I am on the east coast. My mommade fun of me the other day because I was telling her all these earth science facts that I knew by heart because I took my state test in June, and I'm rambling, but anyway she asked me why the temperatures were lower in New Zealand during this time of year , when we had high temps, and that confused the heck out of me until it hit me that the earth is tilted and reversed seasons and everything, so the stuff I worked my butt to remember in September leaked out of my ears by July. And my teachers tell me that the stuff we learn in school, we remember for life.