Thank you all for a wonderful semester---I learned as much as you did, and I cannot wait to come back and do it all over again next semester!
Gotta go---I will be in Greece from 12/17 to 01/06, but I will check e-mail at least once daily; if you have any questions that can be answered quickly over e-mail don't hesitate to write; if you need something more elaborate, for which I will have to do research in my archives, it will have to wait until January.
Sorry for the caps, but in a second you'll understand...
Prof. M is going to be too busy grading papers and doing very important things tomorrow, Friday, December 7th. I've also gotten several e-mails from people wanting a time change or saying that they could not come at all but really wished they could. So we will NOT be getting together tomorrow at Ciccio & Tony's at 1pm for lunch. I've told as many people as I could find following the Latin 3 exam today, so I hope that through the blog and through people who have heard, the word will get around. If you read this and see or can contact anyone else who was planning to attend, please let them know that it is cancelled in case they would not check the blog. I would hate for people to show up only to wonder why no one else has.
Strictly speaking though our get-together isn't cancelled... merely rescheduled for the first Friday of the Spring Semester. Same place. Take note! We can move the time to later in the day, for dinner instead of lunch, if Prof. M has classes in the middle of the day on Fridays in the Spring... But more details on that later.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience this might cause...
I dont know about everyone else but we definitly need to get together and study for this exam. I hope Professor M. takes Mercy on us and we all get A's. All I want for Christmas is an A in Latin and NO exam. Also, can someone let me know where this restaurant is, and is a greek flavor or what...mmmm Hummus.lol
Well, it can be. I found an awesome site that is great for practicing and reviewing Latin. It's the Wheelock's (the book Prof. M. always copies the handouts from) Latin exercises website. It's a great interactive website that offers various practice exercises that target areas like: vocabulary, declensions, conjugations, reading comp, parsing words and...(drumroll please) a Latin crossword puzzle! It's great for beginning level Latin through advanced level. I like it and if you're continuing on to more Latin classes next semester it would be a great refresher course. Enjoy!
Here's the link: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/latin/wheelock/index.htm
As per Prof. M's request, I'm attempting to organize a get-together.
When: Friday, December 7th at 1pm Where: Ciccio & Tony's, located at 16019 Tampa Palms Blvd W. Tampa, FL 33647 if you'd like to mapquest it. It is not at all hard to find, don't worry...
I guess if Prof. M would like to, like last time, for people who need rides from school, we could meet at 12:30 at her office in Cooper. Would this be alright?
Ha! after wondering for a semester how Rachael did it (Rachael, I know I asked you but i didn't understand your instructions and was embarassed to ask again!) I have finally done it myself! Ladies and gentleman, my first very own youtube posting!
This is not exactly Latin, but then again everything is Latin: the artist who composed this popular tango is Spanish and so are the lyrics to the original song. This song is so popular, it has its own entry in Wikipedia (so much for what I considered my own refined and rare tastes...). According to Wiki,
"It has been performed by numerous tango orchestras and lately is commonly featured in films and television not only because of its undisputed quality but also for its free copyright after Gardel and Le Pera's 50 years death. Tango scenes with "Por una Cabeza" appear in Episode 37 of Nip/Tuck, as well as in Schindler's List, Scent of a Woman [1],Delicatessen (film) [2],True Lies[3], All the King's Men (2006 film), Bad Santa, and Episode 9 of Sweet Spy (2005 Korean drama)."
I youtubed them all, and the one attached here is by far the best rendition of both the song and the dance, not to mention the actors (you got to love Al Pacino!).
Salvete Omnes Carissimae Carissimique, excellentes discipuli!
Boy, can you tell I am in a mood? I cannot believe the semester is over---one more time beginning Latin, one more time all new and as if never done before...as Horace exhorts in the title of this message, now it is time to drink, now it is time to dance with free feet. We did this Ode in Latin III, it was written when Octavian defeated Cleopatra at Actium...remember how he finishes though, with that respect for the queen who chose to take her own life rather than be humiliated in Octavian's triumph.
So, all this by way of saying that I will be free this Friday for lunch (I don't think we can do something earlier, given the fact that we have to be in class at 1 and then at 2), so, Rachael, since you are the master of the ceremonies here, please put as together. Do you want to go to that place we went in the summer? It's not exactly Mediterannean, but it's pretty decent. I have a feeling we won't be entertained like the court of the Roman emperor Heliogabalus, who allegedly had 3 tons of rose petals shower his guests (here shown in a painting by Alma-Tadema, whom I adore). But since we carry the Roman world within, we will have a feast wherever we go! Latin is the ultimate movable feast.
