What Others Say

Peter and Brenda were very helpful, nothing was too much trouble. Thanks again Peter for your help I have started writing my story.

Peter and Brenda were very helpful, nothing was too much trouble. Thanks again Peter for your help I have started writing my story.

The first thing that I want to say is that the course has been useful to me and therefore, from my point of view, it has been successful as it is.

The first thing that I want to say is that the course has been useful to me and therefore, from my point of view, it has been successful as it is.

Congratulations to all at U3A for their enterprise and initiative in offering these online courses. I was surprised, if anything, that there weren\\'t more participants. As someone who took the course while sitting in the UK, the World is your oyster!

Congratulations to all at U3A for their enterprise and initiative in offering these online courses. I was surprised, if anything, that there weren\\'t more participants. As someone who took the course while sitting in the UK, the World is your oyster!

An excellent introduction to the pleasures and challenges of writing. Jenny is a caring and supportive tutor. Her constructive comments on written activities, and her positive approach in general, made taking the course a very enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

An excellent introduction to the pleasures and challenges of writing. Jenny is a caring and supportive tutor. Her constructive comments on written activities, and her positive approach in general, made taking the course a very enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

I really enjoyed this course. Jenny was very helpful with her comments. I would like a more advanced course, starting where we left off with using creative titles etc. from newspapers to spark ideas. There is never an end to what a writer can learn.

I really enjoyed this course. Jenny was very helpful with her comments. I would like a more advanced course, starting where we left off with using creative titles etc. from newspapers to spark ideas. There is never an end to what a writer can learn.

Knowing that someone will read one’s work helps to target the mind. The support from the tutor was very good. She is obviously a master diplomat.

Knowing that someone will read one’s work helps to target the mind. The support from the tutor was very good. She is obviously a master diplomat.

Attached is my evaluation form for the Writing for Pleasure course just ended. This was a thoroughly enjoyable course with an excellent tutor.

Attached is my evaluation form for the Writing for Pleasure course just ended. This was a thoroughly enjoyable course with an excellent tutor.

My tutor really helped me. I’m really sad that the course has finished. I didn’t really know what kind of a writer I was. The exercises adapted so well with what I wanted to achieve.

My tutor really helped me. I’m really sad that the course has finished. I didn’t really know what kind of a writer I was. The exercises adapted so well with what I wanted to achieve.

I enjoyed the course immensely, and am sorry it has finished. I learned so much and am now going to finish the children’s book I started three years ago. I also made a new friend, actually two new friends. I will do another course now. The results were so encouraging.

I enjoyed the course immensely, and am sorry it has finished. I learned so much and am now going to finish the children’s book I started three years ago. I also made a new friend, actually two new friends. I will do another course now. The results were so encouraging.

Very interesting course, so much feed back from both tutor and other students; learnt to really use my brain better. I liked being able to do the writing in my time without any pressure it’s great to learn over the Internet as I live a fair way from a TAFE plus being on a pension finances limits me.

Very interesting course, so much feed back from both tutor and other students; learnt to really use my brain better. I liked being able to do the writing in my time without any pressure it’s great to learn over the Internet as I live a fair way from a TAFE plus being on a pension finances limits me.

I am the primary carer for my frail mother who at nearly 100 needs full time care now. Being able to access a service like this is one way to feel less isolated from the world outside. I am indeed much blessed.

I'll go as far as to say that being totally absorbed in my most recent online course has saved my sanity this year.

I feel as though I belong to something to keep my mind off my pain, also helps keep my brain working.

I am partially blind with limited short sight. I am extremely grateful to u3a as I now have an interest at home - am happy working on my own and life has again a meaning.

I care for my wife who has Alzheimers. Have done so for the last 8 years.

I am a self-funded retiree caring for my wife with [dementia]. Because of her condition I am with her constantly and generally confined to home.

I am deaf - communicating online is wonderful for me. I am sure that is true for other people with disabilities of many kinds.

I have to devote a lot of my time to looking after my wife who will be 90 years of age in November. I enjoyed being able to work at my own speed and time.

Nowadays, living alone and physically limited, I was being stupefied by knitting, crochet, patchwork, computer puzzles and occasional bus trips. There is a limit.

I have made contact with some great people in other parts of Australia, people I would never have met had I not been online. Knowing that there are others out there who are interested in learning about the same subject as myself and sharing information is great. The subject matter in each course that I have participated in has been fascinating, as have the different websites that we have been recommended to use.