CHATTAHOOCHEE
Eric Wang
drinking water to people in need. The fund-raiser encourages students to send flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day. Red carnations express love; pink, friendship; and white, secret admiration. Furthermore, each flower will bear a corresponding message in Latin. Among the various quotations are: omnia vincit amor; nōs et cēdāmus amōrī (in red); amīcitiae nostrae memōriam spērō sempiternam fōre (in pink); oculīs nostrīs congressīs cor meum micat (in white). Each carnation sells for one dollar, all of the profits of which will go directly to charity: water. Zoey Brown, third-year Latin student and current cōnsul, selected this organization from the host of many higly regarded non-profits featured on Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org) which rates the efficacy of charitable organizations. Sodālitās members will deliver the carnations on Friday, February 11th, just hours before they leave for Athens, Greece for a winterlude study tour.
To show that Latin was the best language in the school, the Chattahoochee JCL teamed up with the school’s foreign language club to create a Latin Culture night to celebrate the upcoming Saturnalia. Excited to give the student body a new experience, the two brilliant clubs collaborated for weeks of preparation for not only to create an awesome experience but also an enlightening one. Taking the officers’ previous involvements with state conventions and fall forums, the group decided to give everyone the full familiarity of a saturnalian festival. With dancing, cuisines, and culture in mind, cohorts were created to teach the Latin life to excited students who may have never known about the Latin life style. The students were only required to bring themselves and a gift to the event. The gift was for the famous White elephant gift exchange. In the past, there was no “culture” night to give the school a chance to know real Latin, so this year, the JCL officers really strived to show their passion and persuade them that Latin is a great language and culture to learn.
On the fateful day as an entire hallway was filling with students, the centurions, Eric Wang, Nishant Sinha, and Daniel Li, did their last preparation for teaching their expert craft. Gathering to celebrate the Roman god, Saturn, each cohort rotated stations to learn Greek dancing, the Bullae, and Roman delicacies. Centurion Eric Wang was in charge for exercising the pupils on the empire’s art in Greek dancing. To completely dance the entire musical track was the goal of each group, but the task seemed too difficult for most groups. With the arms locked with one another, only one group managed to finish the task at hand while the Spartan-like centurion worked with each group meticulously. After the exhaustion, food was provided by several officers’ led by Daniel. The feast garnered was perfect for the starving academics that had need for a large cuisine in them. Lastly, to digest their filled bellies, Nishant led students to learn and create the bullae roman citizens lived with since their birth. After all the great activities thought by the two clubs only one thing remained for the festival.
Before everyone had to leave for their own activities, Mrs. Walton led people in the White elephant gift exchange. Excited to gain something new of their own, everyone frantically exchanged gifts in cadence to the complicated story of Mrs. Right and Mr. Left (a white elephant gift exchange story). At the end of the day, some people were excited with their gifts and some were disappointed, but everyone agreed that the day was one to be remembered.