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When I was 5 we rented a Cabana at the beach and I made a bunch of girlfriends. I went to play with them one day and noticed a huge hole had been dug in front of their Cabana. When I asked their father where they had gone he said, "they dug a hole to China, and said they'd be back tomorrow." I must have sat there for two hours trying to re open the collapsed sand hole to China which had caved in on the sides, to no avail. I was really excited to see they had returned the next day and had plenty of questions for them about China. They just shrugged it off as me being weird, I don't even think they knew what I was talking about!!! What a mean Parent to let me dig for so long in front of his Cabana and not even tell his daughters I was looking for them!!

Owen Elicate

When I was five I had a little children's book about the world. On the cover was little children in thier native dress holding hands circling around the whole world (read: the eskimo child was the size of freaking Europe!)

I was convinced the world was super tiny and Africa was a mere two houses away from our place. I would stand on our back patio listening to pigeons "coo-cooing" thinking I was in fact hearing tribal singing.

Danielle

I thought the Ukraine = the U.K.

and nowhere but the U.S. had t.v.

gina

I used to believe the world ended at Florida and that beyond that was just a really thick wall of sand...

Rickerus

When I was younger, I used to believe that America was the only country that existed besides my own (India), and that it was called "foreign"!!

Day

I used to think that no body lived in the others countries besides the US because they all came to America. I thought other courtries just were apart of "history" but no body lived there.

Shannon

I used to believe walt disney was buried in disneyland because of that statue were he is next to mickey mouse. so i thought it was his tombstone.
yeah i thought that 4 a long time.

haha

that therewere only 2 countries in the world: Canada and the US

Anon

Until about age 7 or 8 I though that North Dakota had a coast, because it only had other states on 3 sides & my home state had 3 states & then the ocean on the 4th side.

Sewicked

My mum used to take me to preschool on her bike. On the way we'd pass a place where American troops stayed, near a defence base, and they flew the American flag (we're in Australia). For years I thought that I was visiting America on my way to preschool

Anna

When I was little and someone would talk about Greenland, they would always say things like "up to Greenland" (because it's up North, naturally), but I always understood it as if it was in the sky. So I was always looking for a gigantic, floating country in the sky...

Anon

When I was small I used to think Africa was one whole country

Anon

Growing up in the southern US, we would sometimes pass tobacco fields which had rows of leaf drying houses in them. There were no windows in those houses and my dad told us kids that blind people lived in those houses.

Every time we would pass them I would look to see if I could spot a blind person outside, and I thought that when I got older I would go and get them and tell them they were living in houses that had no windows and that wasn't fair.

Annie

The first time I was on a plane I looked out the window and saw the seperate plots of farmland. I thought I was looking at the state borders and I got really confused when I couldn't recognize any of the states!

CJ

I had heard of certain suburbs of big cities referred to as "bedroom communities" before I ever actually visited such a place. When I first did visit residents of such a suburb, I was very surprised to find that they lived in entire houses, and not just bedrooms.

Cheryl

The world is flat.

Babui

When I was little I use to think that the United States was the entire world. I was shocked when I found out otherwise!

Emma

well, when i was 5 years old i was in the former checersslovakia(sorry about spelling its late at night) when they split into slovakia and chek republic, i thought a huge lazer beam from space was goona come and cut the country in-half, meanwhile it was only a line drawn on a map how bizarre

kitana