places

When I was young, I used to travel alot by plane, so much so that I thought that the on top of each cloud was a country, because you had to fly up in the air to get to them.

Pondweed

When i was on holiday with my family on Orkney, we went to visit Mae's howe which is some sort of ancient burial mound. Anyway, my parents asked me what it was when we drove past it, and as i had no idea i looked at my brother for a hint. He said it was Nelson's Column, so thinking i was clever i said it to my parents. The fact that ti was a hill and not a column should have given it away for me.needless to say they did laugh and me, and still bring it up if i say something stupid.

Gill M

When I was little I used to think that the Erie Canal was named that because it was spooky there.

Cathy

Because my mum often told me where people were from I believed that the town where my aunty lived was across the street because thats where she 'came from' last time I saw her. This similar principle applied to all my other relatives. There where a lot of towns just outside our house it seems.

Bindy Bonnette

i used to think that if i dug too deep into the sand at the beach i would hit china

Anon

when i was very small i believed that the world was divided into four equal quarters: england, france, spain, and america.

Eve

I used to think that Spain was in the sky. Just because everyone who went there went on a plane- and it was pretty much the only place anybody seemed to go to in our neigbourhood!

Ellie

My older brother and I played a trick on our little brother when he was about 8. We told him that America had adopted Puero Rico as the 51st state. We didn't think he'd fall for it so completely. He believed that for like a month.

Anon

I thought suicide was a place near Liverpool, England

Scotty Carp

i used to think that bethleham was in australia, like just out in the desert somewhere

joanna

I live in Australia and my cousin who is the same age as me lives in Poland. From a very young age i grasped the concept that when it was day here it was night in Poland and vice-versa. In my mind however i believed that our lives worked in perfect unison but in reverse. For example, as i got out of bed, she got into bed. when i ate breakfast, she ate dinner. when i went to school she came home from school etc. The whole idea overwhelmed me but at the same time I remember it gave me a strong feeling of connection to my cousin.

Joanna

When I was very young our family drove from Texas to Oklahoma to visit my grandmother who lived in a small community, Rufe. I thought Rufe was the only town in Oklahoma.

Anon

i used to believe that behind the trees across the railway line (about 15 metres away)was sheffield, it's actually about half a country away, and that the end of my road led to nowhere. naturally, i don't do so great in geography these days.

pandy m

my aunt from germany came to our state (ohio) and we went to a museum with her which was only about 1 hour away and I thought she took us to germaNY CUZ THE STREet signs were blue!!! (instead of green)
so i was olways saying ''can you take us to germany again!?'' XD

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A few years ago my grandparents drove to Alaska for a vacation. When my mom told me, I asked if she meant they had their car put on a boat so they would have it in Alaska... We both figured out eventually that I had no clue Alaska is attached to Cananda since throughout my early education Alaska is in the corner of the map with Hawaii, floating around in the Pacific. I almost died when I found out, and my mom nearly died when she found out I had just found out!!! I was in my early twenties and in college. Scary, huh?!?!

miss geography

I used to think "foreign" was a country, since I heard people saying "foreign country" a lot. And I also use to think America's president (at the time Bill Clinton) is also president for every single country in the whole world.

annie

when i was about 8, my brother (who was 10) told me that if there were no trees, buildings, or houses in sight from our house all the way to Washington DC, we would be able to see the Washington Monument in clear view, without a telescope. I believed this until i was 15..

Too bad it's not true..

I used to believe that Texas was all black and white, people rode on horses, and everybody carried a gun like in the old western movies. When our airplane had a layover in Texas, I was extremely dissapointed, on the verge of tears, to realize it was really in color, and I only saw one person with a cowboy hat.

Chris

As a child I had VHS tape with many cartoons. One of them was about H.Barbera's characters (Yogi Bear etc.) as they had to do something in some India-like town (lot of funny-dome palaces and all that other stuff), and before they arrived there, they had said sth like "We have to fly to New Jersey". I thought New Jersey was that place in the India they visited later, and because of in Polish many nouns in genitive have "a" on the end changed into "i" or "y" (i.e. to Ruda -> do Rudy), for many years I believed they were talking about city in India called Nyujersia. I realised they were talking about USA late in elementary school, as I noticed that every time that US state N-E-W J-E-R-S-E-Y was spelled just as that mysterious place in India!

Wojtek Karkoszka, Poland