Dies Quattuor: 'twas very rainy

      Though it was an extremely rainy day, Jackie and Ash were still our earliest risers (4:05 &5:40). On the way to Ientaculvm student got to experience the joys of almost losing their umbrellas. As well as getting all their stuff wet! What a wonderful start to the day. On the plus side our two amazing Consuls had their first day of giving announcements! Which defiantly made up for the horrendous weather. 

   Despite a few papers getting obliterated by the downpour, we all made it to our second day of A/B/C classes unscathed. In Mercatus, taught by Princeps Wilkins, students discussed and analyzed The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by the extremely talented Ursula K. Le Guin. In Locutio, taught by Magister Whitchurch, students began preparing for our Thermopolium (Roman McDonalds) by practicing greetings and buying and selling in Latin. Free markets live on.  During Quid Rides?, taught by Magistra McIntire, students read about and discussed Incongruity Theorem, studying humor of the unexpected and wordplay (It is allowed, and okay, and very well). 

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

   Today during free time, many chose to go to the gym (including Benji, who was very excited to be able to go and is looking forward to swimming in the pool tomorrow. Childhood is forever.), and while some visited the pool, MacPhearson completed a 2 minute long plank (woo!)

   After otium, we had our first repetitio latina (latin drills). We switched between three stations in province groups, listening to the first four chapters of the first book of Magister Cavedo's libelli Cavelli, played grammar review games with Magistra Blanks and our wonderful RAs, and practiced 90 second long conversations with Magister Whitchurch.

   The rain finally decided to grace us with a few moments of light drizzling as we made our way to Brock. There we got to witness the lack of skills most of us possess in pool as entertainment before our movies. Tonight, we witnessed three tragedies. First, the failure of technical equipment in Brock, and arguably less importantly, Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1969 production of Medea (inspired by Euripides' telling of the tale) and Michael Cacoyannis' 1977 production of Iphigenia. Apparently Iphigenia's family has a thing with eating their children which is a bit concerning but we digress. (It's totally normal in that bloodline).

Province Cup top three:
1. Italia -41
2. Hispania - 37
3. Germania - 32

Iocum diei (joke of the day):
Q: How did I get from Iraq to Afghanistan?

A: Iran.

Today's joke submitted by Matthew

- To 17 more days of eating ice cream with every meal
   Your aediles, Jazz and Noah

P.S. there's never a quiet moment in Latin Academy. While writing this, Melissa and Matthew performed impressive pieces on our (newly installed) keyboard in the Multi-Purpose Room, and we hope we will have more late nights of blogging and jamming to classical.