Geography

[poliphilo]

 We Europeans like to mock Americans for their ignorance of Geography but I've got to admit that ahead of Sunday's talk I couldn't have placed Guatemala on a map except to say it was in the western hemisphere and somewhere south of the United States.

Neither Ailz nor I enjoyed Geography lessons at school. I don't rember much about mine apart from being required to draw contour lines- which I didn't understand and never got right- and having a teacher who was a stranger to soap and water. Most adult males in that era stank of tobacco (which I quite liked) but this fellow just stank.

Our plan to send Terry to Thailand in the care of Wendy and Mary has fallen through. Terry isn't well enough.

And where exactly is Thailand? "Erm, somewhere over there" (waves arm distractedly in the direction of Bexhill.)

Comments

[paserbyp]

I liked Geography and History from school. Specially, History of Geography about how World Map was changed during human history. However, school give me just knowledge for beginners and I continue to learning all my life and every time learned something new and amazing. Specially, about Byzantine Empire, Arab Emirate and Khazar Khaganate which from school I didn't know nothing at all..

[poliphilo]

I always liked History- and Geography interests me now in a way it never did when I was in school.