When I was little I heard on lots of T.V. shows that parents went backpacking through Europe before college. So I thought that Europe was this barren land with no countries or anything. Just mountains and forests and people hiked for thousands of miles. I always wondered why someone would want to do that. Now I wonder where I used to think all those European countries were...
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think that Hawaii and Alaska were different countries. I wondered were the other 2 states where!— x-nicola-x
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- I thought the only countries that drove on the left was UK and Hong Kong— Anonymous
- I used to believe that clouds were foreign countries.— Ade