Geography class. Remember the routine for the "region of the week"? Monday: read the chapters. Tuesday and Wednesday: endure the lectures. Thursday: stare at the badly mimeographed maps. If you were able to rattle off the rivers, mountain ranges, and top five cash crops on Friday's test, you had it made. Five milliseconds after handing in your paper, you could forget everything you had learned.

Geography, however, is too important to be forgotten. After all, for many of us, geography is our first (and last) experience with places and cultures different from our own. How then can we make learning geography interesting, entertaining experience?