Share and Enjoy

Isn't adult education fun? Let me put this into some kind of a context. We go to infants school and mess around with paint and paper and sand and water and don' realise what, if anything, we are learning. We then go to junior school where there is less fun and its more structured and test results suddenly become important. Next step secondary school-time to knuckle down and get some qualifications - unless you have the ambition to become a burger-flipper for McD's. Then sixth-form college and get some more - then work or university.
We then come back to adult education - basically a return to the fun of infants school without the fun. Generally you take a day off work - have to travel somewhere unreasonable e.g. Notting Hill Gate and sit in a room in embarrassed silence with a number of strangers 90% of whom you generally wouldn't share the time of day with. Along comes jolly trainer who seems to think that learning should be fun and doesn't take account of the fact that all you want is information, coffee, information, lunch, any practical session, go home. Not party games that would be rejected as infantile by even the most unsophisticated three year-old.
"Ok now throw the ball to your partner, tell them your name and say something about yourself."
"Hi I'm Andy, I'm really pissed off by this charade" "Hi Andy, I'm Susan and if you think you're pissed off, you should have had the trainer we had last week, she was a total fuckwit".
At the end of day you generally have to fill in an evaluation form comprising of tick boxes. Nowhere does it give you space to write "I learned absolutely nothing, the trainer was suffering from the delusion that they were popular and told me more than I could possibly ever want to know about their pet hamster (called Giles) and the fact that their children nearly went to university but decided instead to join the French Foreign Legion to escape from their clincially insane parent." They then ask you to "share" one positive and one negative thing about the day. Tricky this one as you can't really say what you are thinking...

Anyway as an aside, it's my birthday next month so you've got plenty of time to choose suitable gifts - don't say I didn't warn you