the world: places

I used to believe that Canada was a territory of the U.S. and was one big forest.

we lived in cincinnati, ohio when i was a child and quite often drove into kentucky to get places. i was shamefully old before i realized that ky was actually another state b/c naturally i thought you had to go a long way to get to another state.

As a small child (about four years old), I went over my old friend's house and she had a nanny. Her nanny said that she was going to Sweden. I misheard it as "Sweet-n-low" (that brand of artificial sweetener) and I thought "She's going to the place where sweet-n-low is made?"

i used to belive that america WAS the world i was preety darn confused b/c i herd that there were many contries but. . .n e wayz yeah i was confused lol

I used to believe that if you kept driving in the direction of a beautiful pink sunset, you would get to my parents homeleand of Lebanon. Once on a trip my dad pointed to the very beautiful sunset up ahead and said something like it reminds him of Lebanon. I thought he said it IS Lebanon. I like the magical-ness of it, still do:)

As a child, I had the idea that Japan was a country the shape of what I now know to be France, and it was between China and India.

when i was a kid i loved the cartoon "beetlejuice" (a spin off from the movie) and i heard about a country called the Netherlands and i was incredulous.

i was like "wait, the netherworld (the world beetlejuice and all dead people lived in) is a REAL PLACE?!?!?!?"

from then on, i believed that the netherworld was a actual place you could visit in the real world

I used to believe…

that there were 52 states- alaska and hawaii right?

When my brother was very small he somehow got the idea that all people of color were from New York. I don't know how he came up with that.

When my dad would drive us around in the car, we would continuously yell out from the back seat "Where are we going? Where are we going?" My dad would say "Berserk". I was a teenager before I realized that "berserk" was a state of mind and not a destination.

I moved to Texas when I was 10, and I had just seen "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" where he has to go to the basement of the Alamo to find his bike. I was super bummed when I went to the Alamo, and it looked nothing like the movie.

When I was 4 or 5, I was told that the man who had built our house had moved to Florida when he was finished. I imagined a state covered in tile as far as the eye could see, with lots of houses sitting there on that giant FLOOR, built by the guy who built our house and was maybe just tired of hills and grass and stuff.

When I was around 6 or 7 years old, I used to believe that if I dug straight down through the earth in my sandbox that I would reach China. Well I eventually learned that, that is not true :)

I live in oregon and just to the north is a city called camas, which has a paper factory that is very stinky. when visiting my grandma we would have to pass it, and my parents would say "smells like the camas plant"....so i was under the impression that camas was an actual stinky plant that the city was named after. It wasn't till i was an adult that i found out - there is no stinky camas plant other than the factory

For some reason I used to think the Christmas of 1977 was going to be the last Christmas ever, for the whole world. There would be no more Christmases forever. WTF, I was 6 then! :-D

We used to go to my grandma's, on the interstate. We never went further and I believed that all the cars were falling off the side of the world.