Tuesday afternoon (04/28/2015) : horse riding and english class

Horse riding

Live from the big outdoor arena (we can even call it giant: 120*60m) with sunny weather and hot temperatures!
French students were separated in groups of the same level (easier to manage for the teacher).
Two groups worked jumping, two groups worked dressage.

The horses for French students:
Quiça, 18 years, Selle Français (cocorico!!!!)

Egide, 5 years, Lusitano
Diestro, 8 years, Alter Real-Portuguese
Dotrina, 8 years, Lusitano
Berber, 9 years
Brincalhao, 27 years

The horses were prepared before the course and cleaned up after by the Portuguese students (very gallant!). Some French students were allowed to help a little ;)

In the jump groups, everyone jumped in line (22 horses in the course). 

                                

 

In the dressage groups, there were only the French students (6 at each time), and they worked "incurvation" and gait transitions and variations. 

Some French students were stressed and didn't understand every instructions in English, but everybody enjoyed the afternoon.

French students were surprised and happy to see that almost all males were full males - not geldings.

Mrs Faille also rode a horse in the company of Mr Tenente Manuel Henriques, but even when she's working in a different area, she always keep a close eye on her students!

  

Vohador, a 10 years-old Lusitano male, was her mount : she was litterally sitting on gold. Indeed, coming from Bresil, it can be bought for the modest sum of 80000€!

English Class

The official language of the project is English, so it was natural to assist to an English class with the Portuguese students, it's useful for everybody. There were 40 students in a classroom, each one with a sooo good level in English... we let you imagine the hard task of the teacher : it was an animated course. The teacher had a slide show about grooming.

The second part of the course was outside (to enjoy the sun!), by team of 5 players (3 French and 2 Portuguese) we had 5 minutes to memorise the different body parts of the horse - in English of course! The beginning was difficult, one Portuguese in the team of Grégory Tavira didn't understand the instructions. So he explained her very kindly "Stay here, don't move!" (we still dream to be all bilingual at the end of the trip!). Then the teachers picked a word (in English) and the first student to raise hand can write it on the picture in English, French and Portuguese (with a perfect spelling!).