I received the package containing my MOCs that went to Brickfair (Viridian, Ellengo, and Grievous) today.

Inside were a bunch of Mardi Gras beads.

(the picture's blurry, but I don't care)

I do not know whose idea these were, but they are absolutely fabulous. I suspect KIE was involved. Just because. But I do not know whether Sméag, DV, Mak, Kohaku, Six, and Rayg were or were not. Even if they weren't, they're still awesome (that refers to the people, but the beads are too).

You probably want to hear about the first day of school, too.

It was good. My grade lost three people, but gained three more, two foreign students from Italy and Romania, and one from Korea (I -think-) who had spent time elsewhere in the U.S. before. My Latin class is now only four people, Ally and Adam and I being the only ones who've been there all four years... I miss Leigh Ann. But we have Dr. Jones again! This class is going to be totally amazing. It's AP Latin, Catullus and Ovid edition, and we translated two-thirds of the required Metamorphoses two years ago. It's going to be so easy. And SO MUCH FUN because we'll go off on all sorts of awesome tangents.

Also, AP US is going to be interesting. It's the inverse of AP Euro last year: then there were us four Juniors and a bunch of Seniors; this year there are us three Seniors and a whole bunch of Juniors.

And I am going to DIE in Calc BC. We're only fifteen minutes in (shortened classes today) and I already have no idea what's going on, nor does anyone else. It's going to be like Advanced Algebra all over again. However, in the end we'll have way more practice than we need for the exam, or that's what the teacher we had last year says...

But Greek will be interesting. It's just the two of us, Dr. Jones and I, this year, since Katie graduated... We went down to the creek and under the bridge, since it's all dry now; we intend to have classes down there at some point... for today we just wrote scandalous Greek words in chalk on the concrete. :3

And we're Seniors now. It's scary.

~ ToM