the world: places

I had a friend who thought everywhere outside London was outside England. We lived in London and had a holiday cottage in Derbyshire, and whenever my friend stayed with us there she thought she was in a foreign country.

I, up until a few dayse ago, (i'm 12) though 'Secaucus" was a city! I't astualy a primary vote!

i used to think that when u went somewhere in a plane, the place was above u because the plane went up to get there. so i thought all my cousins in california lived above us just out of my vision and i would always look up and wave at them. then i learned that the earth is round. i also wondered how u would get to places that were on a level below u.

I used to believe all countries besides the USA were 3rd world countries. When I was 10 years old I'd talk to people from Britain and Canada online and wonder how they had access to the internet.

I used to believe that clouds were other continets seen fron down side. So people actually lived in the upper side of the clouds.

i used to live in philippines and when i was 9yo. my mom told me that we were going live in canada and i thought that we have to go on a spaceship to travel. i used to believe that each planet is a country!

I used to believe Finland didn't really exist, it was just a make-believe land with a made-up name, because "fin" means "end" in my mother tongue. Also, I heard Santa Claus lived there, and I already knew he wasn't real.

I used to believe that Kansas was really black and white because of the Wizard of Oz.

I was amazed when I first heard that people took vacations in Bermuda because I assumed they were putting themselves in danger of getting sucked into the Triangle.

When I was growing up in a suburb of Boston Massachusetts I heard a commercial for the Herald Newspaper that ended with the line "Boston Moves to the Herald!" Well I didnt know what the Herald was, or even what a commercial was, so I figured that it meant they were moving the whole city and everyone was going to have to get up and move somewhere else in the state if they wanted to stay in Boston.

I used to (up until the age of about 10) believe that there was a place called Random. I thought that it was a place in London, used to pick winners of competitions!

when I was little I loved digging deep holes in the sand at my cottage. My Grandpa used to say "you are going to find China soon". I always pictured that I was going to come accross dinnerware (china plates and cups!) buried in the sand... I never thought he meant I would find China, the country! :)

i used to believe that "North" was whichever way i was facing at the time.. because on the maps in school books the directional star always had north pointing away from me..

I used to want to go to Africa so bad, so and every time I saw a nice row of trees, I used to thin Africa was right beyond the trees.

When I was little, my sister had a globe on which the states of the U.S. and those of Australia were shown in different colors, although elsewhere on that globe, different colors indicated different countries. I had already learned at the time that the U.S. was all one country. But for a long time thereafter, I thought that the states of Australia were all separate countries.

When I first heard that Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until 1949, I thought its name meant that it was a land only first found at that time, and was previously unknown.