About This & That

You guys are probably going to eat me up for this but how many continents are there???

For me, there's always been FIVE.

And then last night I'm having dinner with a few friends (wives from Peru and husbands from U.S.) and we got into this big discussion about differences and things we find weird in this country.

Husbands said 7 continents and wives said 5. We made a pretty big deal out of it. And then I'm googling it now and apparently, for most English speakers, there are 7 continents: South America, North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and Antartica. For half-Asia, South America and Africa (I think, what do you think Nic?) there are 5- maybe 6 if you count Antarctica, but 'for us' it's not considered a continent yet: America (as a whole one), Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania (which includes NZ and Australia).

Why doesn't the world make up its mind and teach us all ONE SAME THING?

Same thing about the cousins and uncles. My mom's cousin -for me - would be my uncle, because it's a different generation and his kids would be my cousins. For J -and most of you guys - they're all cousins or second cousins or whatever. In the end, we're all just cousins. So confusing.

AND Same thing about the cat's lives. For me, cats have seven lives (referring to the saying... you know what i mean) but for J, they have nine.

I feel so left out!