Archive for May, 2008
Galaxy and Ace are best buddies and Ace has helped Galaxy make the transition from BLM Mustang to domestic life. You can read more about Ace and Galaxy on their...
I don't mean just you rode them in lessons every once and a while, I mean like leasing or owning. First, I half-leased a little pony named Mega- a cute buckskin with a funny personality. I stopped leasing him at x-mas when I got my pony (see below). Like my instructor said when I rode him for one day while my pony was hurt, "Look at that smile. She's back with her boyfriend." Now I own my pony (ALMOST horse), Maggie, a chestnut thoroughbred with the sweetest personality. She is my baby and I love her SO MUCH! <3
so, the working student in my barn is being shutdown, our trainer/BM/BO says that its because shes loosing too much money but many of the workers (3/4) consistanly do bad jobs while working, and every time they work my trainer has to speak with them. I am the 4th working student, and in a year of working for her i've only been yelled at twice (once for bad stalls, once for someone thinking i was giving a lesson and it was an insurance issue for her)
..... just about everyone realizes that the program is being shut down because people are either doing HORRIBLE stalls, or wasting shavings/hay or not doing turnout right, the list goes on...
the only problem with this is that i'm also loosing my position as a working student and i've done nothing wrong...
i'm trying to decide how to discuss this with my trainer, as i'd like to know if i'm being laid off because everyone is being liad off, or if its actually because she doesn't like my work
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do you think i should talk to her in person, or write her a letter/note thing?
i'm not a horribly confidant person and i really admire my trainer for what she does, so for her to think that i'm doing a bad job is extreemly hard on me.
any thoughts on the situation appreciated!
also, the whole thing is super tough on me because yes, i look up to my trainer, and i want to do what she does for the rest of my life, i want her to be my person who i apprentice for when i get my instuctors license.. i do everything i can for her to appreciate me as help.. but it seems like all my hard works gone to waste.
I've been searching the net for a pony wheel- the type of pony walker that you see at carnivals and pony rides. This type of walker is usually not motorized and I was thinking it would be a little cheaper than a motorized one...and I don't need a motor, anyway. I saw motorized ones by Centaur (I think) but they were several $K.
