the world

When I was little, I used to believe that money was the same everywhere. I used to think the small change I'd find around the house in $1 and $5 could buy expensive things I saw in US catalogues (I'm Jamaican).

When I was six, I under the impression Egypt was a fictional place. Boy was I surprised when I was playing with a globe and found out that Egypt was real country.

I would visit Ohio a lot to see my aunt, so I believed that everywhere I went outside of my town was Ohio.

Once when I was vacationing with my parents in England, they suggested we go to see Greenwich Mean Time. I protested tremendously because I didn't want to go to a place where people were mean to each other. Instead I requested we go to Greenwich Nice Time. Naturally, we stayed entirely away from Greenwich.

As I began getting an allowance, I realized that a lot of kids my age didn't get allowance or didn't get as much as I did (I got about $3).

So one day I went to the toy store, picked out the toy I wanted and put twenty dollars on the counter (I'd been saving up). After seeing that I was hardly tall enough to reach the counter, the clerk laughed and complimented my stick-to-it-tiveness (as in he was happy that I child my age was mature enough to think about saving money).

I bought the toy and thought about what he had said. I deducted that I was rich because I was sticky. This arroused a mixed reaction in my mind and I decided to take baths more often, but to make sure my hands were sticky so I could hold onto my money.

I used to believe…

umtil i was 14 and in the 9th grade i thought Russia and Germany were the same country!!!!!

I used to believe rednecks were people from oregon>>>>

I used to think Canberra was in Queensland, somewhere near where Mt Isa is. I don't know why I thought this, to this day I can't for the life of me remember what made me think this, I grew up in Hobart (enough said, lol)...it wasn't until I was back to Sydney in Year 7 that I found out where Canberra really is.

When I was four or so, I used to believe that you could use Monopoly Money to buy things. I remember "helping" my grandma pay for her items at the store with the money, and the cashier actually accepting it!

i used to believe that the other half of the world was an exact mirror image of this half, and that everyone had someone else that looked exactly like them on the other side. I always thought it was a race with your own look-a-like to finish whatever it is you do in life first. If i was reading a book, i would always wonder if my look-a-like on the other side of the world was up to the same page I was. I would imagine i was always winning with her having to run to catch up. I called it the Game of Life and even wrote stories about it.

When I was about 7 years old I heard the news mention New Mexico. I thought for a long time that it was a "new" part of Mexico that had just been established.

when I was younger and used to watched football with my dad, I used to think that the football players had no faces through the helmets.

I thought that New York and Florida were neighbors. I think it was from hearing about my N.Y relations constantly going there on vacation!

When I was very young, I thought that when someone mentioned piggy banks that they ment keeping money in real pigs. I thought, "No way I'll keep my money in some pig!" I decided the safest place was myself, and one day I stuffed my cheeks with all the pennies I could find. My mother soon enlightened me after finding me with a mouthful of pennies.

When I was a child my dad was a truck driver, he often had loads going to miami and I wold ask him where he was going and when he told me miami, I didnt' know it was a city, I thought he was going to his ami, wasnt' sure what a ami was but i always thought one day I hope I get to go to MY-AMI.

I used to think that France was in England and i wondered why we had to go by boat!