Anna Meurer- #1

Just like a lot of the class I have decided to wait last minute to do my assignment. I'm not really sure what to write about because I haven't done anything all that interesting this summer, but it has been pretty fun even though it has flown by. I have done a few fun things, like go to Oklahoma. I went to Oklahoma in the beginning of July for the national rodeo that my boyfriend made it to. I didn't really know what to expect going since rodeo's aren't really my thing, but I knew that it would be fun, so I decided to go. We were there for what felt like 2 days because it was so fun, but we were actually there 9. When we first got there, we set up the camper and got everything together, but it was pretty much bed time so we went to sleep. We woke up the next day and just did the usual. We went and watched the roping's, which sounds really boring, but it's actually pretty entertaining. Then came the big day where my boyfriend would do all his events that he had been doing all year. He just ropes, but there are different kinds of roping. He does team roping, ribbon roping, and tie down roping. Which took me forever to figure out. Team roping is where two people rope the steer. The first person ropes the head of the steer and they are called the header. The second person catches the feet of the steer, and that person is called the healer. Ribbon roping is where there are also two people, but normally it's a boy and a girl. There is a roper, roping the head of the calf as fast as they can, because the faster they do it, the shorter distance their partner has to run. So once they catch the head, their partner runs and gets the ribbon off of its tail, and then they run back to where they started. Next is tie down. Tie down is where they catch the head of the steer, the person jumps off of their horse, while their horse works for them which means pull it back, the boy is supposed to grab the steer by its feet, throw it down and tie it as fast as he can. So that basically all of the events that he competes in, which sounds kind of boring, but they are actually fun to watch and I'm sure they are fun to do. This was basically all I did on my trip to Oklahoma, but it ended up being a lot of fun.