english: sports

My favorite sports moment

My favorite sports moment is sort of weird and unusual. It’s not when my favorite athlete or team won an important game, nor was it when I scored a game. It was when I was still riding horse dressage.

It happened a few years back, when I was about twelve years old. On the schedule horse dressage was next and we were just finished with grooming the horses. I loved (still do) horse dressage, so I was very excited about it. We started warming up, everything went great and I was laughing with the others, just goofing around. So we started doing our exercises or “tricks” as I like to call them and I was done with four of five. I started doing the last one, something I liked to call the bow. It’s when the horse is bowing with his front legs, almost as if he is praying. So my horse, Manchester, was doing great and my teacher was thrilled, because he usually wouldn’t do that with anyone (It was my first time riding Manchester). And just when she said “nice work, Vilde” Manchester sat down as a dog. I was totally taken by surprise and I didn’t know exactly what to do. The look on my teacher’s eyes as the horse laid down on his back, with me on, was hilarious!

So he laid down on his back and started rolling around, over me. I was in shock, just lying there being rolled over. Then he got up and started running around. My teacher ran towards me and helped me up, she was very upset. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to cry or laugh. I was in no pain at all, so I started laughing. And laughing and laughing. In the sand where he had rolled, was a print in the sand, looking just like Donald Duck. I got my a hold of my horse and went back to riding.

I don’t know exactly why this is one of my favorite sports moment, but I think it’s because it was just so funny and I was taken by surprise. What made it even better was the Donald Duck mark in the sand and the look on my teacher’s face. I’ll never forget it.

english: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

We've been reading a novel named The Curious Incident of the Dog n the Night-Time the past few weeks and during the class conversation we were given some questions, where we were suppose to choose one of the questions. Here is my answer:

Why did you like/dislike the book?

I didn’t like the book, mainly because it’s just not a good book. The story itself is great, but it’s not a book I’d pick up to read, let alone continue to read after the first 50 pages.

The author has done a good job doing his research about Asperger syndrome and he describes Christopher’s mind very well, but the book itself – not good. My mind got tired after the first ten pages after having to read every page over and over again just to understand what he meant. Yes, I know that Christopher always explains why he is thinking this and that, but I found it exhausting and confusing instead of helpful. Also I don’t have Asperger syndrome so it’s hard for me to understand why he acts like he does, even though the author tells me exactly why and still I can’t relate to him what so ever.

One of the other reasons I didn’t like the novel is the characters. I don’t like Christopher’s mother’s character because she is childish, selfish and still she believes she has the right to barge into his life, just because she wrote him letters – as if that should make up for her leaving. She could have called, visited and so on. Another character I dislike is his father, or it’s sort of a love/hate relationship I’ve got with this man. He loves Christopher very much and he puts up with all of his madness, but still I can’t get over the fact that he killed a dog just because Mrs. Shears was tired of him, lied about it and told a child that his mother was dead (when she wasn’t.) I can see that he thought it was easier, but in my book that just makes you weak.

All in all, the story and the concept is good, it’s a good description of how a person with Asperger syndrome thinks and deals with different situations, but it’s not a good book; it was exhausting to read, difficult to keep up with all the facts and the story itself is kind of boring. Therefore my conclusions is that I didn’t like it.