Week 10 in Greek
I’m going to do things a little out of order this week for obvious reasons. So here is the rundown of the material we covered the final week. Chapter 38: The Optative Mood of the Verb Chapter 39: Contrary to Fact Conditional Sentences and Conspectus of Conditional Sentences Chapter 40: Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns, and Further Uses of autos Chapter 41: Voelz’s Fundamental Greek Grammar in 9 weeks. The last week for me centered around my review of parsing verbs/nouns.  Review of the subjunctive, participles, imperatives, and principal parts. Add in homework for every night made for some long days. Although, I did do a good jo

Week 9 of Greek
1 Week to Go We are all slowing down now. We see the end is in site, but we still have at least 3-4 days worth of material to get through before the we get the qualifier.   Material Covered this Week Chapter 33: Active Forms of the Verbs didomi and tithemi (English spelling since WordPress doesn’t have Greek fonts for me) Chapter 34: Middle and Passive Forms of the Verbs (see Chapter 33) Chapter 35: The Verb istemi Chapter 36: Irregular Adjectives, and Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs Chapter 37: Case Usages Side Note: We spent Saturday on the road heading to Bloomingto

Week 8 in Greek
This week has been somewhat of a break through in Greek even if it didn’t exactly show in exams. There has been a number of changes in my test taking. Use headphones to cancel out distractions around me. Move to a different room. Start earlier so not to feel rushed. Relaxation techniques to reduce the anxiety before the tests. Now the latest change. Move into a different room by myself so that I can talk things through verbally. This seems to be working after a quick test with Dr. Gibbs.  Huge thank you goes out to Rev. Gibbs and his wife Renee for recognizing this based on in class performance/participation.  I hadn’t given up, but I was feeling very defeated ju

Pleasant thoughts…
Sometimes when times get tough. We look back on something that was said to us or we experienced. For myself and my family it could be any number of things.  The afternoon after our last service at CTGS before departing for Saint Louis, MO., I recieved a wall message from a fellow elder and at the time Vice Chairman of the congreation. It brought myself and Linda to tears as we drove to Bloomington, IN to drop the kids off so we could focus on finishing packing. Since this is my blog and at times I need to refer back to wise friends. This isn’t to boast, but to encourage one another. This time it was me needing the encouragement. At times our logic allows doubt to

Week 6 in Greek
We are officially past the half way point.  We’ve been informed that evidently we’ve been going at around 35 mph up until this point. Now, we are going to speed up to 75 mph and maintain it until the end. Dr. Gibbs was at a Pastor Conference. So we had Dr. Lewis instructing us for the day. I think many of us had forgotten how different instructors potentially can be in regards to how they approach their classes. This may have come at the right time to prepare us for post Greek. Post Fundamental Greek Grammar means Fundamental Hebrew is next up along with Greek Readings.  Dr. Gibbs wasn’t kidding as things really did speed up this week.  Funny thing is th