places

I thought you could get banned from checking out books in a library if you accidently rip a page. Whenever I'd rip a page accidently, I would be scared when we had to return them, thinking I will never be allowed to check a book out again. Luckily that didn't happen!

Freddy

I believed that they had polar bears in poland until I went there and asked "Wher's the polar bears?"

Mike

I used to believe that in United States all the buildings will fall because when I was child I saw the terrific 9/11 in the TV and I had a trauma.

Adrián

Me and my best friend used to think Warsaw was pronounced "War-sah" until one of our polish friends told us how it was really pronounced

Emily

When my mom told me people from poland were called poles, i thought they were literal poles.

Brianna

I thought Deutschland and the Netherlands were the same place.

Emily

I thought that wars and battles were the same thing, and that conflict between countries were all just settled with one big fight.

Mark

I used to think public was a section of Boston

Anon

I remember sitting in the car, looking out the window, thinking that the world was just a big old doll house and we were the dolls.

Anon

I used to believe that the world is a wonderful place full of great people, a world where good people are rewarded for being honest and gentle, a world where I could be happy.

Kamil

I used to think that countries were states and states were countries.

Rachel

when i was 2 or 3, my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins were always talking about going to Miami. I thought they said "My Ami" so i always wondered why I didn't have my own "ami" to go to.

amy

I thought Turkey was ruled by a turkey chancellor. To me, Turkey was a peaceful country with a lot of shepherds, and all of their sheep were from France. I had one snafuous understanding of the world when I was little

Romania

I used to think Romania and Transylvania were one and the same. All of Romania was apparently Transylvania, and they had a booming movie industry. I thought it was the same country that went by two different names.

Ironically, friends who don't know this call me Romania

When I was about 5, my father told me that while it was night time in Spain (where we're from), it was daytime in Japan, and vice versa. I thought that was impossible!

Nina

I used to think that gunpoint was a place as well. I also used to think that the Everglades was a place that smelled really good because it had the word "Glade" in it

Anon