any of the obsticals before getting on. After I got on her we started walking around not over any obsticals and she was doing really well. She was calm, listening to the hackamore, and wasn't playing with her tonge. They I started going over some of the obsticals. First we weaves some cones, and she did really well, I could feel her hind end really being engaged. After we did the cones a few time we walked over a tarp. Horses are naturally very scared of tarps but I have worked with sirocco and the tarp this past summer and she was good. We were approaching the tarp and she looked at it but kept walking and walked right over it. Next we walked through an "L" shaped line of ground poles, over some flowers, and over a bridge. I was so pround of her! She didn't stop at any of the obsticals. Then it started to rain and it was really loud on the metle roof. She is not used to the loud noise and shorted to get a little anise. I just sat on her until she quieted back down and then I dismounted. She did really well and I think this hackamore is going to work really well for her.

The barn

Last night I went to the barn with my mom and had a blast! First I rode a 7 year old standardbred mare that we got from new vocations a few years ago. When we got her she really didn't know how to anything. She was broke to ride but not really. So I tought her ground manners, to lunge, and then restarted her under saddle. Sence she was so green she would spook at everything so it took a long time to get her going well on the ground. Then I started riding her and she was always really nerves. Now she is still slightly spookie and nerves but doing a whole lot better.

So yesterday I got on her and hadn't been on her for a month or longer. I lunged her first then got on. For the whole time I have ever worked with her she always played with the bit. Yesterday I bridled her and got on and she was doing the same thing. So we hooked some other rains to the halter that we had under the bridle. I started riding with just her halter and she seemed so much more relaxed. Then we took of the bridle and halter and put on the hack-more ( a bittless bridle). She was pretty sensitive to it was was a lot calmer with it. So today when I'm done with this blog we are going to go to the barn and I am going to ride her in the hack-more. I hope she continues to do well in it.

Horse vocab :

Lunge- exercise a horse on a long rope so the horse circles around person at the walk, trot and canter.

Green- young inexperience horse.

Bridle- a head set that you ride in.

Rains- connected to the bridle. Rider holds to steer horse.

Halter- head set that horses wear when not being ridden.
** these are my definitions.

Blogger

Oh my goodness!! It is really staring to annoy me that it takes me literally five minutes to find my freaking home page so I can post a blog. Like really I don't think it would be hard for them to make the "dashboard" the home page after you log in. Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid thing??? I am fine posting blogs but not fine with trying to find the thingy where is say new post. I don't really think there is another side to this sense it is my problem. You would think after doing this for probably four weeks now that I would know how but... Nope I still don't. It had just really been annoying me and I couldn't think of anything else to write about Lolz.

I am also not sure if I am following people correctly. I will click on a blog and is says am friends with them but them on the home page thing when it shows all of the people I am following I don't see any of their blogs. The bloggers are blogging because when I go it there pages I see new blogs. This blogging website has just been annoying me a lot recently.


P.s I am very happy we have a 3 day weekend.

Kindergardener with a gun at school!!

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-houston-school-shooting-20110420,0,3686141.story?track=rss&dlvrit=104530

What is this world coming to!!! I think this is just horrible and sad that a 6 year old brought a gun to school. The fact that the kid found, had, or bought a gun at that age is so sad. How did he get the gun? This also affected two other kids. I wonder how those two kids feel besides in pain from getting hurt. If this happened to me I would be very scared. I think I would wanna be home schooled from then on. I would alway be on my toes wondering if anyone had a gun. From the 6 year olds point he probably feels really bad and is going to have to live with this for the rest of his life. I would feel so bad if I were that kid. The parents also probably feel really bad and feel responsible for all of this (they should in my opinion).
This is all just so stupid.

Kangaroo video

So yesterday one of my friend showed me this awesome video http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=81szj1vpEu8 .

Isn't that just hilarious !! Ha ha ok well I thought it was really funny. I am not sure how I would feel if someone was slashing me with water or kicking me in the water while i was playing golf but it is funny to watch. I think the people in the video thought it was scary or very odd. I think in the end they thought it was funny though.

I also really like this one. I do not like the part when the bat goes up to the ATM though. Itisfunnybut I think that would be really scary because it is money and would think someone was robbing me. Besides that one think is a good one too. It is probaly a bit scarier than the kangaroo one because it is at night.

7 year old plastic surgery???

Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/7-year-old-plastic-surgery_n_849156.html

This is an article I just read about a seven year old getting plastic surgery because her ears were cuped. I do NOT think it is an ok at the age of seven to PREVENT bulling. Maybe kids need to be taught how to handle bulling and told that it is not ok to bully. The percent of younger kids getting plastic surgery has gone up 30%!! It's not bad to look different, people aren't all supposed to look the same. Yes I do understand that some kid that get plastic surgery for medical reasons. It really pissed me off that the doctor said that he didn't consider this a cosmetic prosider really?!?!?! The girl didn't have any hearing problems or anything with her ears so I think this was more of a looks thing and not medical.
I understand from the mother point of view, that she doesn't want her kid being bullied, I don't think anyone wants that for that kid. I just don't think this is a good message to other kids.

Spring break 2011

Ok so for current events class we have to write 18 blog posts. So here we go..... Number 1

We were on spring break last week and I have been pretty busy. I gotout of school after first period on Thursday and then my family and I drove to Rodchester NY. My brother is going to collage at RIT next year so we went for orientation, so I got dragged along too. I was so bored when we were there because all I did was sat in the hotel and walked around with then which was boring too. My mom kept starting how quiet it was there, but she went to OU so of course it is quieter there. I am ok with my brother going to collage. I think it will be good for him.

We came home on Saturday and didn't get home till late. On Sunday my dad took me to the barn and I rode. That is really all we did on Sunday. My mom got sick so she didn't go to work on Monday and we just layer around that day. Then on Tuesday she was feeling a but betters we went to the. Barn for a little while. Then when we got home I started to pack and get ready for equine affair. I was doing a demo with the 23 yea old standardbred. Wednesday night my dad took me to the barn to volunteer for the therapeutic riding group. On Thursday my mom took me to the barn again to groom trobby for the following day. We bathed, clipped and packed everything up.

My dad had work so my mom and I met George at equine affair with the horse in the morning. At 12:45 I was doing a youth talk with Trobby about the breed. I was really nervous but did good I think. I rode her later in the day and she really didn't like the intact horses in the arena. We weren't going to be able to get anything done so we just left the arena. She was better the next day. In the morning she was in the petting stall and was really good about that and then sneeze good for the demo later in the day too. She was really good for not ever being in that arena until the demo. On Sunday we got to equine affair at 6:30 in the morning and took her it the coliseum sender that is a scarier arena. She wasn't so sure about it. Afte that I took her in the practice arena and rode her. Then later in the day we had the doom and she was perfect in the arena. After the demo we left the Ohio state fair grounds and dropped her off at the barn. Then went home and took a shower, did a few things and went to bed.

Monday was hell just because I was so tired, but overall it was a great spring break.

Here is a video of one of the demos. I am the one after the horse that jumps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiz8rxc0nAE&feature=youtu.be