the world: places

when i was a kid i belived that behind the mountain it was only africa until 2001 when i first look at a map

Until maybe 8th grade, I didn't know Alaska was attatched to Canada. And neither did my mom, I was looking at a map in my history book, and when she looked at the map, she said "Wait, Alaska's connected to Canada!?"

I live in Puerto Rico a small island in the Caribbean. My house had a fence dividing the backyard from the forest. My sister and I, since we were told that China was far away from us, thought that if we crossed the fence in our backyard we would arrive at China. And every day my sister would look out to the backyard and would cross the fence and come back and then start saying to my mom that she had gone to China.

At the age of 3, no one thought to inform me that all the different countries were in one planet. I went on believing that the United States, England, and other countries were each their own little planets in the solar system.

I used to believe that Puerto Rico was located up in the clouds in the sky.

I used to think that the name of the state of Illinois was pronounced "In-louis". It really sucked when we learned the states in 3rd or 4th grade, and I was so proud I knew what the state of "In-louis" was called!

Once when I was little, we took a road trip to Ohio (the next state over). I kept asking "Are we there yet?" She told me I would know when we were there, because the grass would be purple. I was VERY disapointed when we got there...

Up until the age of 6, I thought that Los angeles was the contient of north America and i thought California was the exact city I lived in.

My husband told me that when he was 2-3, and he was living with his grandmother in this small town in Arkansas, he used to read the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and he really believed that all white people lived in New York, because he never saw any white people where he lived.

I used to have no idea where we went when we flew to california. Since we flew upwards, I thought it was reasonable that california and other places were on other levels of the earth. Whenever i looked up I would wave because I thought that maybe if my cousins or grandparents were looking down then myabe they could see us. I also wondered how you could get to places that were on levels below you. I was therefore very surprised to find out that you could actually go in a car to california.

When I was a very young child, living in Long Beach, CA, I believed Santa Ana winds came from the city of Santa Ana (in the next county to the South). Why else would the winds be named that?

I used to believe that we all lived inside the Earth and not on the surface... for whatever reason.

if anyone has seen the movie "dumb and dumber" they say that aspen is in california. well i saw the movie when i was like 7 so from then on i thought aspen was in california instead of colorado

when i was lil i thought that all the world was joined 2 gether apart from wales and i went 2 spain once i thought that was in england
well i thought all the countrys was in england
how dumb am i
lol

For whatever reason, I used the think that the Washington Monument was called the "Money Building..." Money, Monument, same thing, right? Well I used to think that was where all the money was made and was so confused about how so much money could come out of a building so thin!

Other countries were in the sky as everybody went there by plane.