By second grade I had learned about the chosen people, the Jews of biblical times. I had never heard the term in a contemporary context so when a little girl my age, a neighbor of my grandmother, told me she was a Jew, I remember being absolutely amazed and delighted. I had assumed they no longer existed, as if in another era they had mysteriously become extinct like dinosaurs.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- Up until the 5th grade, I thought that all Egyptians were extinct. — Amy x
- I thought Jews were people who came from Jupiter.Anon
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- "dildo is an extinct bird"
my 18 year old friend fell for that.— pebblezzz - I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff