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I've studied Latin for six years in highschool and I do miss it now, I've already forgotten so much. Some of my friends study Latin on university-level and they learn so many interesting things, I'm jalous (although ancient Hebrew is pretty cool too, I'm learning that now).
My friends can actually speak Latin semi-fluently, it's not always grammatically correct, but they can understand each other. Until some years ago, university teachers gave their Latin lessons in Latin, and oral exams were in Latin too, but they don't do that anymore. Yesterday I went to one of my Latin-studying friends' birthday, and one of her classmates wrote a poem for her in Latin, and another one wrote a Greek poem for her, it's so cool when you can do that.
In Belgium there's a Latin-contest, where students from different highschools translate a text, and the best students win a price. My friend won the contest last year and she could go on a trip to Rome during a schoolweek, everybody envied her off course.
What are your favourite Latin writers? I'm especially fond of Catullus, his poems are naughty, funny and witty at the same time. Horatius has written some pretty cool stuff too, and I also enjoyed reading Plinius' text about the Vesuvius.
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