Y'know, I was looking at the world map today in class, and I noticed that they had put Australia in green. So I sarcasticaly asked my teacher," Sir, look! They put Australia in green!"
He did not immeidietly recongnize the crisis. " So?" he said, " why's that matter?"
" Well sir, I thought Australia was red."
" Yeah, it is." he seemed not to really care.
" Then why is it green!?" I demanded.
" Well, its probably... um...like....wait, whats this have to do with math?"
" are you telling me that you see an error in this classroom and dont care? Do you not beleive in truth and justice?!"
He decided to stop right there without answering my accusation. Instead, he went on about the Big Plan to finish math today (at least thats how it sounded). However, our next teacher walked in minutes later, before we had a chance to finish. So she waited on the side for us to wrap up. I took that chance to ask her," sir, have you ever noticed that Australia is green on the map?"
"Sir?" She responded.
" I mean, isn't it red?"
Now this teacher has peculiar accent, becuase she was born in Texas but has been teaching in Canada for the past eight years. So she drawled" well, son, I think its mohre to do with our atitoode toowahds Austraaliya. When its green, it meens theha aw friends."
I decided to stop there, mostly becuase it would take a couple of minutes to seperate words from accent. I never got a chance to ask her again. Besides, I realized the whole map was contreversal. Russia in red? South Africa in purple? I dont know about the mapmakers, but I'm content stepping outside and seeing green grass, not orange. So whats up with that?