Learning to read all over again.

The Latin alphabet is a wonderful thing. 26 recognizable characters consisting of 5 vowels and 21 consonants. Easy-peasy. The Nepali alphabet, however, consists of seemingly meaningless symbols consisting of 11 vowels and 33 consonants. Not so easy-peasy. But, alas, I must learn it. Seemingly meaningless must become apparently meaningful.

As a kid, my mom used to read me the story The Old Man Who Could Not Read by Irma Simonton Black. The story is about a man who could not read, but was sent to the market anyways. He bought everything by looking at the shapes and colors of the boxes. When he got home, however, he realized everything was wrong. The spaghetti was not spaghetti, it was wax paper. He exclaimed, "Wife, please teach me to read!"

Lord, please teach me Nepali!