just found my first letter to Berni Saunders, - please read
May 5 2000 at 3:27 PM
I would like to post this at Cyberhorse, but I guess Bill will edit it out. I just need to let you know - (and since we have a forum now - I can..)- as I feel terrible about what he has written.
I sent this letter to Berni, as she is a judge educator (not Bill) on the 15.12.99
you probably don't remember me - I was one of your E level judges candidates in Glenbrae a while ago. You conducted the clinic there together with "M".
My name is Carola Adolf (I am a "D" now and enjoying judging very much!)
The reason I am writing to you is my new (and nerve wrecking) venture:
A new service business, called "International Equestrian Education Service", short "I.E.E.S.".
I had the idea quite some time ago but was never really game enough to take "the plunch".
Thanks to my friends in Germany as well as with the help of the internet, I have "met" many wonderful "horse people" and trainers from all over the world who communicate with me on a friendship basis.
Some of them are quite remarkable people in their own right, some of them professionals. I have asked some of them if they would be interested to share their knowlegde with our riders - and some agreed!
Thankfully, I have a sponsor (Ray White Chelsea) who became interested in my idea of bringing these professionals to Victoria (if all goes well, also to other States). So I "launched" I.E.E.S. (quiet frightened of what might or might NOT happen, but at the same time very excited, because I instinctively feel, I have something to offer that some of our riders might welcome!)
I am not a competitive rider myself (but I train my horses quietly at home and love doing it!)
To make a long story short: I am bringing classical Dressage trainers to Victoria.
Our first trainer, Robert O. Mayer FN, BHSI will arrive on the 3.3.2000 and has agreed to conduct 10 different Clinics at venues around Melbourne. I am in the process of organizing them.
As the costs to do all this are quite high (all up, incl. trainer nearly $10.000), I obviously need the support of our rider community to continue.
I have not concentrated on getting famous "names" but rather on finding excellent teachers. I believe, I have found some of them, most of them with German background.
I would be grateful if you could help me promote their visits.
My sponsor is helping with paying for airfare and accommodation, as well as hiring the venues, however the general promotion is my department.
I have put together a web-site for I.E.E.S. and would be grateful if you could have a look and perhaps link it to "cyberhorse"? www.nex.net.au/users/camilu
As I am anything else but wealthy (but somewhat hopeful that I can do my little bit to help improve the standard of Dressage in Australia) I would like to ask you if you could "link" I.E.E.S. to cyberhorse for anything less than $200 ? For the first year perhaps, to help us "get off the ground"?
Before you answer, please have a look at my self-made site and (if you have time)
also at Mr.Robert O. Mayer's site, so you know who I am trying to introduce to our riders early next year. ( I get goosebumps every time I visit it....) and I am proud - to say the least, that he has accepted my invitation.
www.ROMRA.com
I need to make the best of it. But I need help to do it. Please help.
With kind regards,
Carola Adolf
Lot 9, Acton Road
Bass, Vic. 3991
56-782 286/ 041 42 47236
e-mail: camilu@nex.net.au
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Neither Berni nor Bill did reply to this letter. I was sent a Cyberhorse newsletter instead.
How Bill interprets this letter, you can read now in his reply to "classically trained" at the Cyberhorse forum.
So thank you all who give me support -----