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[cybermule]

Snow!

Snow, snow, snow!

Ironically, I did a tour of inspection of my garden yesterday, and all the important things (such as trees and herbs) had buds on. Not sure how long they'll keep them now, but at least I didn't kill anything crucial. There are a load of daffs and miniature irises out, and the crocuses I'd planted in the lawn had come through. Looked lovely :)

Currently spending my lunchtime desparately working on an essay about the Odyssey. Done the first draft of abotu one quarter of it. Hopefully I can get the whole first draft done before the weekend, and can then have fun at the weekend and just spend a couple of hours polishing it up.

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[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

Really? I was required to read Odyssey in high school, course that was in one of my "honors" classes (only year I was in honors English). Not sure if it was required for the "regular" classes. Probably only if you took the right English IV (my school let you specialize your English class your senior year. Had like 6 specialty classes, I took the "Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror" one, of course, but the teacher preferred horror so there was little Sci-Fi or Fantasy *sniffle*).

I took 3 years of German and was never required to read anything longer than 2 pages. 4th year German you had to read Faust though (of course in the actual German).

I got bored one summer and read the Inferno portion of the Divine Comedy in it's original language. Didn't understand a word of it, but it was an interesting thing to do. (Also have an english translation so read that after the original).

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yeah - we don't really have honours subjects at High School. We just tend to focus down to one or two subjects. I went for science and mathematics - if we'd got to do the Odyssey in English, I would have done that instead. Unfortunately, schools over here are a bit Shakespeare fixated, and you have to wait to degree level to do more CLassical stuff :P