PARKVIEW
Grace Xu
During 8th Grade Recruitment Night, current Parkview Latin students spoke on behalf of the program to encourage rising freshmen to register for Latin I courses. NLHS members prepared a bulletin board with pictures of classical landmarks and fun JCL activities and also distributed promotional pamphlets to over a hundred eager students. In particular, students emphasized the benefits of joining JCL to participate in statewide conventions and a wide array of competitions to celebrate the classics. Parkview JCL is also widely renowned for its gladiator fights at workshops and regularly hosts tournaments for students to participate in.
The Latin program at Parkview has grown tremendously over the past few years, starting as the smallest foreign language program and gradually growing to become the second largest program, currently serving over six hundred students.
"At first, I enrolled in Latin because I was interested in learning more about Roman history and culture. But as the years went by, Latin became my favorite class, and I hope to continue to study Latin in college because my teachers have inspired me," remarks AP Latin student Nati Gebre. With four wonderful teachers and limitless opportunities, the program continues to flourish, as students actively learn spoken Latin and vocabulary words through fun classroom activities.
MILTON
Cassandra Lund
On February 24th, the members of the Milton Junior Classical League met at the local bowling alley on an early release day for some bowling and laser tag. Festivities began at 2:00 and lasted for several hours. Shortly after the MJCL members entered, the bowling alley employees quickly, upon seeing an unchaperoned group of teenagers, shuffled the Latin club to the unoccupied side of the bowling alley, where fun (and some craziness) ensured. Most bowlers ended up hitting a strike at some point during this madness, if only out of sheer luck (Latin students, by some strange coincidence, do not happen to be good bowlers). Pizza and soda was ordered, and soon enough, sugar took over, and the group moved to laser tag.
After about ten minutes of bothering many employees and being misdirected many times, the fifteen remaining MJCL members suited up for laser tag. Once at least ten minutes had been spent trying to put on vests, practicing with the laser tag guns, and ignoring the safety video, MJCL members were released into the laser tag room for the allotted time. The red team dominated early, taking control of the upper level, but the blue team surged back by ambushing team red, taking the upper level, before sniping and blocking the red team out for the rest of the time. The blue team ended up winning in a thrilling comeback performance, but everyone had a good time.
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