Greek - Day One

Okay, I've been out of the "student" mode for a little while, but I didn't know I was this rusty. During my 3 hour Greek class this morning, I started having flashbacks to my first day in college Calculus back at Messiah. That class was one of the main reasons I switched from being a Computer Science major to being a Music Education major.

I was hoping that on the first day, we'd learn the alphabet - spend a while practicing writing the letters and learning their sounds, maybe look at some vocabulary words ... we'll we did all of that in about 25 minutes! Then we moved into different types of nouns - declinations and parsings, articles and the like. Needless to say my head started swimming - I couldn't copy the notes off the board without getting behind. My brain just doesn't process new information the way it used to.

Anyway, I took the kids over to our playground this afternoon and spent an hour or so going over the material, and feel slightly less stressed about the whole thing. It is confusing though ... trying to train your brain to look at a letter that looks like an "n" and know that it's more like an "e"; the "u" is really an "m"; the "w" is an "o" and on it goes. I'll adjust I'm sure, but the statement "It's all Greek to me" makes so much more sense today than it did yesterday.