Well, I was a big girl this time and I got it done. Thankfully, I was not traumatized, but when I was asked to read the letters on the wall, my initial reaction was to start reading from right to left. The letters formed foreign words (so to speak,) so it was natural for me to think like reading Hebrew and try to read from the right.
It's so interesting how our minds work sometimes---just thought I'd share :-)