the world

One day when I was about 8 we drove past a cricket field. When I asked my mum what the white screens were for she told me that they contained hidden cameras for spying on the crowd - yeah, nice one mum. I'm 30 now, but I still check my behaviour near those screens.

I remember being in the first grade and hearing the phrase "Red China." I translated this as to mean that everything in China was red, the sky, the grass, the people. I felt bad for the kids there because they didn't get to see the pretty colors I got to see. It wasn't until I was in college that I found out what "Red China" really was.

I was about 6 years old at the time the Berlin wall fell and Germany became reunited. We used to get those Weekly Reader newsletters in school, and the story about Germany being unified was accompanied by a story about a kid who found out that his hometown wasn't on a map and had it changed. For some reason, I thought these two things were the same story, and for at least three years I thought that Germany had been divided into East and West because someone had made a mistake on a map.

my parents are avid football fans. i used to watch the game and i believed that i the point of the game was to chase after the person with the ball and rub his face into the ground.

I used to think that each house was a different state.

My best friend was called Tory, short for Victoria (although I never figured out her real name until after I moved away). When my mum told me about the 'Tory party' I first thought that it was her birthday party that I wasn't invited to. When she explained what the 'Tory party' really was I thought that my friend was really secretly their leader. Thankfully, I figured out that I was wrong before I told anyone.

I used to think that Toronto was in Pennsylvania. I was 13 and about to go into 8th grade when I found out it was in Canada.

When I was about five or so, I saw a beer commercial on tv. It was two guys having a beer, watching a football game. and at the end the announcer said " The American Beer". Well see I'm Canadian, and I thought that an American was what you called someone who drinks beer and watches football today. I believed that for a couple of years, till i finally asked my parents.

I used to belive that the american flag was the california flag! i was in the 5th grade when i realized it wasent!

When I was a child, my dad used to get in the car and go off on his own on some Sundays -- his only day off. I always wanted to go, and when I asked him where he was going, being from Arkansas, he would say, "Off a piece". Until I was in sixth grade I thought there was a town in the San Joaquin Valley called Ofapece.

when i was younger i used to believe that since there was the countries hungary and turkey that there was one called spoon, and i found it on the globe once and i always wondered why i could never find it again

When I was younger I thought that if I dug a hole that I'd fall through the Earth and into outer space.

My uncle is a big fan of basball, and when I was about 5 or 6 we watched a video of him playing baseball when he was in high-school. When he hit a "home-run" my little 6 year old brain thought everyone was yelling, "hard on". Somehow no one ever knew I thought this or just never corrected me, so boy did I surprise my first baseball coach when I told him I could hit hard ons every time I played!!

I used to believe…

you know the ten-foot line that they have for volleyball courts? I used to think that when you were playing basketball, if you shot from that line your team would score "ten" points. I actually tried to make a shot all the way from there in the last second of one of my basketball games. My angry teamates hastily corrected me.

You'll probably only get this if you're from the UK, but I used to think the Wombles lived at Wembley Stadium.

I used to think that Hadrian also built the Great Wall of China.