In Hong Kong there's a Catholic secondary school called Mary Knoll College which has lovely red-brick neo-classical buildings, and to my young eyes that style of architecture exemplify the American landscape that I sometimes saw on travel programmes on TV.
So when one day my family drove by that college in a car and I saw those majestic red brick buildings whizzing by (there was also a white steepled church as well) I couldn't believe it and asked out loud, 'Have we driven to America already?'
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I thought the only countries that drove on the left was UK and Hong Kong— Anonymous
- I used to believe that you got married right after you finished high school or college. Anon
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- When I was little, I always believed I was safe from the big bad wolf because I lived in a brick house.— Beth
- The very first time I saw a globe (of Earth, yes) I asked where "College" was located.— Shade
- Pink Floyd- Brick Wall.
I used to believe it was "we don't need no fart control" in the second line there.— Norwegian Dude From Kopervik