I am back at it.
I don’t know if you knew this but back at Aysgarth I did not do Latin because Aysgarth and I agreed that it was Impossible.
Turns out we were wrong.
I have been going to Latin lessons at Gordonstoun and been trying really hard. And yes it is really Tricky.
An interesting event today was during a drama lesson where we were asked to sit down, close our eyes and then count as high as we could as a group. But. If any of us said a number at the same time. we would restart. but as we were all so intelligent we then took it in turns and went around the circle. When we managed to get to fourteen the teacher managed to spot what was happening and stopped us. we broke the system. :0
As I am too lazy to think of anything that has happened in my day I am going to talk more about the expedition.
Some pictures are going to be at the bottom and the top for anyone curious to know what my group, who I Slept and ate and played and bonded with throughout this tough expedition, Looks like. Just look in the pictures.
A highlight from it would have been when we went to this hall where it was surrounded by a net and played a sort of dodgeball/British bulldog cross over game. where we would have to get to the other side of the room without being hit.
once as I was running the person in front of me lost his shoe as he was running. so as I skidded past it I ran back and picked it up and returned it to him on the other side.
Then there was the time where I and someone else (face to cake guy) collided. In my position, I could have kept going but I stopped and picked him up as people rushed passed us like in a war movie. In my peripheral vision, I could see we were falling behind so I carried him to the other side. Which was fun.
That seems to be all for now. so this is Oliver
Signing out 🙂
(what a View)
2 Comments
What an exciting life you now lead. Your Mum’s blog tells us that you have now packed up rugby, good move, and chosen badminton, equally good move. I played badminton a lot and have a couple of good rackets you can have when you next come home if you wish. I can also be very helpful with your Latin. I remember very well about ‘amo, amas, amatting’, as I recall it means something like ‘I am a table, you are a table, he is a table’. Tonight I’m off to see a Latin film called ‘Ad astra’ which shows how erudite I am. Best of luck with it all.
I had to do Latin at school as well, Oliver, and it was way beyond tricky, but somehow I passed my O-level, the olden days version of GCSEs. The worst thing was (and I presume still is) that nouns and verbs have declensions and conjugations (though I forget which does which), so you can’t begin to understand anything until you’ve worked out several horrendous puzzles , goodness knows how anybody really learnt to speak or read or write it . The funny thing is that for hundreds of years people in England did carry on using Latin, even after the real Romans had given up and gone home. Eventually, after they’d had to learn French as well when the Normans invaded, our ancestors gave up trying to cope with the tricky bits of other peoples’ languages and abandoned nearly all the conjugations and declensions – which is why English is so easy now!
Great that you’re putting your mind to trying Latin again, and good luck with all your renewed efforts! People who are good at maths (like being in the top set) can often manage Latin well too, because it’s a very logical language, or so they say . . .