As the 2020-2021 school year gets underway, we’re continuing our Meet Us Monday Blog series to introduce you to our outstanding ILS teachers and staff. Check in each week to meet or better get to know one of our new or returning faculty members.

Today, we invite you go get to know our new ILS Assistant Teacher, Miss Eleni Lemoine, with her recent “Meet Us Monday” interview.

Miss Lemoine joins our ILS faculty this year as Assistant Teacher. She will be helping in a number of classes throughout the year and also substitute teaching as needed.

What is your favorite thing about ILS?
I am most excited to work closely with the wonderful ILS staff, and to get to know the wonderful students!
What book are you currently reading?
Villette by Charlotte Brontë.
What was your favorite thing you did this summer?
I got to go to the Adirondack Mountains in New York for a week. They are stunningly beautiful.
What is one place you would like to visit but have not yet been?
My mother's family is Greek, and I studied Ancient Greek for several years, but I have never been to Greece!
What was your favorite subject/class when you were in school?
I always really loved Greek, Latin, and literature courses.
What was your favorite book as a child?
Jane Eyre, also by Charlotte Brontë.
What is your favorite scripture verse?
I always return to Psalm 90.
“Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
You turn man to destruction,
And say, “Return, O children of men.”
For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
And like a watch in the night.
You carry them away like a flood;
They are like a sleep.
In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
In the evening it is cut down and withers.
For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we are terrified.
You have set our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years like a sigh.
The days of our lives are seventy years;
And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Who knows the power of Your anger?
For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Return, O Lord!
How long?
And have compassion on Your servants.
Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!
Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us,
The years in which we have seen evil.
Let Your work appear to Your servants,
And Your glory to their children.
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
And establish the work of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the work of our hands.”