As of Monday I only have two weeks left in Europe. The past two weeks have been more eventful and I was counting down the days until I get to see my parents this week.

On the Tuesday of my fifth week here I got to go off-property schooling with one of the horses, which is basically where you get to go to another location and jump school a pre-set course. In this case the schooling was at the Peelbergen Horse Show, the same place the hunter show was at I went to previously. The barn goes once a week for about two hours and it really gives the younger horses, and even the older ones, a chance to get ring experience without having to go to a real show. It gives you the chance to practice a show course over and over until its perfect! I think this opportunity is amazing and I wish we had indoor schooling like this in Canada.

We took three horses in one of the big rigs. I got to ride in the rig on the way and it was really cool ‒ very different than your typical truck-and-trailer in North America, but I almost liked it more. This specific rig can fit about eight horses and has two ramps ‒ one leading to a set of three standing stalls on the right and five slant stalls on the left, and the other at the back which leads to the slant stalls. I think it makes the concept of slant stalls a lot safer; it makes it much easier to reach any horse in an emergency than the traditional slant stall trailers in North America. These trailers also have cameras installed, and a little screen beside the steering wheel shows you everything going on in the trailer.

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