My mom is from Finland, and as a kid I thought it was so cool that I used to talk about it all the time to my teachers. My first grade teacher finally asked me to do a presentation on Finland, complete with drawings of reindeers and Lapp people, and everybody in my class thought that I was making it up - that there was no such place as Finland! I made my mom come in and speak Finnish to everybody, but they thought she was just jibbering and "goo-goo-gah-gahed" at me for the remainder of the school year!
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Finland was in the end of the world. Fin-land.— Francesco Delvecchio, Roma/Italia
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I thought all the teachers slept at school.— Ryan