Polo!...(and I'm not referring to Ralph Lauren clothing)

I had a polo lesson yesterday. As in polo on horses. Ya know...where you ride around in the awesome helmets swinging a stick trying to hit the ball. Personally I've only ever seen it played in movies, so I felt sort of like royalty when I got on the horse. I actually got on the horse quite easily...getting off I got stuck halfway down and basically was laying draped over this big brown horse with my head crushed into its huge side. The instructor just looked at me and asked if I was alright....no sir, I'm not alright, can you not see my face is sticking into the side of the horse right now and i can't move? I didn't actually say that...especially since my instructor was a 23 year old English guy who I'd definitely pay the 30 pound weekly lesson fee if it were him that would be teaching the lessons. But he's not..oh well. Anyways, the other instructor there, an older man was describing the equipment used for the game. He was showing us the stick. Apparently that's what it's called; the 'stick'. To which he quickly added, "The Americans call it a mallet. They are wrong. The Americans are often...wrong." After this I started singing our national anthem. Only joking...I kept quiet and didn't saying anything naturally haha. But anyways, I've decided I do love riding horses...except when they move their head around and you can't control it and it looks as if they're trying to bite your foot off...that's not so cool. But other than that, the whole evening was very fun learning how to sort of play. We only learned to ride, and then learned how to use the stick and hit the ball...we didn't actually put two and two together. You have to pay more to come back for that...so I guess that will be the end of my polo career! haha. But I actually do have this new desire to buy a horse some day so I can just ride it around wherever I want. Yep.

Oh, random note...my New Hollywood Cinema professor is going to be gone for the next two weeks. Where's he going?? Oh yes, he will be in the audience at the Academy Awards. NICE.

Is it bad that when I type all of this, in my mind I'm hearing both English and Scottish accents say everything??? Oh no...