So whatever happened day before yesterday, I will mention in some other post...but YESTERDAY...well, my little sister happened to ask me where Zimbabwe is. I thought about it for a while, then realizing that the silence was somewhat awkward, I replied with an assuring smile, "Oh, it's somewhere in the NORTH."
"North?" she repeated in a question. "But then why are they so dark?"
I got uncomfortable. "Well, you see..."
I started to tell her "the story"...how a some thousand years ago the dinosaurs had elevated from the bed of the deep Indian ocean, scaring all the South-dwellers away, who had tanned prominently to a shiny black through centuries of life in the burning sun. They ran all the way to the north, not stopping for a breath until then.
All this time, my little sister had been watching me with interest, unblinking (0.0), imagining the stampede of green behind a petty black.
Don't believe my lame story? Well, who told you to? =P
I confess it. I never took Geography and History seriously. That is the reason I can't tell longitude from latitude, or the Arabian Sea from the Indian Ocean. What the hell are "Gulf" countries? Which is the capital of which?Rome of Italy or vice versa?
I don't even know how to read the map. Anyway, a thousand apologies for flustering your high-tech minds. Have a good rest-of-the-day!!
P.S.: It just occured to me today that we have TWO Pacifics instead of one in the Oxford world atlas. =O Look now THERE's the big blunder. =/
"North?" she repeated in a question. "But then why are they so dark?"
I got uncomfortable. "Well, you see..."
I started to tell her "the story"...how a some thousand years ago the dinosaurs had elevated from the bed of the deep Indian ocean, scaring all the South-dwellers away, who had tanned prominently to a shiny black through centuries of life in the burning sun. They ran all the way to the north, not stopping for a breath until then.
All this time, my little sister had been watching me with interest, unblinking (0.0), imagining the stampede of green behind a petty black.
Don't believe my lame story? Well, who told you to? =P
I confess it. I never took Geography and History seriously. That is the reason I can't tell longitude from latitude, or the Arabian Sea from the Indian Ocean. What the hell are "Gulf" countries? Which is the capital of which?Rome of Italy or vice versa?
I don't even know how to read the map. Anyway, a thousand apologies for flustering your high-tech minds. Have a good rest-of-the-day!!
P.S.: It just occured to me today that we have TWO Pacifics instead of one in the Oxford world atlas. =O Look now THERE's the big blunder. =/
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