girldetective

Just like everyone's favorite uncle above, the world opened up to me in fifth grade under Ms. Parkinson's guidance. It was India that piqued my interest then and I molded a clay cow, painted it black, and painted colorful flowers as a necklace. It did not win any awards. From then on though I was hooked. Before then I was aware of the world through National Geographic and their maps. It was a favorite pasttime of mine to gather the maps, spread them out, and peruse them at length. I did this regularly, usually on Saturday mornings or Sunday afternoons. If something struck me as interesting I would then get a library book on it when my mom took me for my weekly trip. Now that I think about it, most of my world knowledge came first from maps or charts.

Fifth grade was also when we started learning a little bit about world cultures, religions, governments, social systems, and so forth. It snowballed from there through the rest of school. In addition, there were books, newspapers, dinner conversations, and so forth. Being the youngest in the family, sometimes I had a tendency to be left out but there were those moments when someone took pity and explained to me so that I had a clue.

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