Mindnumbing numbers coming from SE Asia

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Mindnumbing numbers coming from SE Asia
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Wed, 12-29-2004 - 8:50pm

I have to talk about this because it's so huge.






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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 9:43am
You're probably much closer to it than the rest of us.





iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 9:45am
I am such an ignorant American when it comes to geography. I didn't know Burma was no longer a country.





iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 9:49am

I read a first hand account where they said a lot of men died because, after the first rush, they went back to the water and that many of the women just stayed put at high grounds.






iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 9:58am

Somalia isn't anywhere near SE asia, it's like 3000 miles away. Burma is still a country, it's just called Myanmar now (usually, some people still call it Burma). i don't have the link anymore. it included a lot of questions about the near east (turkmenistan, uzbekistan,

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 10:02am

Somalia was close enough that hundreds of people there died so I assumed it was closer than 3000 miles but I guess that's the nature of Tsunamis.






iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 10:08am

you don't need a class. a good world atlas will tell get you just as

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 10:21am
If I look at a map, I'll never remember it. Maybe I could get a good geography book.





iVillage Member
Registered: 05-20-2004
Thu, 12-30-2004 - 12:36pm

Part of my job is issuing country-specific information every single day for the past 2.5 years, I have a gigantic map 2 ft. away from me right now, and I am still rusty on my geography. I just know general locations - I still couldn't label a blank map of Africa or east Europe or something. Don't be too hard on yourself. It's a lot of information to soak up if you're not immersed in it daily, and it does change too.

Something you could do is get a wall map or a globe and if you see something interesting on the news, find those places with your kids. Might be fun.

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