Suzie's Journal

Learning how to be an eventer in 6 days is tough work. My trainer and I went down to Galway Downs to school Ed. Man, was he good. I definitely felt the mental "oh dear, these jumps are solid, I must be super duper extraordinarily precise or else Ed and I are going to have a rotational fall - I've seen the pictures!" But, after a while, I realize picking and picking to a distance was extremely counter productive and I started to ride like a cross country course should be ridden....

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As the title says, I had my third dressage lesson ever today. The first one was with Sonja Vracko and that wasn't very productive since I didn't even know how to sit in a dressage saddle. The second one was with Gina Miles. I did alot better there and picked up a few good tips, but still I was definately in need a learning how to sit in a dressage saddle.

Now I feel as comfortable in a dressage saddle as in a jumping saddle. This means that I can actually work on stuff....

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Wow - it's been such a long day. I stayed up till 2:00am last night writing last minute essays for classes and then woke up at 6:00 am to start packing for the move home.

My mom came up with the truck so that we had plenty of room for dorm stuff and horse stuff (more horse stuff than my own ). We had everything packed up by 12:20, which was perfect since the hauler was supposed to be there around 12:30. So, we were waiting a bit and finally got a call from her around 12:50. ...

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Yay... I'm done with finals. So incredibly relieved. Yesterday hurt. I had 3 different finals in 6 hours.

It started off with swine. The first portion was identifying diseases, their type, and the infectious agent that causes them. Can you say isospora suis or actinobaccillus pleuropneumoniae? It's okay, I can't either. It was then followed up by 3 essay questions. Each of them were beefy. The topics I had to write on were biosecurity and All-In-All-Out, protein quality in...

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Three tests... Six hours... go.

(Wish me luck! Two of these tests are borderline A's! Eeek!)

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