When my sixth grade class finally finished memorizing all the countries in the world, I raised my hand to ask where I could find "Orientar." My teacher was confused, until I sang the song... "We three kings from Orientar, bearing gifts we've traveled so far!" I really thought it was a place.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think that Orientar was a place, as in "We three kings from Orientar"— Katie
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- My teacher held out a hand to say, "stop" but I thought she wanted a high-five.Anon
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- I thought the big hand was for the hour and the smaller one was for the minutes until i was in third grade.— Time Challenged