As you must have discovered from the title, I started my work experience and I have to admit this is far from what I expected. I wanna open this post with the good things, though and leave all the disadvantages to the end...based on that this is going to be a very short post. So I get to spend my entire day around horses which is awesome, because basically that's what I ever wanted. I even get to ride them sometimes for like half an hour. To be honest the horses are great, I love all of them and it's truly a joy to spend so much time with them. I'm also lucky, because two girls I   know from school are there with me (Amber&Elmo) so I'm not completly alone in this. I guess that's all I'm grateful for now let's see what I don't like - and I have to warn you this is going to be a bit longer. My boss is  this so-called woman, Judith who's mostly with us all day. She knows every horse and pony and she clearly knows what she's doing. Truth to be told, everyone there does, apart from this young girl, maybe in her twenties, called Amy who tends to get into random conversations about herself and her personal life, instead of giving the correct instructions. By the way she's been riding since she was six and she also has a horse on her own. Other than this, she befriends these two girls in our age, who actually happen to be twins and I truly dislike them, anyway Amy's been hooking up with their brother and the girls have no idea. Maybe they do now, I'm not sure. So...yeah, Amy's definitely a strange girl and a bit of a mess. For instance, yesterday while we where collecting the horses from the field, she told us how she's sick of this place and been here forever blahblahblah. The point is she decided to join the army. Oh my, if only you could see how excited she was about this, like while she's been telling the others about her first 2 years of exploring the sites if there's any bomb and I was just literally standing there, holding two horses and thinking "If it's up to me she can go and join the christians or be a nun, I truly don't care." That's what I don't like about this place, the workers there aren't necessarily bright. If I'm honest they don't seem too educated either. They know how to treat the horses and how to muck out their stalls properly, but that's it. I know I'm not a brainbox myself, but hey, if I learnt anything during this week is that I do not want to have a life like theirs in the future. In fact I don't even want to be in that sort of environment or in that community. Don't get me wrong, I love horses and animals to the moon and back, but I'm still a girl. Not a girly girl, but I do care how I look and I like to be clean and feeling pretty. Now, honestly, when do you get a chance to be all that when you spend the whole day cleaning up horse shit,changing their hay nets and running around in the field to catch them or to lead ponies while happy little kids get to actually sit on them, while I'm about to collapse of exhaustion. It's so unfair. Ok, ok I know, I was the one who applied for this job, but I clearly didn't know what I was signing up for. I was really hoping for just a bit more horse riding. Is that really too much to ask for? What's worst is tomorrow I have to go back there and work my ass off, then do the same next week. I have no clue how am I gonna survive this. Wish me luck though, and remember - never-ever-go-to-a-horse-center-for-your-work-experience! No matter how much you love horses.