Day 7: Legion XX and In Culina

Salvete!

     Today is Saturday, and we have almost finished our first week of classes! It is so crazy to think that we are already almost a week in! We woke up and went to breakfast, and then went straight into classes. In Appalachian Arcadia, we covered Theocritus' Idyll rap battle (of sorts) between two shepherds, which was immensely entertaining! In Voces Feminarum we learned about Erinna, a Telean poet who wrote the Distaff in Doric dialect. In Neuterque et Uterque, we did scansion for Ovid's Metamorphoses and covered more of the story of Iphis and Ianthe. That was very fun, and I (Jackson) appreciated learning about mythology, as always! 

      After classes, we had lunch, and then Latin Loquenda. Today, in preparation for tomorrow's Thermapolium (an immersion activity for selling food) we talked about how to order and sell food, and how to say which foods we like. Then, we had a very fun activity, in which a reenactment group called Legion XX came and showed us various items from the Roman world, including tunics and the materials used for spinning fabrics, a grinder for grain, and various Roman military equipment. We learned how Romans would have used and manufactured these items, and especially how difficult making tunics were in Ancient Rome. We also got to grind grain ourselves! Afterwards, we got extended Otium time, and Princeps passed out popsicles!! During Otium, I (Jackson) worked on my Greek and translated some more of the Iphis story alongside many others. I (Emily) painted my nails (a pink shimmer color)! After Otium, we had dinner and then cooked! Different groups got to make different things, and we also got a run-down of future electives and we got to scheme plots during Thermopolium. Finally, we got to go, and finished yet another cursed video which we watched part of in Loquenda (involving a bread angel at one point). 

Current elected (besides us) officials:
Tabby and Siddha: Censors
Mahee and Henry: Consuls
Sarah Kate and Owen H: Praetors
Evie and Fiona: Quaestors 
Alec and Sophie: Tribunes

Province Points: 
Britannia: 110
Achaea: 89
Germania: 85
Aegyptus: 81
Hispania: 76
Italia: 69
Africa: 69
Gallia: 68
Asia: 66

Valete, 
​Emily and Jackson