Personal Narrative: The San Antonio Livestock Show

One week before I was due to show my horse Bender in the county fair, my horse and I were practicing in the pasture when Bender accidentally stepped on a large rock, and stumbled. The next day, Bender was limping. A horse who limps in a show will be disqualified. Optimism instantly had to become a priority of mine if I wanted to heal Bender. I took special care of my horse, and stayed extremely optimistic that we would be able to compete in the upcoming county fair. This optimistic view of my horse's lameness lifted my spirits, and convinced me not to throw in the towel. The day before the fair, Bender had not limped once, so we were able to compete, and we did exceptionally well. Optimism should be a priority because it inspires, brings

The day began with an abrupt start. My alarm went off, and I was wondering to myself why I had set it to wake me up so early. I then remembered, today was the day I was finally able to meet and take home my new chinchilla named Luna. On the way to the home that had my soon to be chinchilla, me and my father stopped for breakfast at Chick-Fil-A.

I walked outside the next morning feeling great. The bright vibrant sun shone on the freshly mowed grass. I loaded into my sister's car and we went off to school. The day passed extremely rapid,

I took a deep breath as I walked my horse into the Greeley Stampede Arena. I told myself just to "relax." I loped a circle around the arena to make sure that my horse was warmed up and ready to go. He was ready but I was starting to get nervous. I stopped in front of the roping box to put my piggin' string in my mouth. I looked at my calf in the chute to make sure that it was number 33, which was one of the best calves out of the whole set. It was, and I was ready to ride into the box and rope my calf, or attempt to rope my calf. I began to get more nervous, more nervous than I ever had been at a rodeo.

because they were the cows I herded and without them I wouldn’t have a job

Everybody’s eyes were on me as if I was the only living thing for miles. Silence filled the air of the huge coliseum, so quiet that you could hear breathes of each individual. There were hundreds of people sitting in the stands. Even better there were thousands of people watching on the live web cam. It was a cool October morning, and the sun was shining brightly. I woke up and could hear the birds chirping, like they were sending me a sign that it was going to be a great day. The sun was not strong enough to beat the brisk air which was blowing. I had not slept well that night, nor any night that week actually. After all I was about to be showing at the largest single breed horse show in the world, the Quarter Horse Congress. I had been practicing that entire year for this very moment. I literally suffered through blood, sweat, and tears. Nothing in the entire world could stop me at this point. Even if there was a zombie apocalypse, I would slay them all just to have this very

Have you ever been in a situation where you didn’t think you could do it? Well I have many times and I’m going to write about a time during Rodeo when I didn’t think I was going to be able to do well in goat tying.

We’re driving my dad’s rusted out maroon 1978 Chevy pick-up with our livestock trailer behind it. Down Highway 20, we’re are headed to my favorite place in the world during the summer, the Sac County Fair. The trailer is full of my two older sister’s cattle that they will show at the fair this Saturday. Every year, the last week of July, we do the same routine over and over and I’m still not sick of it.

I went to the Texas Book Festival with my girlfriend. When we first arrived, I was not sure where the Texas Book Festival was, or where to park. After 15 minutes of trying to find a parking spot, we found one. In the end, we were there from 11pm to 2:50pm, in that time we explored the different tents and experienced Fany Gerson, a chef and Mexican author, make Mexican ice cream.

¨Hopefully I get a midget horse¨ I thought as we pulled into the ranch. As I opened the car door, I heard the thunderous THUMP THUMP of horses hooves. ¨Oh God¨ I thought as my stomach turned into a knotted ball. Soon we were greeted by one of the ranch hands and were taken to a dinky shed to get suited up and sign waivers. Then came saddling time. We were taken to the horse pen where we were greeted by the stench of horse manure. I spied out a smaller horse around five to six feet tall and hoped to get that one as my horse. Shure enough my grandma got that horse as she is the shortest. I spied out yet another horse on the shorter side and hoped to get that one. My turn to get saddled came next and sure enough, with my luck, I get the second

Five years ago at the age of 9, I had just started showing sheep at the Union fair. I named my first lamb Cupcake, I did not know a lot about how to show a lamb, but I tried. For my first show, I received fourth place out of eight lambs, most of these 4-Her’s had showed before. My uncle was very proud of me, when I received fourth place in my class. A week later, I was off to the New Haven Fair and I achieved third place out of ten lambs. About a month later, I was headed to Washington Town and Country Fair. On Thursday, I received ninth place out of ten lambs in my class. A couple of days later on a Saturday, we had to sell our animals. I sold her to a company named Ck Cranes. Once, he had bought my lamb, we took pictures. My

Feeling the rush of excitement as I find them and they all wave, hollering at me trying to make feel embarrassed. After that first look at them I then channel them out and I’m in full time show mode. There is nothing that could stop me now, everything is out of my mind now it’s just me and my cow. In the class we circle a couple of time and then he pulls us into the first line-up. As I watched the judge raise his hand to point me in the first spot of the first line sent a chill down my back. But I knew I wasn’t done with my work yet, there were still things that I had to do to make my cow look its best in the line-up. There have been many times when a judge has first had a different cow in first place in the first line-up than the final one. So I wasn’t taking any chances this time, I worked so hard to get my cow setup best and had her looking as good as she could. Then as he gave the hand motion to half circle into the final line a huge feeling of relief was put over me and I knew I had just won my class down at the state

Just another regular day going to Ms.Fiore about something that I dont know. Once I went inside the room ,she suggested to me,"You should join this fire prevention poster contest."I knew I was going to slack off on this poster and never finish, but Ms.Fiore said,"You could a computer."

It was a sunny morning in California,it was also my 15th birthday.I got out of bed and did my morning routine. I opened my closet to chose what I should where today, I found a dress that was white until your stomach and then was purple with a flow free bottom.I matched some white flats with my dress and headed downstairs.I greeted my mom “Good morning mom.” I noticed that dad was nowhere near by. “Mom where's dad ?” “ Honey something urgent came up so your dad had to step out.How about we get some breakfast from dunkin.” I nodded my head so we stepped out the house.When we arrived I ordered a glazed donut,mom got herself a chocolate sprinkle donut and got dad a pumpkin spice donut.We finished up eating and headed home.

This story is about how I won my last show. I worked extremely hard and it was my last show, so I wanted to go out with a bang. I explore the reason why I worked so hard and how it all paid off in the end. I started the fair off on the wrong foot with sick animals and ended up winning the show.