Story - A Ride in The Mountains

or "That horse doesn't want to go there"

One challenge can be finding ways to rest here. If you are sick for a couple days, somehow spending more time in your room hiding from children shouting "Salom" to you on the street isn't attractive. We as a team do get together for meals a couple times a week, like after our church service, but one of the best ways to relax is to go for a walk. Our team leader bought a horse a while back, and the horse is still learning to be ridden, so we took the horse out for a walk.

Sometimes the horse would want to go where we wanted, and sometimes she didn't. Sometimes one of us would lead her while another rode, and a few times if we let go we would have to run after her and catch the bridle again. At one point things were going pretty well and Marcus was riding the horse down the hill into a valley right towards a flock of sheep, and the saddle broke! And Marcus fell off. Slowly, and with his hands around the neck of the horse and his feet caught in the stirrups. The shepherd boy was amazed! What will foreigners do next? Marcus was unhurt with the exception of his dignity!