New experiences

There have been alot of new things that I have tried but today I tried that im used to but in a different way. I have been roller blading before, but I usually go into a bulding where the floor is swept, and knee, elbow, and a helmet are not needed. Today I wore all of those things, and I was not in a bulding. In germany I think everyone has the natural ability to use anything but a car to get places. They ride bikes, skateboards, they rollerblade, or jog to where they need to go. Today my host family took me to the rhine river, I was really excited because the biggest river I have seen for a long time is the platte after a rainy day, and even then its more like a puddle. So when we got there my family had me put on alot of pads like knee pads, elbow pads, and even a pad on my hands. I though it was ridiculous to wear these things but I still put them on not wanting to offend my family. I am not the best roller blader but I though that I could take anything. It was great at first, and than we got to the spot in the park by the rhine river where it was all downhill. Its not that im afraid to go fast, its im afraid of falling, and not being able to stop. So for 20 minutes, every 5 seconds I would wind up into the grass. My family was being so great and staying with me, even though I was keeping them all from going down their favorite hill doing what they like to do. Finally we made it to the bottom of the hill, and it was flat for awhile. The family was strolling along like they have been roller blading since birth, while I was going really slow trying to dodge every stick... and leaf :S on the path. Anything you could possibly imagine to rollerblade on we did, we went over a really creaky bridge, we went on rocks that made you almost fall ever two seconds, we went down hills... well the family went down the hills, i grew pretty fond of walking down the grass. We than went into Bonn, which was the point that my feet couldent take, I bumped into ever person, post, dog, and sign in that street, and my feet felt like they were on fire. Finally we reached our destination Pizza Hut. When the family told me that we were roller blading to Pizza Hut, I was saying to my self oh that will be easy and I love pizza hut, not only the pizza but the fact i can say the names of the food, but by the time we got there, I was not even all that hungry. But I still enjoyed the pizza :D, when we got back to the house, I took of the rollerblades and revealed a half dollar size blister on my feet, and that is not exageration. After that I crashed on the bed for about 15 minutes before we took another adventure into the unknown. My host family found out that I love to ride horses, so they took me to a lady who gives lessons. I once again thought to myself that this will be easy, and that I can ride a horse really well, and I can ride a horse,,,, in a western saddle. We got there and this lady was the top of the line trainer, she had horses from Iceland that she was letting me ride, and these horses were trained. She stuck me into an English saddle, and I was wearing here boots that were 2 sizes to big, because my sneakers would not fit in the stirrups. We got to going, and at first I was sitting in the saddle and it was fine, but than the lady stoped me and told me how I was suppose to sit in the saddle, legs straight and squezzed on the saddle arms forwards, back straight, and stomach in. Now doing all those thins at once, one a horse is not an easy task. I think I was sweating more than the horse, and this lady was having me do everything. I did was was called a Tiat, which is where the horses moves its legs really really fast underneath you and you have the reins close to your chest the the horses head is very high, and it is once of the most smoothes runs I have ever been on, I did not bounce shake or anything while this horse was running. I did however have a problem trying to kick the horse because you kick backwards which for a western rider is very hard, because im leaning forwards and when I kick back my body pretty much falls off the horse ´:D, I did not fall though, but it was a great expericence and the lady even told me I was not bad for never riding english, but for those who think riding horses is easy I would like to see you with this trainer because it was like being in boot camp because she was definatly a german drill couch, I swear it, because there was nothing that she did not have me do on that horse. It was overall a very good day for me, and I am still trying to figure out how she got horses all the way from Iceland, but the horses were really really amazing looking. I think I can also get use to English ridding, because it was one of the best workouts I have ever gotten.