Doctura te saluto

[sovay]

Tomorrow afternoon, for the first time in my life, I am going to teach a class. I have summer-taught Latin. I have TA'd literature classes. I have tutored Latin and Greek. I have never been responsible for the full-semester education of eighteen young minds in the grammatical basics of Latin, with an eye toward further advancement in Classics. This will be interesting.

I must remember to buy colored chalk.

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[greyselke.livejournal.com]

Those eighteen young minds don't yet realize how lucky they are to have signed up for that Latin class.

Share with them your love of the language and of Classics and I'm sure you will do splendidly.

Does Dr. Fiveash know you are going to start teaching Latin? I'm sure he would be immensely proud.

[sovay]

I'm not even sure he knows I'm at Yale—I think the last time I saw him, I was still at Brandeis. I really should tell him one of these days. Especially since I am planning to steal his concept of "Fiveash English" for translation . . .