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Thread #163388 Message #3899358
Posted By: Senoufou
13-Jan-18 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your former odd jobs
Subject: RE: BS: Your former odd jobs
I did the same, Tattie. I saved up my pay, and took 'student flights' (my word they were cheap and an excellent way to see the world!) to many places: all over the Greek islands, France, Turkey, Spain, Morocco, all on my own. (There didn't seem to be the dangers that exist now for lone female travellers, although I was once offered marijuana by a seedy-looking chap in Tangier)
I wanted to ask Joe: Which Latin textbook did you use when tutoring Latin please? We had Kennedy's, and though almost Victorian, it was very clear and easy to follow. We only had two years to get the 'O'level, so we had very naughty English 'cribs' of Caesar's 'Bellum Gallicum'. I still remember 'Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est'. Yawn yawn zzzzzzzzz
But in Kennedy's, Marcus and his mates were always going down the forum and the schoolteacher seemed to be forever beating his pupils, which was rather more entertaining!