Learning hieroglyphs in Beirut...
Can you write your name in hieroglyphs?
It’s amazing how this introductory exercise in decipherment helps them to remember the names of their fellow students much more than if we just introduced ourselves by reading the attendance list aloud. Today, they were able to recall almost every name from memory–which was surprising since it’s not a small class…
You are a person fit for writing, though you have not yet known a woman. Your heart discerns, your fingers are skilled, your mouth is apt for reciting. Writing is more enjoyable than enjoying a basket of…and beans–more enjoyable than a mother’s giving birth, when her heart knows no distaste. She is constant in nursing her son; her breast is in his mouth every day. Happy is the heart [of] him who writes; he is young each day.
— Papyrus Lansing
