the world: places

I live in California. While in the car at night on the highway, I used to think that the lights I saw were from New York, since my parents said they come from big cities.

I used to think there was a center spot in the world. And whenever i gaze up the sky, i thought i had found that spot

My gran used to live in a coastal town an hour and a half away fom my town. Her back yard isn't fenced, its just gose out to this small feild shaded with spaced out trees, a bit ferthur beyond that was a wide river that went out to sea. Every time I went to the river, i could see the shore on the other side of the wide river. I used to belive that shore was the edge of new zealand, beacuae the town(newcastle) was on the southern east coast of Australia. I soon learned from my older brother when i told him that new zealand is much much further away than that.

When I was 5 or so, my dad told me that Albequerqi, New Mexico was named after Al Bequerqi. He said Mr. Bequerqi was dieing, and had learned that they were trying to rename his hometown, so he got them to name it after him, Albequerqi...

I hadn't thought about this until last week (I'm 15), when my dad and I were trying to figure out the capital of New Mexico, and I said, "Isn't it Albequerqi? Yeah, cause you told me the story about that!" He said, "What?" And I preceeded to retell him about Mr. Bequerqi.

I was devastated when he told me this wasn't true, and he denies ever telling me this. When my mom came home later, I pointed at dad, virtually screaming, "HE MADE UP MR. BEQUERQI!"

For the longest time I thought that the entire world was living in the past while the United States was the only country in the present. Ex: I thought that anyone from Africa lived in a hut and if you were from China you lived like Mulan. When an African foreign exchange student came to live with us I asked her if she had ever been chased by a lion. Bewildered, she said no. Then I wanted to know if they took field trips to the Savannah. No, they didn't. Finally I tried showing her how appliances work, thinking she'd be amazed by electricty, turns out she had all of those things too! I was sooo confused. It took a long time for me to realize that people from different countries live in houses just like ours. lol

When I was little I used to think that mexico was on the clouds because U had to take a plane to get there.

i used to think that there were 51 states and that the fifty first was Chicago, and its capital was buffalo.


sad to say some one told me there was 50 and that chicaog was a city, just recently

I thought that in Hawaii, the water fountains dispensed pineapple juice. For free!!! I wanted to go there just to get all the free pineapple juice I could drink. (Wasn't there an episode of the Brady Bunch or some other TV show where this happened?)

These beliefs aren't mine, but of my friends. They are TERRIBLE at geography. They believe that New England is in Europe. They believe that South Africa is just a general region and not a country. Worst of all, they think there are 52 states in the US. Whenever I tell them that there are only 50, they tell me that I forgot Alaska and Hawaii. Their lack of knowledge of the states became apparent when one of my friends made a project which involved "taking a bridge from Florida to California." For the uninitiated: they're on different ends of the country. He didn't do so well on that project.

I used to believe that you could dig a hole or walk to China. I'd dig holes in my sandbox all the time, but I always got bored. Whenever I got mad at someone in my family, I'd say "well I'm running away to China!" and I'd walk probably 2 house lengths at the most and then get scared that Chinese people were gonna come and kidnap me and take me to China so I'd go home.

I used to think that the sky had giant letters saying "Massachusetts" over that state like the map had it. Like, over the Atlantic Ocean had that written in the sky over it. *shakes head*

When I was little I used to believe that in those ball play pit things at Chucky Cheese's there were big mice (like Chucky Cheese) but evil waiting to kill me...I didn't get in one until I was 9.

Also, when I was younger I used to believe that Turkey was the capitol of Kentucky...because Kentucky Fried Chicken. I was heartbroken when I discovered it was a country in Europe

Untill I was 7 or eight I had never seen a globe so I thought Alaska and Hawaii were right next to each other. One day I asked my teacher how come Alaska was so cold and hawaii was not. The next day she broght a globe in and showed me where alaska and hawaii really were.

I live in NY. Me and my older sister used to think that FL was right over the mountains seeing as you can't see whats over them. And now my younger cousin thinks that too.

'Names Chosen at Random'
I thought Random was 'a place' an actual location where all the games and lottery and etc were sent to be chosen!

I used to believe that America was actually the entire world and that people from every state spoke a different language. People from Ohio (where I grew up, of course) spoke English. I was always confused as to why my grandparents who lived in Illinois spoke English...I guess I figured that they moved from Ohio.