Horse Riding

As an activity out of school, my sister and I, along with another friend of ours, Flagot, decided to go for horse riding lessons.

I decided to take the courses because it looked like a fun activity to do, and because I love animals.

However, I have a fear or riding horses, so I wanted to take the opportunity to overcome my fear. 

As I went for my first few lessons, I was very nervous because I didn't trust the horse, but I still was able to do what the instructor asked me to do. After a few lessons I was able to trot with the horse. 

Unfortunately, on one lesson, my horse wasn't obeying me, and was behaving strangely. This worried me a lot, and I was getting scared, but carried on trying to do what the instructor told me. Suddenly, the horse takes me by surprise and starts galloping/cantering quickly. This scared me so much, I started screaming, to a point where I almost started crying. The horse didn't stop, until one of the instructors had to calm him down. 

Since then, I stopped attending the lessons. I find it a pity that I stopped, but I wasn't feeling comfortable riding horses, and felt like they could sense it. I also wanted to be able to enjoy the experience of interacting with animals. But unfortunately, this wasn't one that I enjoyed.

Even though I stopped, I still feel proud that I took the initiative to try to overcome one of my fears. 

Talent Show

This year, I decided to take part of the talent show. I wasn't able to last year because I was a new student in ISK, and I didn't feel comfortable preforming in a new environment, with new people.
However, this year I decided to dance with two of my friends Reggie and Zeeshaan. Two people that also share the same passion for dancing.
It was a really long, but very fun process. We were able to put many ideas together, with our different styles of dancing to create a  routine.
We stayed after school during many days, and even came to school on our break to work on our choreography.
I think that through this process, not only we learned a lot about each other and bonded, but also we learned how to accept new ideas, and work as a group in order to make things work.
I noticed that we could have used more time to prepare for the talent show, since we would get distracted a lot.
But in the end, we were able to create and learn a choreography, in a short time period. Unfortunately, we didn't win the talent show, but we had a lot of fun, showing people what we love to do.