I,,, actually wasn't taught this? I taught myself to remember which way was West and which was East by recalling how my history books always called Japan the "Empire of the Rising Sun" (and I knew it was in the East) so boom. And then, I live on the West Coast, so that's also easy. Then I just have to remember North and South in relation to those *finger guns*
But yeah, I really don't remember any mnemonic phrase ever even being suggested to me.
