I was a victim for enrolling, although that was in my youger days. I must have had a quest for knowledge, especially foreign languages. It all began at school with my five years of French I supporse. It was not my chosen language, but in England French was always the first foreign langage to learn. I then had the opportunity at school for German, so I enrolled. This meant that my cooking lessons had to be sacrificed, but German was more interesting than cooking – for me. And then another class could learn Spanish, but not mine. So I enrolled in an evening course for learning Spanish. And then came the time when my school days were finished, and then evenually I could enrol in an Italian course – forgetting my Spanish in the meanwhile. Who needs Spanish when you can learn Italian.

Some years later, then married with a family, I decided to take the plunge and enroll in Russian and this really got me. I stayed in the course for more than 10 years, and can still write and read the language at the age of 80, although with the years a few things have been forgotten And then somewhere on the way I enrolled in a year to learn Arabic. That was a bit too much. Arabic is not just arabic and I realised with so many variations, even the Arabs do not always understand each other. Only in the Emirates, is pure Arabic spoken, otherwise it is all dialects. Do the Algerians understand the Egyptians? I am not sure, they all speak a variation of Arabic.

And naturally in the meanwhile I had long been living in Switzerland. I could naturally still speak my mother tongue and Swiss German, the German dialect we speak in Switzerland, became my second language, although no enrollment, just a Swiss husband, although he speaks perfect English, but Swiss German is our daily language and my children also.

I also enrolled in our local first aid group, thinking it is not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. I was the accountant for our village first aid group for at least six years, but eventually resigned to give the work to someone younger.

I have not yet given up with enrollment, although the next interesting offer has not yet arrived. And I enrolled at the local evening classes as an English teacher for a few years.