I think we all have a few areas where we have knowledge and skills which are generally considered less useful, like party tricks or silly facts. You might know all of the US presidents and their wives and children, how you build a boat out of matches etc etc. It’s pointless, and really fun. One of my favourites is countries; I take pride in knowing their shape on a map, their flag and, most importantly, their capital.

I took a quiz today and I realised I didn’t even know the capital of Canada (you don’t have to google it, it’s Ottawa), and it was horrifying, so I decided to change this. I could just have started reading about random countries, but as I am a teacher, I know you need to repeat things to learn them. You need to see them, hear them, write them and preferably touch them. I can’t touch the countries, but the rest I’m going to do by writing a post about a country each week :) I will of course include shape, flag and capital, but also try to find some more interesting facts about the country.

My plan was to use Sundays for this, but as it’s already Monday now, I think it will be a bit flexible. Fri-Mon, somewhere around there should be good. Expect to find the first country-post soon!