So, yesterday I decided to bare the wind, snow, and cold to go to my Humanities class.  The majority of my classmates were there and we were just chit-chatting away.  We looked at the clock and realized that Tucker is 10 minutes late; we all decided to give him until a quater after and if he wasn't there by then we would all leave.  Well five minutes later, he was a no show so we all left.  I was actually wanted to talk about the two books we had to read for yesterday.  I thought it was kind of ironic how in the last book how Turnus started to run and Aeneas decided to pursue him in the chase.  The ran in a circle about five times or so.  It reminded me how Hector and Achilles ran in circles during the final books of The Iliad by Homer.  I was not too happy with the very end of The Aeneid.  Just the idea that at the last moment, Aeneas gets an extra surge of rage and kills Turnus.  Typical ending, I guess this is where Hollywood got the idea for every movie in today's world.

Pale and Pasty

We have been reading The Clouds for Humanities which is an old Greek comedy play about Socrates.  On Tuesday we came to class and Tucker asked us to describe how the students looked at the Thinkery.  The students were scrawny, pale, and sickly looking.  Tucker asked why that was and we told him it was because the students were always inside studying.  Tucker agreed and said that they never got out to enjoy beautiful 62 degree weather.  Then, surprisingly, he told us that was our lesson for the day and to go out and enjoy the weather.  So, to enjoy the weather I went out for a walk with my suitemates.  They had to leave for work so I grabbed my book and went on C Trail to the pond.  I found my tree that branches out across the water and entered my own little world.  It was so nice and greatly needed =)  Afterwards, I went and watched my friends play some basketball, which was real entertaining.  I was outside for about three hours until the sun went down and it got chilly.

Oh!  I was finally able to wear my basketball shorts and a short sleeve shirt with no jacket!  It was real nice.

Humor

We started reading the play called The Clouds for class on Thursday.  I must admit that I did not want to read this play at first because I thought it was going to be real stupid, so I just simply skimmed our reading assignment before class.  When we got to class, we started taking notes about old greek comedy.  It is pretty amazing how so much of today's comedy is built off of their comedy in the B.C. era!  Well, during the class discussion I started to think to myself that this might actually be a pretty darn funny book.  So, I opened it and started to truely read it (not skimming) and I found myself laughing at the play within the first minute.  I cannot wait to finish reading this play!

Greek Theater

On Thursday in class Tucker lectured about the Greek Theater.  I actually found all of it pretty interesting.  I already knew that "back in the day" they did not allow any women to be a part of the theater, which I find odd.  Back then men were supposed to be the "real" men, well what kind of a real man does theater?  I would have thought that theater would be the woman's role.  I also think it's funny how the men, or should I say boys that have not hit puberty yet, played the roles of girls and women.  It is hard to believe that those "real" men would want to play the role of a woman.  Also, their theaters could seat close to 50,000 people!!!  The theaters were all outdoor too.  So, they must have had extremely loud and powerful voices to have all 50,000 people hear them.  Back then there were no such thing as microphones or megaphones.  How did they get their whole audience to hear them?  That's my question!