NOSREDNA SESSIM

Mrs Anderson may have been a better teacher than I thought she was...hmm, no,...Mrs Anderson was a pretty nice person, a so so teacher, but we probably could have given her more respect than we did. I think part of the problem was that the second year we had her, the class was at 7:20 AM, much too early to be conjugating verbs or memorizing declensions of nouns. Many of us slept. We all had our poses. Mine was book on desk, shoulders on desk, hands creating a blind around my face so she couldn't see my eyes. We stayed just concious enough to hear her call on us, we didn't know the answers anyway, well I didn't, and I presumed the only two who did were Mike and possibly Kevin. Gina, I remember was a lush, though I didn't know what that was at the time. And poor poor Keenan. Mrs. Anderson should have paid more attention. Cheating was rampant, not that it helped me much, The times I cheated I did poorly anyway. Mrs. Anderson spoke several languages, she just could not figure out how to motivate us, perhaps she should have immersed us, like on the first day when we learned that "Flavia cantat dum Cornelia dormiet", or was it "dormiebat", i mean that was interesting. "Ago bene, et tu?" how can you forget that? Mrs. Anderson was a pretty cool teacher though, she wasn't mean to us, she let us spend all of the Latin club money on a float, and on a trip to the Getty museum, maybe it was because Latin is a dead language that made the subject harder, or was it her accent, I don't know. I would say Mrs Anderson was not a bad teacher, but she wasn't a very good one either, at least in Latin.