B – I – G – G – W ?

After a two week break, we gathered together last Sunday for Lesson Three. We took the break so everyone could go off and celebrate Mother’s Day with their families—except for Colleen, who was busy racing through the Baylis Beach to Dargaville Sport Northland Run/Walk. She posted a magnificent time for the 12 km course: Exactly 1 hour 39 minutes and 57 seconds—an absolutely outstanding result. There were several people from my work on the same course and Colleen’s time makes them look like they did it on stilts. Congratulations Colleen! Her next Run/Walk is in Paihia on the 30th May and she assures me that, as it’s only (!) 8km long, she’ll be finished in plenty of time to attend class that afternoon. That’s the spirit, Colleen!

We also hit the ground running on Lesson Three—right out of the gate everyone reported on the mistakes I’d made on the homework assignment. The assignment was designed to encourage everyone to focus their attention on details in Greek text such as punctuation and diacritical marks. And considering all the lapses in detailing they showed I’d had when I compiled it, I’d say everyone was focused just fine. A big Alpha for effort for everyone—except me, of course.

Βιγγω!

We then got into two rousing games of Βιγγω—which is “Bingo” written in Greek script. Everyone excelled at that, too—especially Larry; who managed to have 3 bingo’s in one game. That’s the spirit, Larry!

The Lesson proper covered the accusative and nominative case forms for 2nd declension nouns in –ος. And surprising as it might seem, we had as much fun with that as with the Βιγγω…or so I’m lead to believe after Jocelyn told me that she loved reading the Lesson notes on the blog and Trish reported that even the grammar was fun. That’s amazing—and means next week, when we do the dative, vocative and genitive cases, they’ll both be in hysterics. That’s the spirit, Ladies!


God Bless,

Ιακωβος