Shoes, "Where's that?" and geography

[firefightermichelle]

Hey everyone!  Just thought I'd ring in on a couple of subjects :)

I hardly ever, adn most the people I know hardly ever, put their 
shoes on their beds.  If I could, I probably wouldn't wear shoes at 
all :)  Except on Florida pavement in the summer .... shoes required 
then.  At work, we are allowed to take naps (rough isn't it?) and 
getting shoes on and off rapidly is kind of a bother, so I'll lay on 
my bed, laying on my stomach, with my boots hanging off the end.  Of 
course, if I really sat down and thought about it, I'd never wear my 
work boots in the station because really ... ick.

I was born and raised in New Zealand and moved to the states when my 
mum married a sailor ... she picked him up in a bar when his ship was 
in port :)  (20 years later they are still together :) )  Anyway, 
these days I live in Florida and no one is really FROM Florida ... 
well, there are a few, but not very many.  So often in conversation 
people will ask where each other are from.  My usual reply 
is: "Orginally or most recently?"  Of course, they ask for both and 
when I say I'm orginally from New Zealand the response I get is ... 
come on, you know what it is!  "Oh, that's in Australia right?"   
AHHHHHHH ... no, we really are our own country.  And then the 
inevitable question, what do you guys speak down there?   

My friend Sarah is a bit geographically challenged.  Until she was 
about 18, she thought North was Up.  Ask her to point North, she'll 
point to the sky.  ANyway, she went to Europe as part of a choral 
group and they went all of the place and had a really good time.  
Well, she was relating this story to someone once she returned to the 
states and told them all the places they went and how they went from 
paris to Switzerland by way of ... you know that country that starts 
with an "A" ... oh yeah, Argentina.  I suppose it is more amusing to 
know that the other person didn't catch anything wrong .....

Michelle :) <---who knows quite a bit about geography, but can't find 
her car keys .... hmmmmmm