As a young child who grew up in the countryside, I’ve always been surrounded by nature and animals. I was born and raised on my grandparent’s old dairy farm in Glenburn, North Dakota. My mother and I didn’t stay there for very long; we had to move often due to her job as a dental hygienist. It was difficult for me to leave all of the friends I made and transfer to new schools, but I adjusted to the new lifestyles fairly quickly once I got used to doing it numerous times. We stayed in an apartment in Fargo, North Dakota until I got into the third grade and then made our home in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Upon reaching the fifth grade, my mother and I moved back to Glenburn and lived on the farm with my grandfather once again. While I was there, I helped my grandfather raise pheasants, chickens, ducks,
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Each morning I would wake up early to feed the animals with him and clean their pens. We would also drive a four wheeler out to the nearby forest to fill the deer feeders with corn and grain since he liked to keep the deer around for the hunting season. I talked him into helping me build a horse stable at the farm one day because it has been my goal to raise horses in the future with my cousin, Meghan. Each summer while I was in middle school I would go to a Christian program called Shepherd’s Hill at the Cross Crossroads for their horse camp for one week. I had to work my way up each year from the beginner level, to the advanced level, and, lastly, to the final experienced level. In the beginner’s class us horse campers learned all of the different grooming tools that could be used on a horse and how to trot once we began going on trail rides. The advanced level was more entertaining because I already learned the basics of horse care and was able to move on to trying out the
Each morning I would wake up early to feed the animals with him and clean their pens. We would also drive a four wheeler out to the nearby forest to fill the deer feeders with corn and grain since he liked to keep the deer around for the hunting season. I talked him into helping me build a horse stable at the farm one day because it has been my goal to raise horses in the future with my cousin, Meghan. Each summer while I was in middle school I would go to a Christian program called Shepherd’s Hill at the Cross Crossroads for their horse camp for one week. I had to work my way up each year from the beginner level, to the advanced level, and, lastly, to the final experienced level. In the beginner’s class us horse campers learned all of the different grooming tools that could be used on a horse and how to trot once we began going on trail rides. The advanced level was more entertaining because I already learned the basics of horse care and was able to move on to trying out the