Riding Horse

  I’m going to write about the sequel to last story.

  I enjoyed riding horse very much on the day of short trip with my family. When I ride on Jerom, I felt refreshed because his back was high. I touched Jerom’s neck. His body was warm and smooth. I thought he must give me a wonderful time. My family took each other by cameras. The time of trekking by horse arrived!

  At first, we did warming up in a small enclosure at LAKE TOYA RANCH. Horses walk in a round line. The top of line was instructor’s horse. The second horse was Hanako and the third was Kimuch and the fourth was Jerom and me. I noticed that holding horse by the bridle (a strap which control horse) was more difficult than I had thought. My horse Jerom gradually walked slow and went out from the line. Jerom did not want to walk, the instructor taught me. (Horses always want to eat and don’t want to use energy to move.)  I think horses are very honesty. I could make Jerom walking by showing signals.

Here, I touch about how to give a signal for horse. When you want horse to go forward, kick horse’s both side of stomach. When you want to turn horse right or left, pull the bridle the direction you want to go. I taught I could do this well by pulling bridle lower and outside. When stop, you pull both side of bridle toward your body. The horses of LAKE TOYA RANCH were all smart and well trained. You don’t need to worry.

  After we became to be able to handle horses, we went to trekking course. The course went between trees! And there were many trees and the course was slope. Interestingly, Jerom always hoped to eat leaves because there were lot plants around course. He tried to eat leaves but I must stop it. Jerom looked so lovely when he acted to eat. The instructor told me, “Horses are like children. They are very honest to their feel. They always study our expression and try to eat or rest as possible as they can. We have to make them noticed that they are working now.”

At the first half, Jerom went away from my handling. However, he came to follow me at last. I was really happy, I could communicate with Jerom! Jerom was so nice horse because he could climb slope and could go bad mud ways. I am lucky to meet Jerom. Of course people there, too!

After we finished riding, Jerom and other horses began to eat. Horse is how interesting, I thought. Horses at there turned out into free. They ran, played with other horse, or rested. I looked at horse for a long time until they went back to their house.

We stayed at a hotel with a hot spring in Noboribetsu. There was good spa and we can see colored leaves from it. It was so nice. At dinner, I enjoyed it with my family after a long time.

Next day, my family went back home. Left by my self, I felt lonely. But I want to say them, “Thank you for coming!”