Salvete! Hic sum in Virginia. Sunt novem puellae et quindecim pueri in conventiculo meo. Mane hodie habuimus classem Latinam duas horas cum duobus magistris bonis. Modus docendi eorum similis est modo Magistri Viatoris: ambulavimus sub divo, scripsimus et egimus scaenam, delineavimus imagines, et locuti sumus Latine de rebus solitis. Totam classem loquebamur Latine - nemo dixit ullum verbum Anglice.
Post classem, ivimus ad Missam. (Hic locus est collegium Catholicam, et re vera ego sum sola discipula in conventiculo quae non Catholica est.) Non fuit missa Latina, sed nonnullae partes Latine dictae sunt. Post missam autem hodie, edimus prandium, et tunc frequentaverunt classem Latinam duas horas plus. Multum gaudium erat. Quoque hodie post meridiem, natavimus in flumine et scapha gestati sumus.
In via dum redibamus ab ambulatione nostra, loquebar cum uno magistrorum nostrorum. Dixit se fuisse discipulum in Universitate Californiae, Berkeley. Quoque dixit se scire magistrum Latinum SaMoHiensem, et narravit mihi de pellicula Latina quae factus est in SaMoHi, de qua Magister Viator narravit nobis primo aestate!
Sicut dicitur, mundus parvus est!
-- ENGLISH TRANSLATION --
Hey everyone! Here I am in Virginia! There are nine girls and fifteen boys here at the Latin Immersion Program. This morning we had a Latin class for two hours with two very good Professors. Their mode of teaching is similar to Mr. Bailey's: we took a nature walk, wrote and performed a skit, drew pictures, and talked about everyday life in Latin. We spoke in Latin for the whole time - no one said anything in English.
After the class we went to Mass. (This is a Catholic college, and I'm actually the only student in my program who's not Catholic.) It wasn't Latin Mass, but parts of it were said in Latin. After Mass today, we had lunch and then went to Latin class for two more hours. It was a lot of fun. We also went swimming in the river and canoeing this afternoon.
On the way back from our walk, I was talking to one of our teachers. He said he had been a student at the University California, Berkeley. He also said he knew the Latin teacher from SaMoHi, and told me about the Latin movie that was made there, which Mr. Bailey told us about earlier this summer!
As they say, it's a small world!
Monday, July 13, 2009
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