005. πρώτη Δευτέρα: Or the day we met Inmanuel and Mark

On this day we had our first encounter with our first new language to learn: Greek! After morning meeting we had individual work time and then we had Moris Polanco visiting us for the first time to help us to work on our greek. We had a little bit of confusion since we had our book “BASIC GREEK: In 30 minutes a day” by James Found and Moris also had a book that he like written by Foulkes. In grammar they agree but is in pronunciation that they don’t since Found’s uses the Erasmian pronunciation that is a rationalized approximation to what ancient greeks might or might not talked like and Foulkes uses the modern pronunciation.

Readings:

We also meet what will be our friends (at least mine I can tell that for sure) from now on. We met the delightful Inmanuel Kant and the witty Mark Twain. Well not in person but we start reading the following articles: What is enlightenment by Kant and Corn Pone Opinions by Twain. Both articles even when seemingly distant in time they talk about the human nature and how society works. We also had a very interesting dialogue that made arise the natural inquiry of the pioneers. We asked about what does he meant by enlightenment and we also start developing our rubrics.

Video:

After performance arts we watched the video “Vida, libertad y conciencia” by Fredy Koffman. This was my third time watching the video but since I’m in another context I loved it again especially because I related to the MPC. I learned from Freddy Koffman that we are responsible of our own actions and that far from being something ugly is beautiful. I also learned that the price of innocence is impotence, and that quote honestly will haunt me (for good or ill) for the rest of my life. I also realized that what is important is not the fact of that we got good results or not (and that might be a really happy experience too) but what is most important is that you stick to your values and to your principles. If you manage to keep doing this you will realize how much happiness you can derive from it; your house would be built in solid rock. And the story about the guy asking the girl out to dance is really amazing because even when he didn’t achieved his goal to get her to dance he was happy because he dared to ask! I want to be a tiger!