Gymkhana has made me see my horse, and the riding program in a totally new way. I am nowhere near being a good gymkhana rider, but the season has shown me how many skills I have learned this year. I finished the rescue race. It lended a sense of accomplishment to me. This season is more »
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Gymkhana!!
Yesterday my friend and I packed up our cameras and water bottles and jogged out to the Gymkhana field to capture gymkhana in action. As we arrived we waved hi to our friends, freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, who were boarded upon sweating and excited horses. Country music blared from the speakers at the far more »
And Beyond…
Just before we left for winter break I found out where I’ll be going to college. This sudden news brought an incredible onslaught of both joy sadness. I was ecstatic to be done with the almost year long college application process (a struggle you might be going through now) and the fact that I was more »
Sunday Morning
Four years have not yet taught me to make a good smoothie. Every Sunday brunch I try, yet my experiments in banana-strawberry-mango proportions never seem to lead to perfection, let alone edibility. There we were, all the same, drinking our viscous strawberry sludge on the Pergola while studying for art history, engrossed in our work, more »
Noting the Beauty
I can’t believe it. What? Look around you! I see shrubs. You have got to be kidding me! There is a common, unknown disease that many Thacher students often succumb to. I like to call it the I-always-forget-and-fail-to-notice-how-beautiful-this-valley-is disease. I, like many of my peers, have recently encountered this problem. Luckily, all it took was more »
Riding in the Sky
Sometimes we forget, amidst the day-to-day tasks, the beauty that surrounds us. Often we look past the sunset, spoiled by the countless number of them we’ve seen, forgetting how lucky we truly are. With all the tests and essays to conquer, it seems hard to really take a step back and appreciate the simple things. more »
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