This blog is a recording of some of the things I have tried ( plus a few comments about activities other people told me about). I will be giving advice for people that want to try new things - whether you want to try a new one every week, or just a new one this year.
For the rest of 2016, I will be updating with a new thing every Monday. Not sure if I will keep that up come January 2017, but I've already scheduled quite a few posts.
Most of the exciting things to do start with a class and I will try to reference where I took what. This will make it easier for others to try it too.
I will include advise and rank everything on a scale of 1-3 cor costs for cost $$$, mental difficulty 🎓🎓🎓, and physical difficulty 💪💪💪.
I am doing this mostly by memory, so if my scale seems off, sorry. $🎓💪 meaning it is relatively cheap, easy and requires little effort, $$$🎓🎓🎓💪💪💪 meaning be prepared to spend a lot of money, work hard at it, and it will give you a real work out. Expect to leave tired, poorer, but more skillful than when you started.
Generally I call something cheap ($) if it costs less than $75 to try it one time. Anything more than $175 or so is expensive. I don't think I've tried anything more expensive than $1000 a 'course'- and courses that cost me more than $200 usually had multiple sessions spread out over multiple weeks. They effectively became my weekend for a month or so.
The difficulty is how I personally found it to be. Some things you might find easier or harder than I do, but at least you have a general idea.
I have also labelled them as follows:
For the rest of 2016, I will be updating with a new thing every Monday. Not sure if I will keep that up come January 2017, but I've already scheduled quite a few posts.
Most of the exciting things to do start with a class and I will try to reference where I took what. This will make it easier for others to try it too.
I will include advise and rank everything on a scale of 1-3 cor costs for cost $$$, mental difficulty 🎓🎓🎓, and physical difficulty 💪💪💪.
I am doing this mostly by memory, so if my scale seems off, sorry. $🎓💪 meaning it is relatively cheap, easy and requires little effort, $$$🎓🎓🎓💪💪💪 meaning be prepared to spend a lot of money, work hard at it, and it will give you a real work out. Expect to leave tired, poorer, but more skillful than when you started.
Generally I call something cheap ($) if it costs less than $75 to try it one time. Anything more than $175 or so is expensive. I don't think I've tried anything more expensive than $1000 a 'course'- and courses that cost me more than $200 usually had multiple sessions spread out over multiple weeks. They effectively became my weekend for a month or so.
The difficulty is how I personally found it to be. Some things you might find easier or harder than I do, but at least you have a general idea.
I have also labelled them as follows:
- Artistic: Uses some kind of creative talent. Most of these (but not all) also get Souvenir.
- Souvenir: Gives you a permanent, physical object when you are done. Most of them (but not all) are Artistic as well.
- Science: These activities involve learning some very interesting process.
- Circus: A lot of the stuff you see at the circus can be learned. These classes are often taught by professional or aspiring circus performers.
- Social: These activities are inherently social, beyond the class room environment. If you are lonely, try one of these.
- Exercise: Any of these activities, if done often enough, will burn calories and/or help you build muscle.
- Water Sport: Requires a lake/river/ocean. Almost all of these also qualify as exercise, but the warmth and water requirement is limiting.
- Kids: This means that this is a good choice for young children ( say 10 years old) Generally it means it is $ or $$, not too hard, not too dangerous, and does not require major adjustments for smaller people.
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