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CAVSA LATET, VIS NOTISSIMA

Dies Tertius: It's Alive!!!

6/20/2023

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   Thank you so much to Διδάσκαλος Cogan for writing the blog thus far. We are so excited to be writing the blog from here on out and hope you keep checking it daily!

   Happy Birthday to our Sophie! Today she is turning 17th and we are extremely lucky to have the opportunity to celebrate with her. 

     With Jackie and Ash the earliest risers (5:20 and 4:30 AM respectively), many students chose to run on the outdoor track before ientaculum (breakfast). After, we had our first day of α/β/γ classes, ἱερἁ (Ancient Greek rituals) where we compared Greek wedding rituals to their modern counterparts taught by Magistra Blanks, Διονὐσια (The Great Dionysia) where we learned the Attic Greek alphabet and about the different dialects of Ancient Greek taught by Διδάσκαλος Cogan, and Pictura Romana, taught by Magister Cavedo, where we learned about Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia and began investigating what it can teach us about 1st Century Roman Art.

   We had the pleasantries of getting to learn from the Governor's Japanese Academy and exchange basic phrases between our languages. This is turn allows us to respect each others learning differences while still being able to communicate

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

   Today during otium, Rex and James serenaded everyone (too bad so sad for those who went to the gym) in the atrium with a kazoo and viola duet, playing songs from a variety of genres. 

   Those who chose to take part in Memoranda were assigned important roles including Photo Sorter, Video Editor, Latin Writer, and Yearbook Planner. Everyone else began working on their Varietas projects, fitting our theme of "causa latet, vis notissima" (the cause lies hidden, but the result is well known). 

   With an hour to change into Togas, students were forced to trudge the five minute walk to the dining hall, without tripping over themselves or others. After Cena (dinner) we returned to Andrews Hall for our Toga photos, fabulous election speeches and voting. 

Congrats to the winners of the GLA MMXXIII (totally fair) elections:

Censor: Stella & Octavian
Consul: Rin & Mykayla
Praetor: Chloe & MacPhearson
Quaestor: Christian & Marisa
Tribune: Pierson & James
Aedile (Yours Trulies): Jazz & Noah

 After three days of valiant fighting, the current top three of The Province Cup are:
1. Italia -38
2. Hispania - 33
3. Britannia - 29

Iocum diei (joke of the day):
Q: What has 6 legs, 4 eyes, 2 arms, and a tail?

A: Caligula riding Incitatus.

Today's joke submitted by Noah

These next three weeks are bound to have more ioci dierum, abnormal early risers, ferocious battles for the rightly place of first in The Province Cup, and of course, grammatical mistakes in our Latin.

- Signing off for now, Jazz and Noah
7 Comments
Oliver O Mathias
6/21/2023 05:15:16 am

Thank you, this seems to have been a great day.

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Melissa Masic
6/21/2023 09:32:24 am

Looks like everyone is having a good time and learning a lot! Thanks for updating the blog!!

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Decker Cho
6/21/2023 10:39:24 am

Thank you! More pictures please!!

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Angela Lenihan
6/21/2023 11:40:30 am

I’m so glad the kids seem to be having a good time! Viola and kazoo??🤣🤣🤣. Well done, dudes!

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Traci M
6/21/2023 01:01:30 pm

Loving these updates--thank you! Please include more photos if possible.

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Lauren Katz
6/21/2023 07:32:03 pm

Thank you so much for these updates! We love seeing the photos! The variety of activities and classes is so impressive!

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Alicia Gallaway
6/21/2023 09:53:49 pm

Thank you for the update. Congrats to all the students that won positions in the elections! It is also very cool to see that students are taking over the blog posts (hi Jazz!!!) Keep up the great work!

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