Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Most people seem to have a lot of difficulty with them.  Almost everyone in
my little sister's second-grade class, though, can find Florida, Texas,
Michigan, Alaska, Hawaii, and California without any trouble at all.
Meanwhile, I've met upper-elementary school teachers who can't find the
state I spent most of my college years in (Ohio) and can't identify any of
the states that border it (excepting good old Michigan), either -- and
that's not even a square state in the middle of anything.  It's amusing to
shock them with the information that Ohio is in the Eastern time zone.

For my geography final project, we covered Serbia/Yugoslavia and Lithuania,
and needed to give people context in terms of how big both countries were,
so we came up with sentences like: "Yugoslavia is slightly smaller than
Kentucky – Kentucky is directly south of Ohio, which is south of Michigan
(the state that looks like a glove)."  That worked quite well, actually.

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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http://lloannna.blogspot.com

"Being captured by the Evil Overlord is one way to learn his secret plans,
but are innumerable other ways that are better, and they will be tried
first." -- Rules for the Hero

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> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:15 PM
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
> Well, while we're on states - I don't have a clue about all those square
> states in western america.
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