When I was around 6 or 7 years old, I used to believe that if I dug straight down through the earth in my sandbox that I would reach China. Well I eventually learned that, that is not true :)
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When I was in kindergarten, I was convinced I could dig my way out of a sandbox and off to China.Anon
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL
- I used to think China and Japan where the same.— Lunarmoon
- when i was young i used to think japan and china were the same country— i like star wars
- I used to think that Hadrian also built the Great Wall of China.— Spacey