Symposium

I learned the word "symposium" in 9th grade. The English teacher was teaching about it, the ancient Greeks getting together to discuss stories or plays. Then we needed to have our own symposium, as ninth graders, and discuss whatever we were reading.

I looked it up today. She should've taught us this, that it's a word that comes from these parts, "syn" and "pinein," which would be "together" and "to drink," with the "po" seen more clearly in the word "potable." The Greeks got together and drank while they talked over the theater or whatever the subject was.

I so much wish I would've learned more in school and would've known some of this stuff at the time. But I sat there bored like everyone else.