Chris is back

Nothing much has happened since my last show, except tthat Missy has been given the week off, and I was quiet busy running my sister's stable yard and giving lessons to the more advanced students, while she was over in Ireland.

I quite enjoyed being the yard's manager, but I got the impression the grooms where rather annoyed about it. I was very specific on the tasks I wanted them to do as priority for the day, and how I wanted them done. I also checked on them twice, once before lunch and again before I had to give lessons in the afternoon. The head groom, who usually does what he wants as my sister does not really supervise her employees, seemed particularly vexed by me. In my defence, a lot of things that the grooms were doing incorrectly got sorted out, and the two new grooms seemed very pleased that I took the time to explain everything to them.
The yard also looks better, and more organised then it has in ten years... well in my opinion.

The lessons I gave went great. Even the annoying kids did well. I enjoyed doing exercises and taking the time to really change up the lessons. The students were a little apprehensive at first, but then things really started to click. Though they do admit that being called over to have their faults explained to them, was quite scary, but on the last day I was told my lessons were very interesting and fun.

I think running a stable yard and riding school suits me, but unfortunately my father bought my sister a yard, not me. And now Christine is back and I am back to job searching - sigh. If only she decided to stay in Ireland.

My sister had a great time in Ireland, but she mostly spent time in a pub or inside her friend's house drinking - she says there was a lot of drinking. If I went to Ireland, I would probably spend most of my time visiting museums and hiking around the countryside, but that's just me. Her trip was enjoyable, until she had to come home with Turkish airlines. They were delayed in Dublin for 5 hours because of weather, and then again in Istanbul again for another 5 hours due to technical difficulties. These things happen, but Christine said what made it worse is that they would say they would be delayed for another  half and hour, then just before the time expired, they would shift it another half hour on excreta. This made it impossible for her to relax, and try and sleep while she waited, because its too little time to try and sleep. When she was in Istanbul, her bags weren't there and about tow days after she landed in South Africa, after countless phone calls and inquirers, her bags were flown over from Ireland - they had never been packed and had been miss placed. All this inconvenience and never once an apology was hear from the staff of Turkish Airlines.

So now it's Monday again. Christine is back, hogging the PC to go on facebook and I am back to looking for work. The worst part is that I have work, apparently. I was hired to write articles for a very small payment and told I would receive my first assignment today, but its already mid-day and I have heard nothing. I can also not do anything, as I need to be home to write.

My Sister at their main hangout