The Barn

I have recently started volunteering at Conestogo River Horseback Adventures. I had my first shift and ended up at the barn from 7:30 am until about 6:10 pm. Let me tell you, by 8:30 pm I was fast asleep in bed, and slept until around 8:00 am the next morning. Barn work is hard work! I was doing chores such as mucking stalls, grooming, tacking, untacking, giving the chickens water and catching the horses and ponies. I also was helping out with birthday parties and giving pony rides (as in leading the ponies).

One of the really cool things about volunteering at this barn is you can earn 'bucks' for how much time you volunteer for (4 bucks/hour). After earning 50 bucks I can exchange them for a 1/2 hour lesson or an hour trail ride. I am pretty pumped for the whole experience. I get to spend a ton of time outside and the weather was beautiful. I am also learning a lot about horses, their behavior and their personalities. Learning their names can be a bit difficult but I am getting there.

I don't think I am going to be able to keep up with volunteering at both the yoga studio and the barn over the school term, so I am going to have to choose. However, right now I am really enjoying both and I hope to learn a lot about myself over the summer.