During my first years at school we had an outline map of the world on our classroom wall. I often wondered why someone had written the word 'and' in the bottom right corner near Australia. Years later I realised that this was New Zealand.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe New Zealand and Australia were part of the UK because they have a UK flag on their flags — H
- i used to think the whole world was new zealand— Matt
- I used to think the line in Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall was "No dogs allowed in the classroom."— Gretchen
- i used to think that Australia was the whole world.— Trish
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren