When I was about 7 years old, in 1963, my grade school teacher asked 'Can anyone point out Germany on the map?' I confidently walked to the front and pointed to Cuba. I'll always remember the consternation this caused the teacher. Why was I so sure Cuba was Germany? It could only be that Second War films and TV coverage of the Cuban missile crisis had somehow become intermingled in my mind!
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- That germs came from Germany.— Alicia
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- I used to believe Germany was in Asia somewhere near Russia.— It's in Europe!
- My friend was in Germany, and she thougth that "ausfart" was a city.— Tone
- I used do believe beer was only produced in Germany and then exported to all other contries.— Stefan, Munich