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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:   It was quite an odd sort of course, in a way, because I expected everyone to be working together, and helping each other to learn, but most of the time we were all just working on our own computers, with the tutor going round and helping each person individually. No teamwork at all. It made me realise that I work much better with other people than on my own: maybe it’s poor motivation, or something. Anyway, I learned much more about using a computer, which is what I wanted, so I suppose it was worth it, even though I can’t say I enjoyed it much.