Amy and Amber E-Book

Kelly McKain

• Herausgeber: Little Tiger Press
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Serie: Pony Camp Diaries
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Seitenzahl: 58

Beschreibung

Saddle up for a week in pony paradise! At Sunnyside Stables, each girl gets her own pony to look after and ride for a week. When Amy heads off to Pony Camp, she expects to spend the week in her best friend Kayla's shadow, as usual. But when she's asked to make a video about Sunnyside Stables, she suddenly finds herself in the limelight. With gorgeous pony Amber to look after and all the girls keen to help with the film, Amy finds that she's really enjoying herself. But it turns out Kayla isn't keen on sharing Amy. Could Amy's newfound confidence mean the end of their friendship?

Leseprobe

For all you fab Pony Camps fans, with love xxx

With special thanks to our cover stars, Chloe and Nutmeg, and our brill photographer, Zoe Cannon.

www.kellymckain.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Entry One: Monday morning – quickly scribbling this – we’ve just arrived

Entry Two: After lunch

Entry Three: I’m in bed! It’s the first chance I’ve had to write in here since lunch!

Entry Four: Tuesday – we’re off in a minute!

Entry Five: Tuesday, hanging out in the kitchen after tea

Entry Six: Wednesday, just after lunch. Kayla’s in a mood with me and I don’t even know why!

Entry Seven: Wednesday, before tea. What an afternoon!

Entry Eight: Wednesday – after lights out, writing this in bed by torchlight

Entry Nine: Thursday after lunch

Entry Ten: We’ve got some free time before tea, which we’re using to dry off and catch up on our diaries.

Entry Eleven: Friday morning, in bed!

Entry Twelve: Friday, back at home I just want to finish off this diary before I forget anything!

Copyright

THIS DIARY BELONGS TO

Dear Riders,

A warm welcome to Sunnyside Stables!

Sunnyside is our home and for the next week it will be yours, too! My husband Johnny and I have two children, Millie and James, plus two dogs … and all the ponies, of course!

We have friendly yard staff and a very talented instructor, Sally, to help you get the most out of your week. If you have any worries or questions about anything at all, just ask. We’re here to help, and we want your holiday to be as enjoyable as possible – so don’t be shy!

As you know, you will have a pony to look after as your own for the week. Your pony can’t wait to meet you and start having fun! During your stay, you’ll be caring for your pony, improving your riding, learning new skills and making new friends. Add a beach ride and a gymkhana at the end of the week, and you’re in for a fun-packed holiday to remember!

This special Pony Camp Diary is for you to fill with your holiday memories. We hope you’ll write all about your adventures here at Sunnyside Stables – because we know you’re going to have lots!

Wishing you a wonderful time with us!

Monday morning– quickly scribbling this – we’ve just arrived

Well, I can’t believe we’re actually here at last! Me and my best friend Kayla have been saving up for ages to come to Pony Camp. Our parents said they’d pay half the money if we earned the other half, so we’ve been round washing cars for our neighbours and Mum’s had me cleaning the bathroom twice a week for the last month!

Me and Kayla have been since reception class and now we’re in our final year at Juniors, and we’ve ridden together most Saturdays for the last two years. Her dad drove us down here (we’re from Bromley, near London). My mum and dad, and Kayla’s mum are coming to pick us up so they can watch the gymkhana – I can’t WAIT for that! But there’s so much exciting stuff to do before then – it says in Jody’s welcome letter that we’re going on a beach ride – how fantastic! I’ve never been on one before and I’m really excited about cantering along the sand with my pony. I can’t believe I’ll have my OWN pony – well, for a week anyway! I wonder which one I’ll get?! Oh, it’s all so brilliant here I feel like I might just BURST like a balloon!

I’m writing this lying on my new bed – I’ve got the bottom bunk and Kayla’s in the one above. She’s starting off her diary too. It’s great we’re sharing a room. We’ve unpacked and I’ve put my video camera in the drawer with my jodhs and T-shirts. Dad gave it to me when he got his new one and I can’t wait to start filming our fab holiday adventures! We’ve just met Millie and her mum Jody, who’ll be looking after us this week. It’s Millie’s room we’re sharing and her bed’s over by the window, all messy and covered in cuddlies and mags! She’s SO lucky – I wish we lived here all the time too! Jody’s given us a timetable of what we’ll be doing, which I’ll stick in this diary.

Pony Camp Timetable

8am: Wake up, get dressed, have breakfast

8.45am: Help on the yard, bring ponies in from the field, do feeds, etc.

9.30am: Prepare ponies for morning lessons (quick groom, tack up, etc.)

10am: Morning riding lesson

11am: Morning break – drink and biscuits

11.20am: Pony Care talk

12.30pm: Lunch and free time

1.30pm: Prepare ponies for afternoon lesson

2pm: Riding lesson

3pm: Afternoon break – drink and biscuits

3.20pm: Pony Care talk

4.30pm: Jobs around the yard (i.e. cleaning tack, sweeping up, mixing evening feeds, turning out ponies)

5.30pm: Free time before dinner

6pm: Dinner (and clearing up!)

7pm: Evening activity

8.30pm: Showers and hot chocolate

9.30pm: Lights out and NO TALKING!

Kayla read it out and we got so excited thinking of all the things we’ll be doing that we had to have a big squealy hug and dance around the room! A whole week to spend together, with our own ponies to look after, riding every day and having secret girly chats every night. Heaven!

Oh, Millie has just stuck her head round the door and said it’s time to go down to the yard. I feel a bit nervous about meeting everyone. Thank goodness me and Kayla came together.

Gotta go – bye!

Afterlunch

I’m just grabbing a few minutes to write in here before we go back out. I want to get everything down while it’s still fresh in my mind and not miss out a single thing!

Well, there was definitely nothing to be nervous about – the other girls are LOVELY! Jody came out to the yard with us and introduced us to Sally, who’s the main instructor here, and Lydia, who’s the head stable girl.

Then we all had to say our names and where we were from. Sarah, Genevieve and Shanika (all 11) go to the same riding school in London and are sharing a room together.

Me, Kayla and Millie are in together of course, so that leaves Jasmine and Lexy (who are BFFs too) and they’re sharing with Ava, the youngest. They’re all 9, but Ava’s only just 9 and Jas is 10 next week.

Then Sally showed us round the yard. We all went WOW when we saw the swimming pool – it looks even more amazing than in the pics on the Sunnyside Stables website. There’s a games room too, with COOL! stuff like table tennis and Twister and dance mats.