Horse Ridding

The last two months I have tried a completely new sport for myself. I was learning the very basics of horse ridding for about a months. Then I tried to develop it further on, and I am still trying as I have not given up this activity.

There were some complications with the process due to the fact that I have a childhood fear of dogs and horses. When I first sat on one, I was to scared to do any exercises. However my coach helped me to overcome this difficulty by frequently jumping of and falling down from the horse when it was moving. Also I the coach told me to side on the side or backward on the horse. At the end of this "torture" I was not scared at all of simply ridding the horse, sitting properly.

To show what I looked like on the horse at the end of my 5th lesson I took a video of myself. On the video, it looks like a simple exercise but it was really difficult for me to get to the stage where I could ride the horse myself without a coach holding the head of my horse.

The video can be seen from the link below:
http://cs534223.vk.com/u136140543/videos/e64b761e53.240.mp4

Chess Club

Chess Club in our school was held by Mr Crib, who was my economics teacher. I found it very easy to integrate into the atmosphere of the club as everyone was welcoming me.

Basically, for 3 weeks I attended the chess club and showed the chess theory to the students. I have learnt this theory when I was a child, as I used to attend chess courses I felt myself confident in it.

As the result, students can now apply this theory when playing with each other. Basically it consists of a plan of using the figure "queen" right from the start of the game. They found it very useful, however obviously, it will not work with pro-players.

Playing Piano

The last term I have been learning two compositions. I have chosen to learn two songs from the movie "Twilight", because even though I did not like the movie, I found out that it is full of amazing melodies.

As I have posted before, I was practicing almost every second day and it took me about two weeks to learn the compositions and about two weeks of rehearsing and adjusting the music played emotionally.

Right after my last IB exam I have showed the result of my work to my IB coordinator Mr Parker. He was truly satisfied with my music and at the end I was very pleased from his compliments.