the world

I used to think all Chinese people were kung fu experts. Must have been from watching so many martial arts movies with my dad.

i didnt know why Tony Hawk's nickname was birdman until I was 16 years ols

When i was about 5 years old my parents would say not to drop the flag or well have to burn it soo until i was like nine i used to beleive that if a flag touched the ground it would simeltaniously combust

i used to believe that spain was on a different planet

I used to believe the world map was only one half of the planet. One day i said to my brother "when i grow up, im gonna discover the other half! ^_^'

I used to think that the third world was a different planet. I imagined what it would be like to travel between the earth and the third world. I could never figure out where the second world was.

For some strange reason I alays thought Quebec was in Saudi Arabia !!! (I guess I must have mixed it up with Quatar) and I genuinely beliieved this until one day in a French lesson when we were watching a video based in Canada all about food. When they went to Quebec I asked why they were speaing French because they speak Arabic in Quebec ! Everyone looked at me like I was insane and I have never lived it down to this day !!

I believed that if you wanted to buy something, but didn't have enough money, the kind shopkeeper would give you enough "change" so that you could afford it. It is a shame that I only ever tested this theory when buying lollies, instead of trying it out to buy a porsche!

I thought the Government was a high-ranking politician who shared duties with the President (I'm American). The president mostly gave speeches, and the Government did the work.

I used to believe the large metal structure in Paris, France, I thought it was the "Eye Full Tower"

I'm from Norway and when I was 16, I went to the USA for a year. On my first day of highschool, I had to introduce myself and told people that I was from Norway and someone actually asked me if we had ELECRICITY in Norway!

When I was 5 years old, the church gave everybody in the neighbourhood those little donation bags that said 'bread for the world' on them. The girl who distributed those bags told me that they were collecting for poor kids who had no money to buy bread. So it seemed only natural to me to snag a few slices of bread from my kitchen. I asked my cousin to do the same, then we'd go to the church together and gave the priest our bags that contained real bread! He had a good laugh before he explained that you were actually supposed to put money in those. And because I thought the money was going to kids, I figured they would only need play money, so I emptied the cashier of my doll supermarket, filled the back and took it back to the church. Little did I understand why the priest was still laughing at me!

I never knew that people actually lived in Las Vegas. I always thought everybody would just go there on vacation, LOL!
Now I'm married to a Las Vegas native and we contemplate moving there.

One day when I was very young my grandpa was going to the bank. He showed me his check, and explained it to me. I told him I wanted some money too. I got out my red crayon, and some paper. I tried my best to copy his check. I even put a line under my name. I gave it to my grandpa, and asked him to take it to the bank for me. He said it wouldn't work. He said it was a hot check. I thought about it for a while. Then I took out some more paper and my blue crayon. I copied the check again, and handed it to him. I told him it wasn't hot anymore it was cold because I used blue! It took him quite awhile to explain it to me.

For a long time I puzzled over why Michigan City, Indiana is so named, being in Indiana and not Michigan. Then one day, looking at a map, I felt kind of stupid, noticing the obvious answer, namely that it is on the shore of Lake Michigan. Soon afterwards I began to discover that there are other cities named for the great lake on whose shore they are located, like Erie, Pennsylvania and Superior, Wisconsin. Then one day, I was perplexed, discovering Huron, South Dakota on a map, quite far from Lake Huron. I asked my sister why it was named that, so far from the great lake by the same name. My sister told me that Lake Huron was once much bigger than it is now and that back then it extended all the way to Huron, South Dakota. As far fetched as that seemed, I believed it for a long time. The day I fanally began to doubt such an explanation was the day I discovered Ontario, California on a map.

i used to belive that spain was on a different planet