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Argentina, Rojas : 15| Miss M was delighted as well when a few days later she got e-mails from some of the kids from the school, wishing us good luck. The local television station got word that a beautiful looking horse had arrived in their town and that evening two men arrived with cameras de lux. Miss M (I am sorry to say) needed a friend of the family to do some proper translations but it all went quite smoothly. I was a bit surprised that they didn´t come out to see me (I was the main attraction after all) but Miss M told me later that the lack of light inhibited them from doing so. I´ll take her word for it but I still think a simple "hola" would have been nice. But I am not a horse who dwell on these kind of things….
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Miss
M was welcomed into the family with open arms and was well-fed and
looked after. She shared a room with a very friendly 12-year old
girl called Sarah who was practicing her English and who was delighted
for the chance to show off what she's been learning at her English
school. Sarah also told her English teacher about this foreign girl
traveling with her horse so Miss M was asked to go and have a chat
with all the other kids at the school. After a short introduction
from Miss M, telling them the why´s, when´s and how´s,
she was bombarded with questions. The first thing they wanted to
know was her age (this became an anticipated and quite regular question
during our travels) and I believe they even enquired about the number
of years I´ve been spending on this earth. I´ve never
been vain so it didn´t bother me one bit that they got this
information about me. I have better things to worry about. (But
I won´t burden you with these just yet). 
After
out stay in Salto Miss M and I continued to travel together as a
duet but she sensed that I was tired from being ridden every day.
Having had to carry Miss M (I won´t comment about the amount
of sweet things she´s been having since we met), the saddle-bags,
tent, two ponchos (one for warmth and the other for rain) and mate-bag
(will tell you later what this is for) didn´t help matters
much and Miss M knew the only way to prevent me from burning out
before we´ve even completed a month´s riding is if we
become a trio again.