By Lucas Greifzu – Staff Reporter

The Jonathan Law Latin Club meets every other Thursday right after school in the upstairs computer lab to learn about Roman culture and to discuss upcoming trips and fundraisers.

While the Latin cCub takes a good number of trips and does a lot of fundraisers every year, their biggest trip is  to Holiday Hill for Latin Day. They also are planning a trip to New York very soon.

“Latin Club is a club to celebrate ancient culture,” Latin Club advisor Mrs. Furst said. “It is also an opportunity for students to explore their own interests in the ancient world.”

The club learns about ancient Latin and Roman culture in many ways. For example, they make chocolate dormice, as well as celebrate Saturnalia, which is a Christmas like holiday celebrated in December.

“Some previous activities that we have done include celebrating Saturnalia,” Furst said. “We have also made dormice out of chocolate.”

The Latin Club also has another large field trip planned for the rest of the year. They are taking a trip into New York City to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“The Latin Club also goes on field trips,” Latin Club officer Noah Golden said. “We are going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to learn about Latin culture.”

Latin Club discusses ancient Latin and Roman culture, students don’t have to be enrolled in a Latin class in order to be in the club. 

“There is a connection between the class and club, but you do not have to take Latin to be in the club,” Furst said. “It is a great opportunity to see what Jonathan Law High School Latin is about.”

A lot of things happen in the Latin Club meetings other than the activities about ancient Latin and Roman culture. They also discuss upcoming trips and how they plan to pay for them.

“In the meetings we plan out the trips that we are going to take to holiday hill for Latin day and to the metropolitan art museum,” Latin Club sophomore Anish Sikhinam said. “We also plan out our fundraisers to pay for those trips.”

The Latin Club also has a Twitter account. There they post about Latin culture and tweet Latin memes.

“I run the Twitter account with Noah,” Latin Club member and sophomore Oliver Steele said. “We also try to make our Twitter as humorous as possible; if you care to follow the Latin club Twitter it’s @JLHSLatinClub.”