Fun with Mum...

Well today and yesterday have been the coldest days of my 'American experience' so far! last night it got down to about -1C and during the day it gets a little warmer.. getting up to 11C and then plummeting back down as soon as the sun disappears! Well given these temps, we have had frost (much to my excitement) on the ground and everywhere else for that matter, in the mornings. I set out this morning with my camera on our hunt course and around the barn yard and took various pictures of frozen things... it kept me entertained for a while at least! ha ha ha.

Mum and I were feeling slightly energetic this morning and decided to go and pester Porkchop the pony, so we took some pictures of that as well.

I also decided to paint some poles this morning, however i think the mixture of cold and blonde hair is getting to me, because i painted poles last night and came to them this morning to put the second coat on, thinking they would be dry.... of course forgetting that they were FROZEN last night... hmmm i know... im shaking my head too!

Anyways, thats about it for now.... thought i would add a couple pics for everyone to see... will be sure to add some more within the next 24hrs... enjoy!



The Frosty Grass













The hunt course












The Log jump on the Hunt course

Another hunt course pic!

Mum and I being losers

Mum with Porkchop

Me on Porkchop... pointing at him as if i had something funny/useful to say! (te he he)

A Wormy situation...

So the last couple of days has been perfect sunshine all day, but today it looks like the weather had a change of heart and it has literally been raining all day. Arno and his (polo) friend Chuck have been trying to convince Mum and I that it is going to snow on Friday.... I myself am slightly skeptical of this suggestion but it IS forcast for a low of 0 Degrees.... so who knows!

Mum and I passed the time away in the barn today by worming some horses and ponies and then cleaning tack. I think maybe the horses and ponies drew the short straw (pardon the barn related pun) with Mum worming them today because it actaully ment that they had someone who knew what the heck they were doing so they were all taken back by the fact that they couldn't actually spit the paste out, nor rear out of the way... pretty sure some of them were saying "This wasn't in the brochure" as mum made her way through the 20 horses on property... although we did have a little excercise running around to catch one of the horses aptly named Mouse to break up the routine of successful 'wormings'... we finally cornered him and enticed him by telling him that it was 'Apple' flavoured... i think thats what really sealed the deal personally. te he he he.

When the sun is out, i have been dragging mum out into the rings with me to ride... yay for that... In other news, for those of you wondering, i have moved out of the Dormitory (yay) and moved into the Main House, into one of the guest rooms, which is fun.

hmm. thats about it. i think so anyways... Well, until next time my fun friends from down under... Be safe, stay cool and have WAY too much fun.

Catch!
xoxo

YAY for mum

Mum arrived safely on Friday night in the big apple and made her way to meet and greet us by catching Subway and hailing a taxi... she ses she did her best sex in the city impression for that! So all is well, happy to have mumsicles around and having lots of fun in the barn and sure to have lots of fun out and about over the next two weeks!

In other news... as promised, i thought i woud tell you how my day finished out on friday... managed to live through calming the horse down and ended up with minimal paint coverage... so all was well. we then left the farm and went to pick up mum and then went out to dinner in NYC to a japanese restaurant and had sushi... which i keep discovering is deceptively filling. anyways.

Mum and i are going for a ride this arvo so im going to get ready for that! yay.... catch!

A late post...

Friday 6th October 06
1:36pm

Hmm, so interesting happenings on the farm… first and foremost, mum arrives here in NYC in approximately 4 hours… which means she is somewhere in the west in the USA at the mo. Exciting stuff.

Anyways, a change around the farm will see no workers (except me of course) around the property, two of the other workers (that were doing ‘maintenance’ work) are headed to the south of North America (probably Florida) and the other one is headed to Europe as he was only actually on holidays in the US, visiting the other two. It’s kind of strange but probably no different to being a month down the track, when Arno was going to “let them off” anyways… I think it simply means to Arno that he has to finish chopping his winter firewood himself… lol diddums. Ha ha ha

Anyways, this morning we went to pick up seven of our horses that were grazing in a paddock far, far away (ok, only a half hour drive). One of them is a baby, well actually they are all babies, but one of them in particular hasn’t quite learnt to deal with life yet and totally freaked out about getting on the trailer, almost killing Arno and I in the process… scary stuff. Same problem occurred getting her off of the trailer, cept this time we were prepared and took some safety precautions in getting her unloaded… so my project for this afternoon is getting her to calm the bleep down and try and get her to eat something and be a normal horse, rather than a psycho kicking and bucking machine… wish me luck! Ha ha ha well by the time I post this I will have already done it/not done it so maybe I will add a little note at the end telling you of my success or lack there of.

Also going to attempt to paint some poles and we all know by now of my trouble with paint cans so I will also let you know how that goes.

I cant wait to see mum tonight…. We are having dinner in NYC…hopefully she will have saved room from all that er, plane “food” for a decent meal…

Ok, well I am off to go and try to not kill myself in the barn before we go to NYC tonight! Te he he he he…

Later!

Zufälligere Fotos

Ok, so i was in the mood for posting photos, so here are some very random pics taken throughout the summer! Enjoy...



For those of you wondering... this is what I look like, at 6:05am at camp.

















This is Marieke, Brenna, myself and Livvy, the night that the staff went out for dinner.












Me in the barn being a knob (nothing new)


















Pillow Polo team... FYI: yes, im the one in the middle!











After Pillow Polo...the gloves come off! (from left: Liz, Anna, Me, Brenna)












Me at 'Shop Rite' (like Coles)


















Jackson the pony taking me for a ride in the stall!

Im a Hippopotamus and I've got Noodles on my Back...

Ok, so today's title is a little strange... but there is a method in my maddness!... to your right is an all brand spanking new list of things to look at, under "Dan's Fun Stuff". I highly recommend that you take a look at the Noodley Hippo link... its going to be stuck in my head for the rest of my life... kind of reminds me of a certain ring tone i once had... Ring any banan.. er, bells? HA!

wow, ok well today the weather warmed up a bit slightly which was good to, um, feel... i also managed to tame the paint cans this afternoon, which was fortunate because im still picking sparkly purple bits off from yesterday despite my showers in between... YAY for me.

There is one whole day until Mum arrives and i am absolutely beside myself with excitement... also excited today because the food shopping arrived and there is lots of bacon in the fridge... mmmmm bacon..... speaking of which, i might go and make some... whilst sinnig about a hippo with noodles on his back.... anywhos

catch y'all soon!
xoxo

Escaping horses and paint...

Two days until mum visits! YAHOO! anyways, wow, Im so excited its not even funny.

The mother and daughter left with big smiles and Arno watched them with a big smile on his face knowing that he had just gained another camper for mother/daughter week at camp next year... which kind of made me smile.

Today, two of my horses (despite BOTH being injured) decided that the grass was greener on the other side of he road, literally! They somehow opened the gate latch, opened the gate (which swings inwards), strolled up the middle of the road side by side and into the driveway of the main property and began munching on the grass outside the dorms... highly entertaining! Also today, i had another fight with a paint can or two, again letting them get the better of me... however i DID end up a nice purple colour, which im now discovering has little sparkly bits in it!

Fun times are being had by all.

catch! xoxo

Just like camp...but colder!

This weekend at the farm we have a mother/daughter combo staying with us as a part of the bed and breakfast business that Arno runs in the autumn and spring. The mother is really nice and the kid is 10 (just - they came up here to celebrate the 10th bday)and constantly wants to be down at the barn "helping me" with barn work... in other words watches me doing my daily chores and then quizzes me on why i do each thing... highly entertaining for me, although i dont think she quite gets sarcasm just yet... oh well!

Im very excited that my calendary/board type thing in the barn tells me that there are just six days before my mum arrives in the big apple! i think Arno is etting quite excited about having mum here too... i think he is looking forward to having a 'horsey' person around to share horsey tales with!

anyways im still having fun although the other day i didnt end up having any muffins because Tom the Farrier said he was running late... Arno was also very sad about this because he also likes the muffins, so the very next day he came down to the barn and gave me box of cookies! te he he. SO the weather is getting quite chilly at this time of year, last night it got down to about 33F which is almost 0.5C in our terms. anywhos, fun times.

k, im guna cruise but hope you are all having funsicles, be safe and be happy! xoxoxox

Retratos...

Ok so here go some of the photos of the last couple of weeks... i will quite possibly post some more really random photos v.soon but heres the 'photo fix' for now. xoxoxoxoxo




Me having fun on the jet ski... not that you can really see that... i just think its a cool pic













Liz, Marieke and Me at the Matt Mays and El Torpedo/Brian Byrne concert













Marieke and I trying to climb onto the stage before the concert.













Niagara Falls














American Falls (which is about 50m from Niagara Falls... but on the American side of the Niagara.)













Me pondering life on Levi


















Iryna and I at the Hen night in NYC



















Iana and I at the Hen night

Just a lil' bit moody... te he he

Ok, well i wrote this about an hour and a half ago and since then the internet has redeemed itself and come back to life... needless to say im in a much better mood after the discovery! ...

Wednesday 27th September 06
8:03pm
Well just as my laptop problems are solved, the internet breaks down… FABULOUS. (excuse the sarcasm)… other technology problems happening this week also include a broken microwave, my mp3 player having a hissy anytime I touch it and also this laptop occasionally deciding to shutdown at random intervals and also choosing not to respond to keys being pressed whilst typing so I am pretty much slamming every key as I type to ensure that whole words come out rather than just random letters… so im having fun. (sorry im in a sarcastic mood… as if you didn’t notice already). Today was a pretty average day for me down at the barn, to give you some idea of what an ‘average’ day is for me, it involves rolling out of bed at 7:55am and being in the barn by 8am, haying the horses, haying paddocks, conjuring up an abundance of medicated grain for the breakfast of four sickly horses we have in the barn (all with leg injuries), graining the other ’normal’ horses and throwing several of them out into various paddocks. Then I muck out stalls and clean up the barn area and do random odd jobs like cleaning troughs or buckets or cleaning tack…. Today however, I gave Olga’s mother a riding lesson (she had never been on a horse before) and then headed up to the house for lunch. After lunch I drove the big tractor (which is HUGE fun) around our ‘top ring’ and picked up random stuff like standards (things that hold jumps up) and poops and anything else in the ring, so that Arno can drag it “tomorrow” (which actually means next week sometime.) Anywhos after that had some fun and painted jump poles. After several fights with many paint cans, I eventually came up with two decently painted red and white jump poles and one decently painted, multi coloured, me! I then brought all of the horses in from the paddocks and put them in their clean stalls so that they could spend the night making them disgusting again, and hayed and grained the appropriate horses. I then put on a trusty pair of surgical gloves and began ‘playing vet’ and tended to the leg injuries of my four legged friends, by scrubbing and cleaning sores, inserting my hand into a rather large wound on one particular ‘patient’ (no further details are necessary) and giving injections etc etc… all that fun and disgusting stuff. I then headed up to the house for dinner and burnt my finger with some rather hot oil, discovered that there was no internet, swore and cursed at the computer a little and finally came to my room to write about my day due to the serious lack of other things to do. Wow…. Im in a good mood! K, well I think its about time I went and did something productive and put myself in a better frame of mind… Tom the farrier comes tomorrow (which means yummy, yummy muffins for Dani… no im serious, he brings the most delicious ‘corn muffins’ – which are just frickn normal muffins as far as I can tell - with him every time he visits!) so im hoping I will have happier stories tell of tomorrow… like muffins… mmmmm muffins. Anyways I will stop rambling on about random food items and let you all get back to your normal lives…. Adios! xoxoxo

Im back (online)... and i have news!

Well what amazing couple of weeks i have had. Many of you have been emailing and threatening to do nasty things to me unless i updated the blog so here goes... (hope you are up for some reading!) So i last left you with about a week left o camp. The last wekof camp dragged on like was never going to end but it did... (surprisingly enough) and by the saturday afternoon, the property lookd like a ghost town... the dorms were finally (earily) empty and there were counsellors wandering around aimlessly, looking like lost little souls. so Saturday night after all the campers had gone, Marika had a party at her house which was also a going away party for her departure to Germany for one year. After Sunday most of the counsellors left the property for home which pretty much just left me and the kitchen staff from the specific group of summer camp staff.

I guess here is a good a time as any to mention the news that i promised from the last blog! Some of you have already heard the news, but I will be in the US for a further 4 months until late January or early February. I'm quite excited about the extended stay however i will be missing all of you at home but i can assure you that i think of you all everyday and i will definately be coming home after the 4 months is up!! This means that i will be missing out on chrissy at home and stuff like that but imquite excited for a white christmas and New Years Eve in New York City!

Anyways, so n the last couple of weeks, camp has officially closed down for the year, Arno (my boss) got married, which ment i got to spend a night in New York City and partied HARD for Olga's hen night. that was lots and lots of fun!

Ive also been on a one week trip to Canada and stayed with Marieke in a town called Guelph... its a really cool little town built soley around the University of Guelph. Whilst there, we got up to all sorts of shiznat. We went to a concert for a band called "Matts Mays & El Torpedo" and opening for them, was another Canadian ripper, Brian Byrne. Over the summer i have grown to love these two bands and i was so unbelievably lucky to be able to see both of them perform on the same night, one after the other! Anyways, so after the concert we were invited back stage and the bands bought us free rounds of drinks and we were all invited back to the after party which was huge fun and very entertaining to say the least! I also got to go to Niagara Falls and do all the tourist-y things available there. Unfortunately the week came to a halt rather quickly and i had to jump on a coach and make my way back to New York via Toronto, Buffalo, Syracuse and onto NYC (just incase anyone cares! lol).

So for about a week i have been working down in barn on my own and doing my horsely duties each day. I know ome of you would shudder at the thought of being alone for starters, and on top of that, double shudders for BARN WORK (which, yes, does involve shovelling shit for a portion of my day, each day)... but its actually lots of fun! im having some of my friends from NYC and Canada come and visit me periodically so i dont go any more insane whihc will be welcome break im sure. One last piece of news: MY MUM IS COMING TO VISIT ME! YAY! yes its true, my mum is coming to stay with me at the farm for two weeks starting in early October! we are sure to have lots and lots of fun!

oki think thats about it from me for the moment... i will be posting regularly now that my blogging dilema is solved (my laptop broke... MAJORLY and now its healthy again!). Sorry for the big gap in posts but i can assure you that i wont take that long in between blogs again... assuming everything goes to plan! photos ar sure to be up within the next few days!

ok, missing you all like crazy... keep the emails coming, i love hearing about everything from everyone! hope everyone is safe and having fun.

xoxoxoxoxoxo

What a week! (or two)...

So much happening in so little time. ok.... So.... in the last two weeks, we have lost little Marika to Spain for two weeks and gained another legendary Brit, Anna, who is 26 and an awesome polo player who now lives in the heart of New York City... little marika is coming back but will be leaving two days after, to go and live in Germany for about a year. I was also fortunate enough in the last two weeks to get to go to the last South Hampton trip for three days, the last New York trip and the last water park trip..... VERY lucky. i have also been for a few rides and been water skiing in between... thought i would share a few pics with everyone, of my last couple of weeks. There are only something like 8 days left of camp which is sad but more than welcome at this point in the summer... i have some exciting news for everyone but its going to have to wait until the next post so it is confirmed when i tell you all! ... sory for the tease! ok, hope you are all safe and well. speak to you all very soon...








Me on the jet ski in South Hampton











Me water skiing at White Lake













It speaks for itself pretty much... its in Montauk if anyone is interested...














Me in Central park kissing Jackson with Peri (camper) sitting ontop wondering what on earth im doing to the pony













The pic i stole from tavern on the green the second time around.

















Peri (the same camper) outside Tavern on the Green, seeing things eye to eye with the carriage horse named Jefferson.




More photos later guys!
luv you all

New York, New York!

So today i woke up at 4:45am to go down to the barn by 5am, to have the kids up by 5:15am, to have breakfst at 5:30am and leave for our day trip to New York City by 6am on the dot.... i made it!

So once we reached New York City, we walked to the corner of 92nd and Madison Ave (from the corner of 92nd and 5th Ave) to Cafe Yura, for a bite to eat and then went back to the trailer and unloaded the 7 horses, tacked up and the 12 campers went in groups of six, with Arno on a trail ride through Central Park. Once they finished the trail rides, we untacked the horses and loaded them back on to the trailer, and headed off to "Tavern on the Green" which is basically and over priced excuse to eat in a 'fancy' restaurant in Central Park... (they say its expensive and classy, i say it was expensive and tacky... 70's style fairy garden painting on the wall, different coloured chandeliers everywhere, etc etc), so the 14 of us racked up a $700 bill (including the tip) and headed out with a full stomach and a handful of balloons in exchange. We then went to the carousel in Central park and spent an hour there before we all clambered into white stretch limos and went to FAO Schwartz which is an awesome toy store, similar to the entertainment and size of IKEA but more so, as its a toy store... we spent 15 mins there and then jumped back into the waiting limos and went to the Manhattan Saddlery and spent half an hour walking around admiring the $2000 upwards price tags on the saddles. We then were dropped back off at central park and got back into our big silver van and came home via Maccas. Im pooped now, so i will maybe post more later about my day off yesterday etc when im concious.

ciao for now.





Park Ave sign












Broadway sign













Central Park trail ride













View of city-ish buildings from central park











The pic that they wanted me to pay $25 for at 'Tavern on the Green' ('Expensive McCrapperson's' as i like to call it).. so i took a pic of the pic over my salad (hence the lettuce in the way)... ps... i look like a giant whale in this pic... ive put on LOTS of weight (just incase you couldnt all use your eyes to see that!)... mmm FATTY American foooooooood......









Me entertaining the kids while waiting for the limo in central park




















NYC... Park Ave from the limo to be specific












Some funny looking 'Girths' in Manhattan Saddlery... FYI a girth is the thick brown thing on the far right... not the loopy things underneath the 'Girths' sign.. they are Martingales

More Pictures...

Here are the pics i was going to post before... the storm passed and then internet works once again! WOO HOO













Sophie and I being knobs













Sophie and I still being knobs













Marika and I on the way to the water park















Me riding KC last night












KC going THROUGH the jump (look at the back feet sliding!)

Challenges...

OK: SO....Today was my day off again so im sitting here and its even daylight outuside (which is a rarity for me) AND the internet is working which is also a big bonus. I started my day at 5:30am and got up to go to the recognised horse show in Old Salem. I figured that it was my chance to go to Old Salem (which is an AWESOME barn... eg the actual barn looks nicer than a house.) and to see Marika and one of my campers Sophie (an 11 year old superstar) compete, and because Marika was nervous so i wanted to support her and take pics etc etc... anyways, enough with the excuses, the point was that i got up early to go to the damn thing. So anywho, we got here and bummed around and Arno gave me some money for lunch which was awesome and i wandered around the gigantic facility and parked myself by the jumper ring for the day to watch everyone compete... unfortunately Marika never got to compete in the some 8 classes originally thought because her horse Apollo hit his already sore leg in warm up and became lame and her other horse KC (who is actually her dressage horse) wasnt able to compete because there weren't enough people at the high level she competes, at to go in the class! Sophie however (who by the way is really cool) competed and did really well competing against men and women of all ages and placing reserve champion. I pretty much took pictures all day with Soph's and Marika's cameras and a few with mine which hopefully i will get up on here later on.

My week has been an interesting one to say the least, I went to the water park as a lifeguard again on wednesday which was huge fun... however this session's campers seem to have a common theme running amoungst them... that they all have some sort of learing or social disorder... i have 4 children i am currently working with teaching them the basics of horse riding, all with some sort of learning problem... its a challenge but (this will sound corny) rewarding when you finally get them to do something correctly... i actually prefer it to teaching 'normal' children.... anyways, besides my lesson i have also been teaching water skiing in the afternoon which is also really fun. Ok, im going to go now and post this because in the last ten minutes it has grown dark and there is a big storm looming overhead which may interfere with the internet... so i will leave you with this single picture of me riding KC (marikas horse that i mentioned before) last night, when she was teaching me to jump properly... hope you are all safe and sound... would love to hear from you all.
Catch you soon...

Day Off!

Today was my day off, I started it, with a sleep in until 7:30am and got up at 8am, to be at breakfast by 8:30am (today was a late breakfast due to it being "100 degrees" and being the horses day off cos everyone freaked out about the weather being 'unbearable')... so, i had breakfast and bummed around doing laundry and such until about midday, when we all (being Liz, Marieke, Brenna, Marika and the nurse, Karen) decided to go swimming. We ended up at Minnowaska... or something along those lines, which is a lake, ontop of a mountain.... we pretty much spent the day there and then went to a really nice restaurant for dinner and had a big steak each which was awesome. when i got back, i found out that one of my campers (also named Danielle) broke her arm while roller skating today and has to go home tomorrow, which is kinda sad, cos she is a cool kid. Anyways, im having heaps of fun... yet another counsellor quit... Livvy left the other day in a huff, when it was announced that Brenna and I got to go to South Hampton with the campers and not her. ps. South Hampton was friggin AWESOME... South Hampton is a town, which is about twenty times the wealth of anyone in Adelaide.. for EVERYONE. All of the houses in the Hamptons are perfect and they all have straight perfect hedges around their property and the shopping there is only for those with money with such stores as Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Ellie Tahari, Coach, Tiffany & Co. etc etc. Oh and one of my campers spent just over $800 on shopping alone over the two and a half day trip... yes you read that sentence correctly... there was and eight with two zeros behind it and the word 'over' in front of it! so anywho, Livvy left, and today, Pip left aswell (however she has the intention to come back)because she has pretty much broken her back and has to have 4 weeks off.... so we are under staffed at the moment, but still having fun nevertheless! I have been struggling to contact people over the past couple of weeks, i have no phone at the moment and the internet hasnt been working properly... dont ask how but msn seems to work but NOTHING else on the computer internet wise like hotmail or this site. The internet stuffs up at the drop of a hat here, because we are so far out in the sticks so apologies to those who i need to email back and still havent. Hope everyone is doing great back home, please keep the emails coming, although im not reading them at the moment, i would love to hear about everyone's adventures when i finally get some normal internet service! have fun and stay safe!

Me playing my barn guitar

From Left: Marika, Liz, Marieke, Me, Brenna

Marieke and I at the lake












Brenna and I in South Hampton
















Arno playing polo













South Hampton hotel, which was really in Montauk

Fun Didely Fun...

So incase you are wondering "what happened to Liz's horse" (re: the comments in my last post)... Movado had to be put down after a 12 hour struggle and unfortunately Liz was in Canada at the time, which left me in charge of the barn and her colicking horse. The Vet eventually came at 10:30 in the morning and put Movado down, and Liz asked me over the phone to go with Mov to put him down and say goodbye to him for her... so Saturday was a VERY emotional and tiring day, especially as I had to keep a brave face for the campers for the rest of the day... details are missed but you get the main idea. The last couple of days have been a struggle but i have made it through with a smile on my face and managed to spread it to the others around me. Today i had a break from the barn and was sent to the Water Park as a 'lifeguard' (because the 3 milion lifeguards at the water park werent enough) and had fun with the kids going on all of the rides and tomorrow im plaing lifeguard again at the lake all day and teaching people to water ski which shall be fun. I also got to teach tennis the other day so im happy. Camp is really really fun. All of the girls are realy swet and yes, they are really rich... infact one of the girls was telling me the other day that her dad bought her an $8000 antique rocking horse because she wanted it! But despite their wealth and some of their mannerisms/ignorance (eg. one of the girls didnt know how to catch/tack up/groom a horse because she has people do it for her and others dont say please or thank you) they are all realy cool, and willing to learn. I'm really learning alot here as well. The last three days have been birthdays here at camp, Marika, aka "little Marika" (not Marieke aka "Big Marieke") Had her birthday on the 3rd of July, Independance Day on the 4th (whihc we caled America's bday) and today was Brenna's birthday, so we have had alot of 'happy birthday singing going on.














Clockwise: Livvy (with real glasses), Claire (who was fired), Pip (who was not fired), Me and Nicola (who left/was fired-ish)















Campers (for second session) and some of the counsellors (labelled)

Wednesday...

Wednesday 27th June 06 10:52pm

Feeling a bit tired and run down today, but spirits are still high. Had a big, big day in the barn. Every Wednesday is ‘the horses day off’ so the campers are taken off the property to bowling or the movies etc and we do barn work such as gutting and airing stalls and washing saddle pads etc etc. So this morning started out just great… we got to sleep in til 8am, had breakfast at 8:30am and headed down to the barn at 9:00am. Because the horses are not being used, Liz and Marieke take every Wednesday off too and of course today had to be one of the days that other barn staff had off as well… with that background information in hand, I can continue my story: Anyways, so I headed down to the barn at 9am and began our morning routine and got things going and I got to play Barn Manager for the day… The farrier came and began his work on the ponies. We had 6 staff working in the morning and I was aware of the fact that one was leaving after lunch to go roller skating with the campers which would leave us with five workers after lunch… four working and one holding horses for the farrier. So lunchtime came around and everybody went up to lunch, except for me who stayed and held horses for the farrier. After lunch, TWO workers came down and told me that the other two were in a meeting with Arno and would be down afterwards. About an hour later, the two girls returned in casual clothes (not the usually dirty barn clothes) along with another counsellor and stated that they were leaving camp immediately. So that left us with two people (and one holding horses) running a barn with 50 horses and ponies! So that is probably why I’m a little exhausted, but it’s ok because I have a day off tomorrow so I can sleep in a little, although, now due to the fact that THREE counsellors quit this afternoon, I’m looking after three dorms of campers because we are still short staffed from the two that were fired last week, which is actually ridiculous. So maybe I will have to get up and work in the morning to help get everybody up for breakfast and then go back to sleep. I also have to move rooms tomorrow because I’m looking after the three dorms (one of them is my original dorm and one only has two girls in it) I need to be in a more central position so that they can all access me if they need. Anyways, I have no Idea what the time is but I’m going to bed. There is no internet access at the moment so im hoping that situation will change by tomorrow when I actually have time to check my emails etc. Ok, bedtime…