Latin and Rilke

[mothwing]

I passed the Latin test!

I don't have any definite results yet, though, because the papers had to be passed from our teacher, who corrected them, to her Professor, who corrected them again, to the Dean, who has to sign them. I never knew it was such a big deal! It's only and exam, but because it's also the first "Latinum", it seems to be more of a  big deal than I would have anticipated.

Silke and I came to collect our results, but they couldn't tell us anything so I called our dear Professor at home. I don't like calling teachers, seriously. She was very nice, though, and let us know that we had both passed (much to our relief) and asked us if we liked the course and if we had at least some fun. I told her that we did and that we were also going to see her again in Latin  III. She was really happy about that. Oooh, I love her, she is such a nice woman. Absolutely kind and gentle. I'm really looking forward to the third course!

I rewarded myself with Rainer Maria Rilke's collected poems - boy, it was hard to make that decision! I hung around in that bookstore for hours, walking to and fro between the Rilke (useful), Marias' A Heart So White (have been wanting it for ages) and Kundera's Identitiy (craaaaaaave!), until the shopkeeper started hanging around me to see if I was stealing anything. Well, I was about to steal Plays Pleasant and Plays Unpleasant, by Shaw, that's true. I'd love to see them performed, though. Maybe they available on tape somewhere... hm. 

Now, I'm going to attack the scary mildew with a brush as per instruction and see if it's dead (hopefully). It sounds like a bad idea to brush it off the wall, because that's bound to send spores flying everywhere, but that's what it says on the bottle. Hm.