Once in July 2007 I was sitting in my room gazing at a laminated sheet of paper which had pictures of every international flag on it. I don't know when or where it came from especially because it had Yogslavia and didn't have East Timor and most Oceanian flags. So anyways I was in my room and suddenly I thought "In case this paper gets lost I'll draw all the flags that are on it". I started drawing Andorra (for some reason the paper thing skipped Afghanistan, Albania, and Algeria) and was satisfied. Then to my horror I saw that the next one (Angola) had tons of black and I didn't have a black crayon. I used a pencil and to this day it looks kind of odd. At the end of the day I had it up to Azerbaijan (#8 for the day). I kept going and to celebrate Cinco de Mayo (2008) I did Mexico even though I was only on Kenya and went in alphabetical order. A few odd things were 1. I did Antarctica and Greenland, 2. I did north and south Korea as Korea (north) and Korea (south), 3. I spelled Israel like I-s-r-a-l instead of I-s-r-a-e-l (I fixed that), and last of all 4. I did Nepal like I cut a piece of paper into the right size and then did it.
Remember I said the paper thingy skipped a few countries? Well I did them like we got this world map with all the world flags at the bottom. I then did them and scooted all the other flags over and put them in (Then I was on Tonga so that was a nightmare). Here is a list of all the flags I had to make late;
East Timor,
Kiribati,
Kosovo,
Montenegro,
Naru,
Serbia,
Taiwan,
Tuvalu,
Vanuatu
(I already did the 3 "A"s)
P.S. Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia are breakups of Yogslavia and the following: Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Naru, and Kiribati are in Oceania
P.P.S. This project took me 2 2/3 years, 3 sets of crayons and 3 pencils, 2 binders, 99 clear protector sheets and 198 sheets of paper.
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WOW James! That is quite the accomplishment! You could scan each picture and keep a digital copy! I remember you were Phillip's age when you started to be intrigued with flags.
ReplyDeleteThe good news is, if you lose this one you still have the one you made when you are 4. I saved it for you but it is dfferent because it is made of construction paper and laminated and you didn't have very good handwriting back then
ReplyDeleteGood work on a completed project!
Great job, James! I love your flag artwork!
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