"Where is it you're adopting from? A-buck-a-man? U-mounted-Stan? What's the name???'
Me: Um, Uzbekistan.
And then you have to point it out on the map. Now that can get tricky if you are presented with pre-WW2 maps or whatnot. So, here's my trick... look for the picture in the shape.
(I know some of you have seen the last four.. but not the first. I drew it this a.m.)
Ta da!!! Look for the country shaped like a sumo wrestler! Or..
Resting camel that's facing Eastward. Or..
a dead bird... Or..
A seahorse, of course.. And finally,
A happy crab!
16 comments:
Great artistic work Tasha! I could not have done better myself!
I love this.......I'll have to print your maps out and keep them on my desk........We usually get "Youzzzbekistan? Where the hell is that?, Did you mean Pakistan?".............
Great job will have to print out for my mother .... and all I ever get is RRbekstan.... where the heck is that lol
Bwahaha. That's fantastic!! The work of the likes of Picasso, I'd say.
How funny! Where do you come up with all this stuff. LOL!
Now I'm going to have to look at Kazakhstan to see what it looks like.
I love your creative work for your child-to-be's birthhome!
Beckie
You are just brilliant! I love the dead bird--can't wait to see what you come up with when the little one gives you some crayons....
How the heck did you come up with the sumo wrestler? Brilliant!
I love the reference to all the different names people call our "stan" countries. I teach six grade Social Studies. I teach geography and the students have to memorize country locations and work their way through maps. Anyways, It's quite hysterical to hear what they call these countries. My heart was warmed the day after I told the students I was adopting from Kazakhstan, most of them properly located it on the map. Kazakhstan is easier to pronounce now that that silly movie came out. I'm just glad I'm not adopting from Djibouti!
Hillarious!!! Have fun at all those parties.
Beverly
Um can I be your friend because this is the FUNNIEST thing I have ever read. I need some Tasha in my life...i am so glad i stumbled across this!
Love it!
-Muriel
www.2kaz4sophie.blogspot.com
Nice eye! I'm gonna try that with Kyrgyzstan. The best I've been able to do so far is, "The one that's shaped like a pancreas."
-Suzanne
ha ha me too! i figured that out about halfway thru reading your posts. how exciting to have a fellow blogger nearby
Hey, how come 6th graders can pronounce Kazakhstan but half my family can't? Do you know how long I spent with them tonight at Christmas helping them try to figure it out. And my stepdad finally saying to my uncle, "Yeah, we can't pronounce it either". I think I talk to him everyday and say it to him and he STILL can't pronounce it?!?!
And do you know how many times I have to tell people, "It's right under Russia"?
Great posts!!
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