Olympic bid
Jul. 6th, 2005 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaletianHuh. That was unexpected. Throughout this whole process I have been unremittingly cynical about the whole Olympics thing, but in the last fwe days my patriotic fervour has been poked and I've been quite indignant that other countries might not think we were good enough. Now we've got it, I'm partly pleased and partly anticipating with not a little dread the inevitable slew of 'planned engineering works' that are heading this way all to swiftly...
And I was reading one of my Latin text books on the train, and the guy next to me suddenly announced to his companion that he had blatantly been reading over my shoulder, and he remembered much more Latin from school than he had thought! 'Twas most amusing. And I was proud of myself, because I translated a whole page (detailing the wonder that was Adventus Agricolae) completely, not even glossing over the bits I wasn't sure of, and even making sure that, even when I understood the sentence, I actually understood the grammatical syntax etc. Huzzah for me! Yet again.
And I was reading one of my Latin text books on the train, and the guy next to me suddenly announced to his companion that he had blatantly been reading over my shoulder, and he remembered much more Latin from school than he had thought! 'Twas most amusing. And I was proud of myself, because I translated a whole page (detailing the wonder that was Adventus Agricolae) completely, not even glossing over the bits I wasn't sure of, and even making sure that, even when I understood the sentence, I actually understood the grammatical syntax etc. Huzzah for me! Yet again.
