Thursday, April 14, 2011

National Latin Exam




Salvete! Do you all remember when I was complaining about studying for the National Latin Exam? Well, I am not going to do that anymore! That is becaualong with many other girls in the school who also recieved great scores , I won the third place in the Level 4 latin exam! All of the students at our school did extremely well on this test and our latin teacher is just bursting with pride. It is pretty interesting, because despite its name this is an INTERNATIONAL competition. Yes, I recently found out that students in Iran,among other countries,also took the test( we are puzzeled as to why they study latin, but more power to them I suppose)

So in short, congrats everyone who took the test and keep up the good work!

~Morgan, the classy classicist

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Poor Timi is a sophmore





Salvete omnes! Sorry for my recent hiatus, but here is another post for your enjoyment. Okay, so this morning during latin class, my friend Timi, who is a year older than me, was talking about Freshman or "Freshmeat" as people at her previous school used to call the unsuspecting 9th graders. Then, my latin teacher could not help but tell my dear friend what "sophmore" means when greek roots are used. Well in short this is the answer...

soph-
wise
sophomore (wise fool), philosophy

Yes, sorry Timi, you are a wise fool :) But, I am freshmeat,so it all works out in the end.