Okay, so I have found my new calling... sixth grade geography and art teacher! I've been substitute teaching at my old school in Greeley the past two days, and I have to say, sixth grade is awesome. What do they get to do? They get to create coloring books of the islands of Oceania, which means a class hour looking up pictures of Fiji and Kiribati and the Northern Mariana Islands. They get half an hour of SSR (silent sustained reading). They get to draw grid pictures, and play aound with those great smudgy oil pastels in art class. They have to learn the capitals of the Australian provinces and learn how to read map keys.
Dude, education is so wasted on the young. I think I've probably enjoyed the lessons way more than the kids, and have been refreshing my knowledge of world capitals and geographic features so that I will be KILLER at the next (sc)categories playoffs in Klaipeda.
In honor of sixth graders everywhere, the first person who can tell me what three nations share the island of Borneo shall recieve, courtesy of the US postal service, a piece of real mail in the form of a Colorado postcard. :) (Assuming I have your address, of course).
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Brunei Malaysia and Indonesia!
Shoot! I was too slow. Do I get an exemption for being in Europe, where it was 4:30 in the morning when you posted? :)
i was in europe too :) kudos to both of you that know such things. We may just be able to defeat the image of geo-ignorant americans yet!
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