I've mentioned several times how I am directionally challenged. Actually, the one time I usually know right and left is when I'm in a yoga class and the teacher calls it the "brick wall" side or the "front door" side. Or something like that. I was recently in a yoga class where the teacher got the sides confused and let me tell you - I was very messed up. I did a body stutter or something like that.
I also know right and left when I am driving. Because right turns are the easiest turns. And left are not.
But tell me which side of my face has sauce on it and I am one confused girl.
Caleb thinks this is very strange. To him, left and right are as standard as up and down. To me THIS IS NOT THE SAME. Right and left have no gravitational impact. I can not stand with my feet "up" and my head "down".
I've been trying to help the kids I tutor to understand right and left. To make sure I don't make mistakes, we practice in the car. "WHICH WAY ARE WE TURNING?" I cry out with glee. I am pretty sure they are just guessing half the time, but it's okay. You can get through life without knowing right or left. I am proof.
Now I am curious... are you directionally challenged? Did you cheat in school when your teachers tried to teach right and left? (Sorry Mrs. Jamison!) I always closed one hand in a fist so I'd know which way was right or left when we had to turn away from the right and left signs. If you cheated, I want to know how! Or maybe you were never directionally challenged. How is this possible? Were you just born knowing right and left?
Until next time!
I also know right and left when I am driving. Because right turns are the easiest turns. And left are not.
But tell me which side of my face has sauce on it and I am one confused girl.
Caleb thinks this is very strange. To him, left and right are as standard as up and down. To me THIS IS NOT THE SAME. Right and left have no gravitational impact. I can not stand with my feet "up" and my head "down".
I've been trying to help the kids I tutor to understand right and left. To make sure I don't make mistakes, we practice in the car. "WHICH WAY ARE WE TURNING?" I cry out with glee. I am pretty sure they are just guessing half the time, but it's okay. You can get through life without knowing right or left. I am proof.
Now I am curious... are you directionally challenged? Did you cheat in school when your teachers tried to teach right and left? (Sorry Mrs. Jamison!) I always closed one hand in a fist so I'd know which way was right or left when we had to turn away from the right and left signs. If you cheated, I want to know how! Or maybe you were never directionally challenged. How is this possible? Were you just born knowing right and left?
Until next time!
First of all, you are too cute. Second, if you make your thumbs and index fingers into L's, your Left hand will look like an L to you. That trick always helped me! :)
ReplyDeleteOddly, I get these confused a lot. I tried the thumb-L trick but I tend to turn my hands around and still get confused.
ReplyDeleteThis right-left confusedness was so prominent in high school that after a week long trip somewhere I came back and found that my dad had labeled everything in my car "right" and "left".
I'm with Caleb on this. And although I've since lost this instinct a bit, when I was doing theatre in college, I never got confused between my right and my left and stage right and stage left either.
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