A New View of "Down Under"!
I had been wanting a world map for my wall, for ages, and a few months ago, I was in a local bookstore in Ballarat, and found a map that made me chuckle. An upside down view of the world! How strange it looked! The whole idea, was that Australia was sitting on top of the world, and was not located "down under" at all. The shapes of countries looked odd, and out of place. For instance, Italy looked like a lower case "r" rather than a boot. As well, a majority of my fellow Canadians were, in this case, living on the top section of our country not near the bottom! Hmmm... Interesting! And so, my world view changed when I took a second to think about it. My whole life I had been taught that there was a northern, southern, western, and eastern hemisphere... that places such as Canada and Russia, and let's face it most of the world were all located in the Northern hemisphere, while places such as Australia, Antarctica, and "South" America, were consid
