Fun classes?

[Gardenarian]

Anyone else taking classes for fun/personal enrichment?

I'll be starting in a few weeks - a studio drawing group, a dance class, and a mixed media/self actualization class.

And weekly archery, though that's a bit pricey and I'm starting to look for my own gear so I can keep it up solo.

[iris lilies]

Yesterday I signed up for these adult ed classes:

color (3 sessions, studying all aspects of color for, purposes of art and design)

Indian street food cooking class

lecture on st louis public art and architecture

lecture on sculpture in our oldest cemetery


I put this one on my calendar for September:

a lecture sponsored by the Show Me Institute which is a Libertarian think tank here in my city. The lecture is about public health policy

And then, there is the never endng garden club activities. I belong to a garden club that studies floral design. For each meeting we are expected to come with a floral design, and that is critiqued by the group. We have to study up n the type of design requred that mnth.

dH and I recently attended a National Garden club symposium about judging vegetable and herb specimens at shows. These are common county fair exhibits.

I am also taking the National Garden Club's courses on becoming a flower show judge. I'll be doing this for a few years before I earn cerification.

[Chicken lady]

I'm taking a pottery class. I'm doing it because it is fun (no one is making me) but also because it enriches me as a teacher and I like learning new skills and ideas and sharing as much as I can with my classes.

[JaneV2.0]

The last classes I took were Jewelry Metalwork and Silver Metal Clay--both good classes.

[razz]

Painting large images of flowers in acrylic and then watercolour image of glass container. I am working on a non-objective in my spare time.

[Simplemind]

I've been taking watercolor for the past four years but it is such a challenge I wouldn't call it fun most of the time. It is a good brain workout for me.

[bae]

Ocean rescue lifesaving.

[Zoe Girl]

I just go on day long or weekend retreats, close to a class since I learn a lot

[catherine]

I just attended a one-day herbal medicine class. I think I might sign up for a Chi Running class in either Asheville or DC. On July 4 I started running every other day using a Couch to 5k app on my phone and I am really into it at this point! I'm up to running a mile and a quarter (and walking a mile).

IL, I'm jealous--your list looks like so much fun! Especially the art and architecture class--in fact all the art classes y'all are taking look fun!

[LDAHL]

Implementing GASB 68 compliance requirements for multiemployer pension plans.

Common Wisconsin garden pests.

[catherine]

Implementing GASB 68 compliance requirements for multiemployer pension plans.


Oh, wow--and I thought the art classes sounded great! ;)

[Chicken lady]

LDAHL, this is for FUN?

[LDAHL]

LDAHL, this is for FUN?

It was a voluntary on-my-own-time thing I did for both professional and personal interest.

Personally, i think that accounting is such an interesting and essential cultural artifact I wonder that more people don't take an interest.

[KayLR]

Just finished my second series of golf lessons. Last fall took two PhotoShop classes through the community college. I also go to two weekly classes at the Y, zumba and hip hop dance party. Those may not count, but I do learn stuff, like how my muscle memory still works at 61 but my rhythm is not what it used to be.

[ToomuchStuff]

There is a sharpening class, that is no longer as the teacher retired. However, he did film some of the last classes and released a dvd, so I have ordered that.

[Chicken lady]

LDAHL, congratulations on finding a great professional fit.

[Tradd]

Scuba diving. Did a 2 hour intro class a few weeks ago and loved it. Signed up for certification class right away. I have a pool session tonight and all day Saturday. Cert dives are mid September in a local quarry.

[LDAHL]

LDAHL, congratulations on finding a great professional fit.

It pays to be boring!

[ApatheticNoMore]

LDAHL, congratulations on finding a great professional fit.

I think if you work in and learn anything for a significant period of time it becomes interesting (this is not saying jobs are interesting, many of them are way too mindnumbingly repetitive to ever be made interesting, but a few here and there might be. However classes are decisively NOT jobs, and even if they do seem superficially similar (ie same subject) classes cover a breadth of new (therefore novelty not repetitiveness) material in a subject and have the potential to be interesting even if the subject matter may seem boring if you haven't put in time working with it).

It's not that everything one learns to take interest in is where one's natural interest first and foremost takes one, it's a process. Well ... I've taken no classes for fun, I struggle through difficult maybe practical (or not) classes. So ...

[19Sandy]

I would love to spend my life learning in school but can't afford it but I do soak up knowledge by reading and watching television.

Some senior citizens can take free classes at local colleges but I am not eligible yet.

[Tenngal]

I took a Master Gardener class and certification years ago. Much fun. I need to find something else along those lines.