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Geography Lesson
August 1st, 2008Geography was not my strong suit in school; it required lots of memorization about a lot of faraway places I’d never been to in the 6th grade. To make matters worse, geographical names for countries and cities change all the time. Seemed kind of silly to my pre-teen self.
At some level, though, I realized the utility in it. I undertook to learn what I could, which was usually just their names along with some other odd fact here and there (”Burma’s main export is jute”, etc.). Some years later, in college, I found out much more …