by Anthony Edwards ’15 Patrick Millican ’15
Language Week at Saint Ignatius kicked off this Monday with a celebration of all things Greek, which included a gyro stand on the mall and the playing of repetitive, slightly depressing traditional Greek dirges.
At the end of that rather lifeless day, excitement was restored with the beautiful weather and French music that proved completely unintelligible to even the small minority of students, known colloquially as the “Escargot ‘Cats,” that participate in this curious language.
Latin day was a complete letdown after news broke that the Chariot Races had been postponed. Spanish day is yet to happen, but we can predict that, like every other year, it will the only language day on which students have any fun whatsoever by dint of the pomp and circumstance that yearly surrounds the Food Extravaganza.
Another prediction: Someone will indeed be injured in the Chariot Races this Friday after someone falls out of their PVC-and-trash-can chariot. Hopefully, though, the annual appearance of the shopping-cart chariot proves lethal for its fateful charioteer. I think that, left, right, and center, we can agree that that would be an awesome display of language and culture that could help each and every one of us appreciate the non-stereotypical elements of world cultures that characterize Language Week at Saint Ignatius.
