Flags

A black tarp. Several rectangular wooden tiles. Paintbrushes. A ruler. Several cans of poorly chosen paint colours - black, white, red, and pastel blue, yellow, and green. Ten to twenty students putting off studying for finals.

We painted flags.


We didn't have the ideal colours, and our attempts at mixing failed horribly and produced only a useless pink and several variations of equally useless grey. We only had enough tiles for about 30 flags - far less than we needed to even give a reasonably share to each corner of the world. Instead, it was anarchy. People made what they wanted. This meant Taiwan, and no China, a very beautiful Serbia, Russia, Seychelles, and Isle of Man, no U.K., no Germany, an very detailed Nicaragua and Mexico, no Brazil or Canada, a few attempts at the U.S. and Texan flags, only one of which was allowed to remain, a Finnish flag, a Norwegian flag, even a Sami flag (can you tell I was involved?), Japan, Angola, Georgia, South Ossetia, and a Pangaea flag showing the 'old' globe. Some of them turned out quite nice:



Actually I think they all did. :) Next year Pangaea is moving, and they're tearing down all the flags we have scattered around the floor. Most of them are outdated, damaged, or bad anyway... but it's still a bit sad. And the worst crime is that they're tearing down our very impressive map of the world... which must have been done in years past with a projector or something, it's so detailed and lovely. I think it would be just fine in World of Business... it's only one wall, after all, and they never decorate theirs, but they'll hear none of it. Still, at least we can pass these flags on to the next generation. And we signed and dated and labled all the backs. :D