User blog comment:NefkaAlice/Has anyone actually read a history book for fun thanks to Hetalia?/@comment-66.74.167.235-20101003204003


 * SeyMichelles*

Hmm now that you bring this up, I do in fact remember reading the last few chapters of my history book last year because I wanted to. It was my US History book that was more focused on the beginnings to Reconstruction and a bit after that, so the World Wars and on were like two epilogue chapters that my class never got to since we had to do review of the last two years of history since they would be included on our state test. However, I read those chapters long before I knew we weren't going to be reading the whole book >3< I forget if it was because of Hetalia or I just really was interested in what was in the book then. I was also obsessed with Ancient Egyptian history around 3rd and 4th grade when it had nothing to do with what I was learning in school those years lol. One more point I remember that would say I liked history before Hetalia at least slightly was in 7th grade medival history in my core class when a lot of my classmates complained about having it and how boring it was, I LOVED IT so much, our core teacher was amazing. They loved her when we had Reading and Language Arts but me, meh I'm not much of a writer and more of a facts person (sorta why history and math {and science a bit} were my favorite subjects) I remember thinking that in history a few months before I discovered Hetalia. About just a month before I found out what Hetalia was I first saw the words "Holy Roman Empire" on a map of Europe I had to color and label (hurrhurr the map was really Italian centric, I think it was the Renniasance chapter) and learned about Fredrick the Great (and Prussia) in the Enlightenment chapter near the end of the book. All those really did not mean much to me until I saw them in Hetalia, so I guess Hetalia has made me love history even more (and pay closer attention to detail when looking on a map ;) )