Nice little story I wanted to share
with everyone. This past Saturday we went to a restaurant in the nearby town
which had just opened up (we had some inside information and a hook up from
another volunteer who is working with this town currently). The restaurant had
a pool and was in a valley of sorts with a river running next to it, it was a
very good location and very beautiful. Anyways, as we were sitting on the
balcony our waiter came and asked us if we wanted to ride some of their horses
(for free, they usually rent them out to the clients). Of course all of us
wanted to take advantage of this situation and so we all said yes. We have one
volunteer who was on the equestrian team in college so one of her goals all training
was to ride a horse; needless to say she accomplished this goal. The restaurant
had two horses that we were able to ride around the property with free reign;
most of the others had not ridden a horse before so this was a first time
experience for them. As for me I am very experienced in riding horses since on
a family vacation to Colorado we rode trail horses for two hours or so, it all
came back to me the moment I sat on the horse. I was able to get the horse to
trot a little bit but he would not go much faster than that, probably for the
best.
Another volunteer who shall remain
nameless was riding the horse for the first time; he was being a little
cautious and rightfully so. Well he got caught next to a tree and was not sure
how he was going to get out of the situation because if he kept going forward
he would hit the branches and he did not know how to go backwards. It was a
quite a predicament. Well he decided that he was going to grab ahold of a
branch just in case the horse decided to go forward he could hang on the branch
and not fall. As he predicted, the horse decided to go forward and so he was prepared
holding onto the branch however he was not prepared when the branch snapped and
he fell to the ground (It is okay to laugh, we all did and so did he). He got
back up to the laughter of just about everyone; apparently falling off a horse
translates into Spanish as funny too. Well after a few minutes of rehashing the
hilarious events that just happened he decided to hop back on the horse
(literally) and rode it around a few times. Just like the volunteer fell off
the horse I know that throughout my time as a volunteer I will have countless
times when I feel like I am doing something for the first time and I will no
doubt fall. The important lesson that I must take is that I need to stand up,
dust myself off, laugh at myself, and get right back on the horse.
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