25 Tammuz/7 July, 2010
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bearshortyA month of Latin: Chapters 5 and 6. Future and Imperfect tense of first and second conjugation, sum and possum. Those are easy to remember. I think most of my review today paid more attention to subtle meaning of some vocabulary words. I discovered that plural ‘animi, -orum’ can also mean “pride” or “courage” which I never realized. And ‘supplicium’ means ‘punishment’ and ‘angustus’ means ‘narrow.’ And, no matter how many time I review I always forget that “peritus, -a, -um” means ‘skillful.’ (I need to remember that is how we get the word ‘expect’ in English) On a brighter note, I didn’t need to look up any vocabulary in the reading practice they give in each chapter; of course, it is all pretty basic. I was also happy to note that, somehow, I never have problems anymore while reading a sentence in distinguishing what part of sentence the word is – a subject, an object, genitive or verb or where the adjective belongs. I think through years and years of practicing Latin (even in not looking at much in the last four years) it all sunk into my brain. Yay.
This evening I went to a funeral. Yeva’s grandfather died a few days ago and I wanted to be there for her. My parents drove me to Brooklyn. I was only going to stay for half an hour until they picked me up, but Yeva asked me to stay longer, so I sent them home. Marianna and Adama came as well. Yeva’s Mom and Uncle asked me to read the Mourner’s Kadish (they had Russian/Hebrew prayer book) so I read Hebrew transliteration and the Russian version. And then we sat there and talked and, hopefully, made the process a bit easier for Yeva. Her grandfather lived a long, full life and he was a good man who was always very friendly even if he couldn’t speak to us. May the earth be like down feathers for him (this is a Russian equivalent to ‘rest in peace’).
After the viewing and the time in the funeral home, we went to the Uzbek restaurant to sit and eat and commemorate. We went in a car with Yeva’s friend Ira, who is very vivacious. Yeva’s friend Vito also came and this was his first Russian type restaurant. There was a lot of food. I wish the circumstances of our gathering were better but it was really nice to see everyone. After 10pm, I got a ride to my bus and waited a bit and just arrived home, ready to just go to sleep.
This evening I went to a funeral. Yeva’s grandfather died a few days ago and I wanted to be there for her. My parents drove me to Brooklyn. I was only going to stay for half an hour until they picked me up, but Yeva asked me to stay longer, so I sent them home. Marianna and Adama came as well. Yeva’s Mom and Uncle asked me to read the Mourner’s Kadish (they had Russian/Hebrew prayer book) so I read Hebrew transliteration and the Russian version. And then we sat there and talked and, hopefully, made the process a bit easier for Yeva. Her grandfather lived a long, full life and he was a good man who was always very friendly even if he couldn’t speak to us. May the earth be like down feathers for him (this is a Russian equivalent to ‘rest in peace’).
After the viewing and the time in the funeral home, we went to the Uzbek restaurant to sit and eat and commemorate. We went in a car with Yeva’s friend Ira, who is very vivacious. Yeva’s friend Vito also came and this was his first Russian type restaurant. There was a lot of food. I wish the circumstances of our gathering were better but it was really nice to see everyone. After 10pm, I got a ride to my bus and waited a bit and just arrived home, ready to just go to sleep.