It's Greek to Me

I am learning Greek! It is from my pastor since OSU does not offer it (and driving down to the ugly school down south is NOT an option!). So far I have just started learning the letters. So far I can write the lowercase letters for the first 12 letters, as well as others, out of 24 total. It won't help me identify much in Greek Life since the actual language rarely uses uppercase, so seeing these boring sweatshirts all over campus will continue to look Greek to me. Haha.

 So far, learning the letters has gotten me wondering if our lowercase letters were mostly borrowed from Greek as I can really see how some letters written sloppily could turn into English letters, and looking at some modern Greek examples compared to the Greek of the New Testament (the type I am learning), I can see this even more. As I learn the alphabet, my other task is to start copying down the first three verses of John from the New Testament so I can start getting used to the letters, as well as some other marks which accompany the vowels. It looks like it will be a long and arduous process for learning this, but it will be worth it when I show up to Seminary with a heads-up on an important subject.