Туалетно-географическое Географию в школе нам преподавали плохо (уж...

Toilet geographic

Geography at school was taught to us poorly (with all due respect, Lyudmil Mikhalna), so my knowledge of this subject is limited to coloring contour maps. After graduating from high school, I went to study at a St. Petersburg university, fortunately not for a geographer, but, God forgive me, a sociologist and computer scientist, which in general also quite bizarrely fell on my humanitarian soul. But now is not about that.
So the younger sister Anka, being a student of the same geography, but a student of more stubborn and purposeful, decided to take the study of geography into her own hands and learn the capitals of all countries of the world. To do this, she created several tables, consisting of two columns: the country and its capital, printed this case and hung ... where? Right, to the toilet. On the wall to the right of the toilet. Now, with the advent of smartphones and home Wi-Fi, you can have fun in the toilet for hours. And before, the best toilet paper we had was a sea breeze air freshener, or, at worst, the Plus advertising newspaper, which, after shredding, was intended for cat trays. So the list of capitals in the toilet turned out to be a very interesting idea.
When I returned home for the holidays, I already had a simple Nokia 2100 with a wonderful flashlight and the game "Snake". Therefore, during a meeting in the room of thought, it was possible to fatten a pixel worm or write sentimental SMS to the current admirer. I don’t remember what I was doing in the bathroom at that time, but as soon as I opened the door, startled with surprise, I ran nose to nose with Anka, who was grazing me at the exit. As soon as I managed to figure something out, she peremptorily asked me the same murderous question:
- WHICH CAPITALS LEARNED?
- Eeeeeee .... - I was taken by surprise, so my visual memory began to intensively search for the right answer. As a result, the first line of the first table surfaced before my eyes, and I blurted out in one word: AustriaVienna!
Anka neighing in a voice. It became clear to her that in studying capitals I had reached my ceiling. She, in general, was extremely close to the truth. Because with this case I still have a complete seam. From the series: I hear Beirut somewhere, hmmmm ... what a beautiful combination of letters, and where is it? (Opening Google.maps) Oh! It turns out to be Lebanon. Honest mother, where is he? Nifiga itself, Lebanon borders on Israel and Syria! Come on! Is there also access to the sea? To go nuts! And not some sea, but the Mediterranean. I swam in it several times, and each time from different shores / countries ... That's how I live. As one acquaintance of Oksanka says, “all the charm of novelty.”
And then the toilet was repaired and the capital left along with the old tile. But smartphones came, and all the magic of knowledge was dissolved in information available at any second. But after many, many years one day, the charm of the process of acquiring new knowledge in the room of thought came back! In the bins, I found something like a "boring English for children", which was presented to me for participating in a performance in English in the sixth grade. Then the tasks seemed unrealistically difficult to me. And now, at the age of thirty, just right. Boring English moved to the toilet, and away we go! Moreover, not only with me, but also with my curious parent. Periodically, dad writes to me: I learned a new word from the same workbook! You know what a ventriloquist is? Hospadi sorry dad! I could not even read this word the first time, and even its meaning ...