Αρχαία Ελληνικά (I'm assured this says Ancient Greek)

Yesterday was the first day of semester two. In comparison to last semester it looks like this one is way shorter and also I have one less module to work on.

This term I study:

• World Archaeology AD
• Introduction to Greek History
• Greek Language

I am in for even less hours than last term. My weeks fluctuate between seven and eight hours a week. A regular week consists of:

• Monday: 9-10am, 11-12pm
• Tuesday: 2-3pm
• Thursday: 12-1pm, 2-3pm, 3-4pm
• Friday: 12-1pm, 1-2pm

I get a day off this term which is nice. Wednesdays. And some weeks I get Mondays off too.

I had three hours of university yesterday, 9-12. First was a World Archaeology AD lecture, they introduced the module and we had a first lecture on the Roman Army and its presence across the Empire. After that we had a plenary lecture for Greek language explaining what the course would entail. That finished early so I went to the book store to buy a Greek Dictionary, I still need to get a grammar book. 

Then at 11am I had my first Greek Seminar, this was really fun. I've been looking forward to studying Greek the whole of the year, even more than Latin. Yesterday we looked at the alphabet and it's symbols and tried pronouncing words. The hardest thing is looking for words in the dictionary because the letters don't come in the same order as English. For homework we had to learn the alphabet off by heart which I have done but I still think it will take me a while to get used to it. That is one thing that will make it so much trickier than Latin. At least in Latin it's all English letters and if all else fails you can pronounce them in an English way. For Greek you can look at words you can just look at the words and literally have no idea of how to say them.

αβγδεζνθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

ΑΒΓΔΕΖΝΤΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ

I am excited to study it though. It is difficult to remember how to pronounce everything but I guess that will come in time. I did find out that I've been pronouncing all the Greek gods' names wrongly! 

I got my Latin exam results back yesterday too 88/100 which I am super pleased with! Hopefully I can at least match that with Ancient Greek.

Today I don't have to be in until 2pm so I am having a little fun this morning. Let myself sleep in until 10am then got up and made a sponge cake. It's just finished cooking and it smells so good I really want to eat it but I'm waiting for it to cool so I can put buttercream in it. In the meantime I'm watching a movie to have a little chill time. When I came back from uni yesterday I did all my follow up work so I have some time to spare. Plus when I get back this evening from Uni I'll be doing that follow up work and reading then.