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Man:   I went on a canoeing course last weekend, rather against my better judgement, because although I enjoy swimming, I thought canoeing might be too difficult. And I was right. I really couldn’t get the hang of it. I bet the tutors will remember me: not because I was one of their star students, far from it, but I fell out of the canoe more often than everyone else put together! But even so, I enjoyed it so much that when some of the group signed up to do another course together, in six months’ time, I found myself signing up too. I bet the tutors refuse to teach me next timer

Man: There were several people I’ve met on other courses: I haven’t been on that many, but some of them seemed to take at least a dozen a year. Actually we ended up spending a lot of time chatting and going for walks in the garden, and that kind of made up for the fact that I didn’t really learn much about local history, which is why I’d gone. The tutor certainly knew a lot about the subject, but she seemed to have very little idea how to teach, so I just couldn’t get into it. And it cost enough. I probably need to find a better way of studying.