Saturday, February 28, 2015

Horsing Around with Limglight

Another week has gone by with my 20% project. This past week I kept working on editing my, which I'm hoping to finish by the end of the weekend for another round of edits. I have also started contacting people for videos. So far I've got approval with the head polo coach at Cornell to shoot a video that includes an interview with himself, a team member going over the different shots, and a sample polo game. I'm hoping next week I will be able to do the video. I have also tired to contact  a local lady who wrote one of the official sources for hippology but I haven't had any luck with that yet. On Monday I found the contact for the Cornell Equine Hospital and I am going to try to do a field trip there one day. I'm thinking that they may have horses there with some of the actual problems that you need to learn about in Hippology. Tonight I am going to the local Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Cinema Saver to support Orion in his 20% project. He is writing an erotic novel and you can check out his blog at http://limelightlive.blogspot.com/2015/02/limelight-live-05-this-lime-is-rocky.html . It will definitely be an interesting experience for me. This is Juanita, one of the Cornell polo ponies.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Wintery Warmbloods

Since my last post I have gotten back my paper from the great Sir Reverand Knighted Dr. Morris and have begun looking at his corrects he has made and perfecting my letter. So far things are going well. Not a lot has gotten done otherwise ( I seem to be busier during break than I at during the normal school days) and currently I am at a 4-H shooting sports training to become a Jr. shooting sports instructure. And we are shooting in -10 degree weather which is not fun. Some of the training techniques I may be able to incorporate into how to set up hippology better. 

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Spying Saddlebreds

It seems like my project has a lot more of "stalking" and tracing down people then I had imagined. It took me a good 40 minutes to find a way to email one of the people who is on the national hippology board. I couldn't find an email for the specific person so I have an alternate way of getting the email to her. I found the 4-H county she works in and I am going  to send the email to that extension office and then see if they can forward the email to her. Crossing my fingers that it will all go as planned. I also gave the new draft of my persuasive letter to the one and only Sir. Mr. Dr. Reverend Professor Morris to give me some feed back. Things are going well. (Sneaky pony, Athena, pretending she's not paying attention)

Friday, February 6, 2015

Trotting Along

So far my project has been going very well with very little problems. Lately I have been doing a lot of planning for my letter and website. I now (theoretically) have a way to contact all of the people who are in charge of the contest at the national level and have started finding contact info for a list I composed of people that I would like to interview  for educational videos. I also looked into creating a website and I decided to start with creating one on wix.com. It's nice because it connects to my google account and seems to have a lot of options so I can lay it out exactly how I want it. I'm hoping this weekend to get at least the home page layed out and then start on some of the other tabs. I also plan on reworking my persuasive letter. Also found some cool horse tail braiding on my searches.