Hey geograpeeps! Welcome back to Flag/Fan Friday!
I hope you liked the Guinea-Bissau episode.
Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Information got married!
It was a fun episode and I'm kind of surprised that it actually got a lot more views than I thought it would get
I guess you guys were really curious to learn about it.
So thank you for being curious!
So we're going to jump to the flag but before we do I'm going to do the Fan Friday package opening part
in my living room. You'll see why in a bit.
So without further ado!
♪ FLAG FRIDAY INTRODUCTION MUSIC ♪
By the way I forgot to mention that Geography Now has a SnapChat so if you'd like to follow,
feel free to look me up at @GeoNowBarby.
Alright I know you guys just wanted to jump in so let's just do it!
The flag is a tricolour of one upright rectangular band of red on the hoist
followed by two adjacent yellow and green horizontal bands to the right of it.
The flag was adopted from the African Flag Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde,
which looked exactly the same except the letters of the Portuguese acronym were on the left hoist box under
the black star.
Once again the flag was inspired off PAN Africanist Movement colours and also specifically after the flag
of Ghana.
The black star of Africa represents the people of Africa,
the green stands for the forests, the yellow stands for the mineral wealth
and the red stands for...
THE CASHEW FRUIT!
Cashews actually have a red tincher when the come off the trees.
HAHAHA YOU FELL FOR IT! THE RED STANDS FOR
♪ Blood of those who fight for the freedom ♪
Once again thank you Ken for that animation. By the way, follow him on Instagram if you want.
That's like his only social media platform
Keep in mind, this format was also used for the flag of Cape Verde as they were kind of joined
with Guinea-Bissau at one point.
"Kind of" during independence.
The only difference is: they used a reef around the star.
Now, Guinea-Bissau doesn't have a coat of arms but rather they have an emblem.
The image contains, once again, a black star of Africa on a red circle surrounded by all of branches
sprouting from a seashell.
The seashell symbolises the location of the country and the west coast of Africa.
All adorned with a banner that reads: "Unidade", "Luta" and "Progresso",
which means: "Unity", "Struggle" and "Progress".
And that's about it! Now you know what time it is!
GEOGRA-FANMAIL TIME!
So the reason why I can't film in my room is because...
This is like the most I've ever gotten. You gu... This is all from last week.
So I'm going to try and open as many as I can right now.
However, I got to make it quick. I can't make this video go on for like twenty minutes.
Alright this box is from Lerah from Israel
* OPENS A SWITCHBLADE *
Wow!
Hello Paul, I'm Lerah from Safed in Israel.
He sent me a hat of his squadron.
Of course!
An Israeli flag.
Ah, these really cool cups that are specifically delined for coffee
and he sent me turkish coffee.
Thank you so much Lerah. I really appreciate this!
Buck from North Carolina.
Ooh!
There's also a suction cup flag of Kosovo!
Serbians! I know... Just... Calm down!
And there is also a thirteen colonies flag.
Woah!
This is so cool!
Oh, this is like the first flag that the US had: The 13 Colonies!
Thank you so much! This is really cool!
Ok, this is pretty crazy! Two geograpeeps sent letters with, uhh... Banknotes from Honduras.
Mika sent a five Lempira
and Vilma sent a twenty Lempira
Oh, and Vilma sends a little Honduras keychain fish.
Bren Manuel from the Philippines
He drew like all the individual islands of the Philippines! Bren you sent me a whole school report!
*LAUGHS* This is... *LAUGHS*
You must love your country and I... I appreciate that. I appreciate gaining enthusiasm you have
for the Philippines!
Uhh, Sid from Massachusetts. Thank you for sending this letter and uhh... He made up a really cool language
on his own.
Ok, this is a little bit of a serious one.
First of all, Chris, thank you for the letter. I read it! However, at the end he says: "I've included a picture
of our dear friend Anthony, if you can would you be able to do a shoutout to our friend. We haven't seen him
in a long time and want him to know that we still love him and miss him dearly."
So, this is a picture of Anthony and Anthony if you're watching uhh... Please contact Chris!
Uhh, him and his family misses you so uhmm... I'm going to post this on social media too.
I don't know if he's missing! I don't know what's up with that, but uhmm... Thank you for letting me know.
Uhmm, I really hope you find him Chris!
John, your letter made me laugh, you said: "Inside I've included a badly drawn Slovak flag." *LAUGHS*
Shearly from Singapore!
Oh wow!
Really cool pictures of Singapore and uhh... these are really awesome keychains that have like landmark!
Thank you so much, Shearly!
And uhh, Julie! I got your card! Julie actually went to the garage sail that I had like last year before I moved
my family out to L.A.
Julie, I really appreciate this!
Ben from Massachusetts.
Oh, Organic Syrup!
*LAUGHS* He also made some drawings.
This is from Lucas from Cyprus.
Ooh, Cyprus! I never got something from Cyprus so far!
Ooh, it's Lemon Delights!
So, Lucas, you know about my diet! I can't eat it because Luca's watching me.
However, I'm going to save this and five weeks from now I'm going to be off that diet and I can
probably eat these!
Thank you Lucas!
Ooh, all that dust got on me.
Three cool post cards! Gerrit from Seattle. Lindsie from New York who says: "It'll mean the world to me
if you put this on Fan/Flag Friday."
It's on!
And uhh... This one from Pennsylvania. However, the person didn't write their name.
Thank you!
Ok, this is a really cool letter from Nathan from Florida.
He drew a little comic that is me and him. And on the other side, he drew all the levels of P.O.O.P.C.A.R.E. Index.
Level 1: "Full Domain"!
Level 2: "Tagalongs"!
Level 3: "Organised outskirts"!
Level 4: "Cattle call"!
Level 5: "Asian Invasion"!
This is really cool! Thanks Nathan!
This is from Aneek from Hong Kong!
Ahh that's cool!
Ahhh, you made a little teaser for the Greenland Geography Go! episode.
Ahh, Summer 2017. Thanks for doing that, Aneek!
Oh yeah and thanks for the really cool Hong Kong postcard.
Zoltan from Serbia.
I love your videos and can't wait for the Serbia episode.
I sent you a little bribe to hurry it up. It's a 100 Dinar bill
with the greatest man in the whole world, Nikola Tesla.
PS; It's worth less than $1
Ryan from Tennessee, drew a picture of me
However uh Ryan, I don't exactly have blue eyes but that's okay. That's okay. I appreciate it!
Fabian from Germany.
A lot of tape.
MOOOREE SNACKS!!! URRRGH!!
Dark choclate! I love this stuff!
Okay Fabian, and thank you. I'm going to save this for another five weeks.
A Westphalia flag from Germany
Man you, Fabian, you look like you had a lot of fun. Thank you, Fabian!
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