Day 10: Painting and Pizza

     Salvete, omnes! 

     Today was our tenth day of GLA! We woke up today, had breakfast (we are still overrun by the Christian Family Conference), but we nonetheless had substantive meals. Next, we had classes. We translated Sulpicia in Voces Feminarum, continued the Iphis story in Ovid's Metamorphoses in Neuterque et Uterque, and read some of Vergil's Ecologues and listened to more Appalachian folk music Appalachian Arcadia.

     Next, in the afternoon, we had our second guest speaker, the wonderful Dr. John F. Miller! Fun fact: he has spoken at every single GLA (38 years running)! Today, he spoke to us of Cybele, a Phrygian mother goddess, her cult in Rome, and also the Roman calendar. I (Jackson) was deeply fascinated by the lecture, and we at GLA thank Dr. Miller for coming once again to speak with us! Gratias maximas! 

     In Varietas, we worked in groups on our final projects, and in Memoranda, we sorted more photos. Then, we had Otium! I (Emily) did laundry and wrote some epistles. I (Jackson) played a board game with Vinay, Siddha, Erik, and Ryan K., which we are yet to finish as of now. At dinner, we ordered Dominos to avoid the over-crowded dining hall at Estes, which was delicious. 

      We had another ancient art lesson today, where we got to paint on wooden boards with both tempera paint and encaustic wax (which Roman mummy portraits were made of)! This was a great opportunity for us to show off our artistic skills, and many people were very creative! I (Emily) tried to paint the cover of the 50th anniversary edition of the book Flying to the Moon by Michael Collins (if you can't tell, I really love this book)! The cover is a photo of the Moon and Earth! Some other highlights was a painting of a scroll with "Veni, Vidi, Vici" written on it from Ryan K., a painting of a rapper from Richmond apparently named "NettSpend" from our consul Henry, and several depictions of the rainbow pride lions that some of us bought from the campus store today. All in all, the painting experience was very fun for everyone!

Valete,
Emily and Jackson!