I’m doing a week of Latin summer school this week and it’s great fun. I’m totally rusty and can barely string the most basic sentence together, but it’s really wonderful how (some) things are coming back. The class is very relaxed so I’m just listening and learning, peeping up now and then when I actually know something.

I doubt I’ll ever be extremely skilled at it, no long-term patience. I also have a tendency to forget things way too quickly which makes it all quadruply hard if I take a break from it. I’m hoping that I will keep it up after this week is over though. It’s really fun, translating sentences, they’re like little puzzles. I imagine it’d be like Sudoku or acrostics if I were into them.

One of the best things about the summer school is the extra stuff organised. Yesterday, I went to a lecture on Roman values and today, I did a class on scansion which was brilliant. Hopefully, I’ll get round to writing up some of my notes. The scansion class also kindled a bit of a desire to get back to English poetry again. So much stuff to learn (and relearn, damn my terrible memory!), so little time.

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