Apart from the piping and the dancing, what I was looking forward to the most this year was David Gressett's class on Gaelic. I took a semester of Scottish Gaelic in junior college, so it wasn't totally new to me, but I did learn a few new things. The class was packed and lasted over an hour, but there was only enough time for a brief introduction to Gaelic phonology, a few greetings, and a smattering of grammar.

Among the people who attended the class, a man wearing a Macdonald tartan kilt and a Balmoral bonnet with two feathers and a red hackle decided to grace us with his presence.



At the end of class the teacher had us sing a traditional Gaelic folk song.