Saving the World.....One Globe at a Time!

On the last day of school

a teacher friend came to my room

and told me there were two globes

in the "pit". ....

Which is where items go to be saved....

before they are thrown away.

I sent my fleetest-footest (new term!) student

to the pit

with the instructions to

come back with BOTH globes...

before someone else saw

the awesomeness in them

and absconded them away!

No kidding, aren't these just wonderful?

Both of them still read

Union of Soviet Socialist Republic!

Of course that is not the only country

with a new name!

And, by the way, if you look at the

first picture carefully,

you will see how

this globe lights up.

Be. Still. My. Heart!

Then still reveling in all my globe-gloating-glory,

I walked by the library.

The librarian had spent the last several

weeks of school packing up the library,

as we are beginning next school year with a

new library.

I noticed that there was

a lonely globe sitting by itself

on the empty shelves.

I went in and asked her about the globe

and she said I was welcome to it,

as it was not making the trip

to the new library.

Oh. My. Global Goodness.

Three new superterrificwonderfulcoolandgroovylicious globes

in

one

day!

While the first one

lights up,

the second one is a

Land and Sea globe.

If you look carefully,

you can see the

topography of the land.

Oh my the goodness!

Then there is Mr. Number 3.

Oh my word, he is a big boy.

I sat him by a 32 inch TV

so you could see his

mammothness.

And if that were not enough to

endear his largeness

to my heart....

look at this.

He sits on a galvanized base.

....with numbers and letters!

He comes off and can be

repositioned

so easily.

And look how pretty his face is.

He has all American cities...

and worldly cities....

highlighted

with a red dot.

He is SO cool!

So not only did I celebrate

because it was the last day of school..

I walked out a very happy camper

with three

outdated

but beautiful

globes.

They all three sit proudly now

in my new office at home...

while I continue to

save the world

...one ...(or three) globe(s) at a time!

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