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Old 21st-November-2004, 12:44 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Re: Clapping in Classes

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Originally Posted by Lynn

Reminds me of ......
The time, many moons ago when, attending a budgerigar show (and how our obsessions can change over time) on a hot summmer's day at a leisure centre near Coventry (the name is there, but out of reach), I paused by some wide open exit doors and gazed in some bewilderment at a large class dutifully following the instructions of an aerobics teacher. What morons I couldn't help thinking, like robots in the manufacture, slavishly following the instructor's apparently mind washing routine. And yet here I am (how our perceptions can change) all those years later, doing exactly the same thing and actually clapping at my own or my partners' efforts and, for all my native scepticism, enjoying being part of that experience.
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