Something New - Month Two
Jun. 23rd, 2020 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitAgain, it's still difficult to do something new, since there are limited opportunities. We saw my granddaughter at the weekend after a gap of four and a half months so it felt new, even if it doesn't fall within the category.
This month's![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
story_works Take A Leap Challenge was to do a new physical activity. I went back to Sadler's Wells Company of Elders dance sessions, which I'd tried before, but this time did Old School Hip Hop and Funk, Contemporary (Sweden), Kathak and Acogny Technique. I enjoyed trying them out, and some of them I'd be interested in doing again at some point.
Only two FutureLearn courses this month:
Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Intercultural Contact by the University of Leeds. This was a two-week course, and there are others in the series. It was okay, but not particularly relevant to me, since it was discussing living in a different culture for a period of time and the challenges which can be faced, and the further challenges which may occur on return home.
Penshurt Place & the Sidney Family of Writers by Lancaster University. A new course, and I recognised the names of some of the other participants from other courses I've followed. Theoretically this would have been an interesting historical course, but it didn't grab me. The family, both men and women, were writing around the time of Shakespeare and there was obviously a comparison to be made. But the Sidneys were only writing for themselves and their friends, so they could afford to be self-indulgent with their writing. It didn't appeal to me.
This month's
story_works Take A Leap Challenge was to do a new physical activity. I went back to Sadler's Wells Company of Elders dance sessions, which I'd tried before, but this time did Old School Hip Hop and Funk, Contemporary (Sweden), Kathak and Acogny Technique. I enjoyed trying them out, and some of them I'd be interested in doing again at some point.Only two FutureLearn courses this month:
Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Intercultural Contact by the University of Leeds. This was a two-week course, and there are others in the series. It was okay, but not particularly relevant to me, since it was discussing living in a different culture for a period of time and the challenges which can be faced, and the further challenges which may occur on return home.
Penshurt Place & the Sidney Family of Writers by Lancaster University. A new course, and I recognised the names of some of the other participants from other courses I've followed. Theoretically this would have been an interesting historical course, but it didn't grab me. The family, both men and women, were writing around the time of Shakespeare and there was obviously a comparison to be made. But the Sidneys were only writing for themselves and their friends, so they could afford to be self-indulgent with their writing. It didn't appeal to me.
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Date: 2020-06-24 10:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-24 11:04 am (UTC)The dance sessions were fun. I've expressed an interest in one of the organisers of a session and they're running an online class tomorrow, which might have been fun, but we're due to reach 30C then, so I won't be doing it.