Carpe diem, a phrase from the Roman poet Horace, means “seize the day.” And so, Nancy Asher did. Bruriah’s Latin teacher has a class of super motivated and interesting budding linguists who are focused on learning Latin. The course is an introduction to vocabulary, the declensions of nouns and the conjugations of verbs, along with constant attention to the derivatives that this rich language has spawned. Asher addresses the culture and history of the Romans of the Classical period, including its literature and philosophies. If they meet two periods a week for 10 years, they just might get through it all…perhaps. Asher says her students “are exceptional in that many are multilingual and all are multicultural. Students find derivative words not only in English, but in Spanish, Italian and Russian, all derivative languages of the Proto-Indo European mother lode. Even her Hebrew speaking student shares insights she alone can, to elucidate certain linguistic points. Asher is a French teacher who is also presently teaching Spanish, Latin and Art and enjoying every minute of it. She says, “The goal of this class is to enrich my students with a perspective on our world which accounts for language in history, philosophy and literature. The language itself is a door to the ultimate language puzzle and my students are assiduously prying this door open, syllable by syllable.”