Triple A Academy (An Equestrian Story)

Off to School

((This is going to be short, I promise I'm working on making these chapters longer!))

        Eventually the time had come for us to take my new horse on the trailer and off to Animal Ark! I hadn’t even ridden her yet, but I had come up to the barn almost every day to lunge and love her. Luckily she was an easy loader, and without any hesitation she loaded on the trailer and we were off! I was squealing with excitement at this point, I had my very first horse and she was going to school with me! Could it get any better? After a long 2 hour drive we finally reached AAA and I jumped out of the truck just as fast as I could. “Slow down there Allie, you don’t even know where she’s going yet!” He was right! In a flash I was off to find Mr. Carter, who I assumed my parents had told all about my new horse. Of course, I was right, and he was standing in the barn waiting for me with a grin on his face. “Congrats on the new horse! Come up with a name for her yet?” I sighed and shook my head. “Nope. Do you know where my stall is and who im turning her out with? She’s getting antsy in the trailer.” He laughed and pointed to a stall a couple rows down, with a big red ribbon on it. “She’ll go out with Q, the big black horse you’ll see just outside your stall.” I grinned and skipped off towards to trailer so that I could let her run around outside and meet the infamous “Q”.

        She happily and eagerly came off the trailer, and after a short walk through the barn and a quick sniff by her stall, she was outside with her new buddy. Q was a handsome black gelding, DWB for sure. He had 4 knee-high white stockings and a big blaze on his face, was he ever gorgeous. Not more than my horse though. She was the prettiest horse in the world from my perspective. They ran around together for a while before settling down too munch on some grass. I laughed and walked away, only to find my dad had already brought all my tack into the barn. As if the horse wasn’t enough, my dad had also bought me an incredibly nice saddle and bridle, and every other piece of tack I felt I needed. What can I say, I wanted to spoil her rotten. Once I had placed all my things neatly in the boarders tack room (which was b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l by the way) I walked back to the truck so that my dad could drive me to my new dorm.

        I was in dorm B, room 13. I got out my key and unlocked the door, a little surprised to see my new roommate already there unpacking her things. She turned around to see who was there, and once she noticed my luggage, she realized I was her new roommate. "Oh hey! You must be my new roomie, Alison right? I'm Amber, welcome to Triple A!" I smiled and laughed "Yep that's me! Although I prefer to go by Allie if you don't mind. I went to the normal school last year but this is my first year in the equestrian program, so that would explain why we've never met before". She nodded her head "Oh sorry, no problem Allie! We're gonna have a blast this year. But time for chit-chat later, I've been waiting for you to get here to decide, which bed do you want!!" I shook my head and replied "Oh doesn't matter to me, whichever one you want." I could tell we were gonna get along just fine.

"So, do you have your own horse here?" I heard Amber ask from across the room. "Yea! I just got her as an early birthday present, im SO excited! She doesn't have a name yet though, I still haven't decided". We carried on unpacking until our suitcases were empty and we were ready to decorate the dorm. We agreed on a Green/Blue/White kind of themed room, since my fav colour is blue and hers is green, and got right to work redecorating. 

After about an hour of work our room was finally complete and we were both super happy with it. The only thing we had left to organize was our riding stuff which we quickly unpacked. The manual I got before school started told me everything I would need, which included at least 6 polo shirts, 6 long sleeve rpolo shirts, 7 pairs of breeches (5 schooling, 2 for shows), and 2 pairs of tall boots (again 1 for showing, and 1 for schooling). I had gotten most of my stuff brand new before school started and I was super excited to wear my new clothes!