I had planed a couple of topics to write long detailed blogs about, for this week and next, however I have my last ever Latin reading competition tomorrow, which is all I can think about, so I'll write about that instead.

I've so far done two Latin reading competitions, the first one last year I absolutely hated, and the one this year I hated the ( Read more... )

The past week and a half have been "ask Jenny things about being English/living in England" and so now I'm going to answer the questions! Thank you Jez for lots of questions :).

Do you have year-round schooling? Is summer semester required?  
Our school term goes from September to July, and has three terms, autumn (from September to mid December) ( Read more... )

I have no idea where to start with Bryanston, so I'll being by explaining why it exists! There aren't many schools left which teach Latin, and fewer even that teach Ancient Greek, for example, the majority of people I have spoken to have learnt Greek during their lunch break, or after school. So the “Joint Association of Classics Teachers” each ( Read more... )

I know most of you have watched Doctor Who, but I don't know if you've seen Torchwood. It's in its third season now, although it's actually a mini series of 5 episodes, which are airing one per night for this week. Torchwood is like Doctor Who's older, cruder, more violent brother. It's centred around Captain Jack Harkness, and has had it's share ( Read more... )

I have nothing to talk about! I'm still reading Catch 22 since I didn't read much over the holidays, so I can't even talk about that...

The only lessons I had today were two maths lessons first thing, and then my Latin lessons were cancelled so I sat outside in the sun for the rest of the morning. I love the sun, I really can't stand winter. Have ( Read more... )

How are you all? I’m good, it’s been gloriously sunny today and we spent the last half hour of school sitting on the centre lawn playing cards! (The last lesson was cancelled to have a talk about universities, and it finished early.)

Anyways, onto talking about my friends...

Since I introduced arkeiryn ie. Cat last week I don't really need to say much, ( Read more... )

Hi girls!

So, if anyone’s seen my daily booth, I said I was going to talk about “The Demon’s Lexicon”. It’s by the author Sarah Rees Brennan, who has a very funny livejournal sarahtales  and she organised the castle that Maureen Johnson is currently at! The copy I have is an advanced reader’s copy, which I won in a competition, since the book is coming out in ( Read more... )