About a year ago my partner saw my poetry notebook lying around and went to read it - I quickly flew across the room and grabbed the book away defensively and couldn't bring myself to let him read it. In the autumn I held a poetry reading night round a bonfire, and read out a few of my poems. Ok, I was so nervous I raced through them and they were read out really badly, but I actually managed to bring myself to read them to a group of people and even got a couple of compliments! (Not on my group reading skills however...!)

Participated in Kickboxing lessons - this one was a while back now, but my sister had been asking me to go to classes with her since I was a little kid and until a year or so ago, I had never had the confidence to agree to it. I really enjoyed it but unfortunately we had to stop the lessons as the time the class was held was prooving difficult.

I participated in Zumba classes. I have been trying to work on my confidence for years now and never would have dreamed of attempting any kind of class let alone an aerobic/dance based one. I went for a few weeks and always put all my effort into it and even found I was managing to keep up pretty well! Really good fun but the classes were getting pretty samey so seemed better value for money just doing it from home...About a year ago my partner saw my poetry notebook lying around and went to read it - I quickly flew across the room and grabbed the book away defensively and couldn't bring myself to let him read it. In the autumn I held a poetry reading night round a bonfire, and read out a few of my poems. Ok, I was so nervous I raced through them and they were read out really badly, but I actually managed to bring myself to read them to a group of people and even got a couple of compliments! (Not on my group reading skills however...!) Participated in Kickboxing lessons - this one was a while back now, but my sister had been asking me to go to classes with her since I was a little kid and until a year or so ago, I had never had the confidence to agree to it. I really enjoyed it but unfortunately we had to stop the lessons as the time the class was held was prooving difficult. I participated in Zumba classes. I have been trying to work on my confidence for years now and never would have dreamed of attempting any kind of class let alone an aerobic/dance based one. I went for a few weeks and always put all my effort into it and even found I was managing to keep up pretty well! Really good fun but the classes were getting pretty samey so seemed better value for money just doing it from home...

Posted 13 years ago