Step One = Complete

[aderam]

I did my Latin Sight Passage for the Honours Exams today. I am now 1/4 done the exam portion of my Honours degree. (That is of course, assuming that I passed.) I felt decently good about it. I couldn't tell where the piece I had to translate was from, but it was about Jason and the Argonauts, and the stuff about boats leads me to believe that Dr. O'B picked that passage for me on purpose. It's exactly his sense of humour.

I do want to know where that passage was from though, because it was one of those passages which helps to remind me that I actually do know what the hell I'm doing. I could see the grammatical constructions even though they were basically lying on top of each other, and I knew most of the vocabulary. Also it was prose instead of poetry.

But I'm done!

And now I've got to write a paper for tomorrow. C says I should wait until after hockey (I think he's mostly joking) and I totally could finish it afterwards (I've currently got an A+ in this class, and I haven't been putting a lot of effort into it), but I might write up an outline or something. And I should get a start on my Latin homework since my brother and some other folks'll be in town this weekend (yay!) and I probably won't have time to do anything then.

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

You rock like ... Scylla? par silex?

Like an authentic Roman rock, anyway.

[aderam.livejournal.com]

saxum?

Skylla and Karybdus were the whirlpool and the many-headed sea-monster between which Odysseus and others had to travel... dangers on each side(!). I don't remember which is which though.

Thanks!

[sdaha.livejournal.com]

Well done, nautical dragonette!

So were the boats triremes? And do dragons row well? Ah no they must do the blowing on the sails thing VERY well. (When they remember NOT to flame, of course.)

Check that off your list!!