Happy Halloween

Okay, please forgive me for the non-Latin post... but... 'Tis Halloween... And I know the Romans didn't celebrate Halloween... but those further north in Europe celebrated some kind of older version of it... and it is Halloween tonight, so... I have to celebrate some how, and I found a Supernatural video set to "Thriller" for the occasion...



It's better than scaring y'all with "Ghost Hunters" video clips with actual ghosts in actual haunted places, right? 'Cause the "Ghost Hunters" Live Investigation of the Waverly Hills Sanitorium (where 64,000+ TB patients died over the course of about 50 years) on the Sci-Fi Channel is what I'll be watching tonight, while studying for Latin and baking Halloween cookies...

Happy Halloween, everyone!!!

~Rachael

#1 Reason to Pay Attention in Latin Class

(other than so you don't make Prof. M sad/mad by your inattention...)

Pay attention in Latin class so you won't get caught by a Demon and have no way to Exorcise it! LOL!

Yep, there was more Latin on Supernatural last week...

(The Latin in these is mostly in the last 1:15 seconds of the first clip and the first part of the second clip... oh, and the first one contains material that makes this show rated TV-14, but we're all older than 14, right?) :D






~Rachael

Oh! The Roman Forum...

I just found something that looks pretty neat. It's a digital reconstruction of the Roman Forum and all of its structures. How cool is that?!? http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/

~Rachael

Cattus Petasatus

When doing some preliminary online Christmas shopping, I came across this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Cattus-Petasatus-Cat-Hat-Latin/dp/0865164711/ref=sr_1_21/104-1294284-2415152?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191816833&sr=1-21

I know what I'm going to get my son for Christmas now! (Although I do fear that it may be beyond my reading comprehension at this point).

I never realized it, but Amazon has a bunch of books in Latin that you might not expect (such as Harry Potter and Winnie the Pooh).

- Sara C.

I-stems make me sad

I really am having a lot of trouble with the whole I-stem thing. Other than just straight up memorizing which ones are which I really want to understand the method behind the madness. I get that it's only 3rd declension nouns that take it. And I get that there are two 'cases' in which a 3rd declension noun requires this i-stem. The rest is...um, yeah. I have the hand out that Professor M gave us, and "it's all Greek to me!" (too bad it's not Latin, ne? might stand a better chance...) Help? Please keep answers as monosyllabic as possible (which is ironic because I know that's somehow the key to all of this).


On a really unrelated note, I work at a paint-your-own-pottery studio, and I've recently been considering painting stuff with Latin phrases on it. I'll let y'all know if I do! :)

-Lauren O.
(the girl who talks a lot)

the plaque

as requested... :D

Camera phone images, but they're all I've got...

Prof. M's:

While I'm at it, I figured I'll post pictures of the other two I've done too...

Lauren's birthday gift:

Guess what her favorite color is... LOL!

The idea for Lauren's came from her reaction to seeing this one below. She said something like, "That's awesome! But it should say, 'Behold! Everything is purple!'"

This one was the first one I did, created for my parents' farm in Virginia. I thought: The cabin needs a sign in Latin for the porch... Yes, indeed.

~Rachael