ἡμὲρα πὲντε: It's All Greek To Us

   As is becoming the norm, Ash and Jackie were our earliest risers, at 5:05 and 5:20 respectively. While the rain has ceased, besides the occasional spritz, the skies remained cloudy and grey, the air humid, and the sidewalk full of puddles, causing casualties to many once-dry pairs of socks.
   While breakfast was for the most part uneventful, today's morning announcements were so heavily applauded by the entire dining hall that you'd think the airplane had just landed.

   During ἱερἁ (Ancient Greek rituals) we learned about the classical definition of 'a hero', Hero Cults (including Homer, Heracles, and Diego Maradona), and the difference between worship of a Hero and of a Deity. In Pictura Romana we focused on Classical Greek Painters, our primarily studying Pliny's anecdote on the realism contest between Zeuxis and Parrhasius. We also learnt how to exchange common greeting amongst one another during Διονὐσια (The Great Dionysia), along with a review of the nominative articles and the verb εἰμί - "to be".

Quid fecimus in otio? (what did we do during free time?)

   Today during otium, Ella, Gabriel, Rex, Rin, and James spent at least an hour creating a full tier list of Minecraft mobs. Our students who love the gym (Matthew, Sumanth, Kevin, Octavian, Thomas, and Hyun) returned to their favorite place in the world. Others focused on strengthening their Latin while some wrote music. 

     After otium we had our first Greek drill, where students rotated between four stations in province pairs: vocabulary acquisition with RA Olivia, spoken Greek with Διδάσκαλος Cogan, pronunciation with RA Benji, and writing with RA Jams.

   Not only do we focus on the ancient languages but we also got our hands a little messy...
 In Artes I: Figlina, we painted premade clay pots while also testing our own skills by crafting whatever our hearts desired out of Sculpey. As you can see by pictures down below, we are all more talented than Michelangelo. Though the task was a bit challenging, everyone was overjoyed with the activity! Sorry parents! We might have some clay all over our clothes. 

  After Figlina, we played a province cup competition where provinces had to spell out a Latin word using the bodies of province members. When asked for the name of the game, RA Olivia told the reporters here at GLA Daily News, and we quote, "A great time, goofy, very silly and whimsical." Hispania emerged triumphant, with a blisteringly fast time of 6.27 seconds.

Speaking of the Province Cup, here is the current podium:
1. Italia -42
2. Hispania - 37
3. Germania- 32

Iocum diei (joke of the day):
A dolphin walks into a lemonade store and asks the attendant, "Can I have a glass?" The attendant says, "What?"

Today's joke submitted by RA Benji

A brand new amazing section, proposed by lovely Addie:

GLA Out of Context

In the future, this section will be for daily quotes, but today it is a compendium of all past quotes.

"A Delight to the senses" - Magistri Cogan and Cavedo
"Reece, how could you eat a whole box of clay?" - James
"I'll have what I'm having." - Διδάσκαλος Cogan as quoted by Magister Cavedo
"I'm glad we can turn everything into slander here." - James
"That's an ick" - Reece
"sed panis meus factus est a matri tua" - Magister Whitchurch
"Benji I hope you enjoy your dinner" - the Benjites
"He'll be fine, he's a durable lad." - Caroline W.
"And it was love at first shalom." - Reece
"So we're gonna give you a carrier pigeon..." - Princeps Wilkins
"You forgot to bring my toilet!" - Princeps Wilkins
"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. It's the War Room!" - Jazz

   Signing off with a clay covered keyboard (sorry Jams)
- Jazz & Noah