Those Geography lessons

We all have our share of funny and embarrassing moments in our lives. I remember few in particular which were funny as well as embarrassing and are worth sharing and there are some which I would like to bury deep with in me, I might be able to get over them in another thirty or forty years, and no way, I am never telling them to anyone.
The one problem I have always had is studying geography back in school. Well, looking back I feel its not only geography but damn chemistry too that used to get on my nerves; I could never balance the equation and nor could remember the chemical formulas. Physics was worst I better not talk about it. I could never understand what the hell Newton (with all due respect) discovered and why there are so many laws and mathematical problems based on that. And yeah mathematics, I barely managed to pass in that subject in my high school and swore to myself that never in my life I am studying math again. Well, lets get back to the topic now. All the subjects were boring and difficult but I used to hate geography the most. I still have problems (my directions are so poor). Anyway I am drifting away; I should stick to the topic (now that you all know about my academic performance).
Back in school (6th Grade) in our geography class we were playing boys’ v/s gals Antakshari, the only difference was instead of songs we had to take name of a city and explain a bit about it. We girls had to think of something starting with ‘W’ in 10 seconds and very proudly I said Washington and also managed few tit-bits like it was the Capital city of America and the President of the country lives there in White house, all of a sudden I hear the guys replying Cairo and with all the energy I could muster I started yelling on top of my voice, “you have to say something beginning with N and not C”. Some gave me puzzling looks, some confused and some agreed with me. Then suddenly the most intelligent guy in my class who always came first said in a small voice, “Its ok, we all know your geography is a little weak. It’s Washington D.C”. Bloody Hell.
Once my fiancée and I were discussing the places to visit around the world and god knows how we landed up discussing Iceland. And suddenly he asked do you know where exactly it is located. Those were still early days for us and I was cursing my bravery to discuss something about which I had no clue of, half wishing that the conversation should have taken place over the phone atleast I could quickly turn to my faithful Google for my rescue. “Ummm, actually I am not sure”, I managed. Damn, is it a country or just a name of the place? How could I be so stupid? First thing I am doing today is learning all the names of the countries, their location and with some luck their capital’s too. “Not sure about what”?
“I am not sure about its location”.
“OK, atleast try in which continent it is located, well forget that tell me how many continents are there”. What the hell. I couldn’t understand his fascination with the location and continents and why were we having that conversation in the first place, it was time to be honest with him, wait I did know how many continents are there and I could name them all in my mind. Those mugging up sessions back in school came in handy. So I named them all and with a sheepish grin I managed may be it is located in North America or Australia, I don’t remember, but he was laughing his head off and I planned an immediate revenge. Never mind. He explained to me all about Scandinavian Countries thereafter. Now, I take a lot of interest in geography and keep updating myself every now and then.