the world: places

I used to think that people from different states(I live in the USA) spoke different languages. When my parents told me we were leaving going to Colorado for a vacation one year, I became terrified that I would have to learn Spanish! Thankfully, however, I understood everyone there. In fact, my younger self might be surprised to learn from my older self that, living in Arizona, most people seem to a speak a different language from me IN state!

When we were little me and my twin sister thought that America was the world and that every house was a country. So whenever we drove by houses we'd shout THERE'S CHINA! and when we ran out of countries we'd make them up. For instance THERE'S INGASHMITEN!

When I was a child there was this certain filed where we would always go for a picnic on Easter. So I got the idea that that place WAS Easter, rather than Easter being a day.

When I heard the song "Swannee River" as a child, I didn't know that it was about any particular river. I thought it was "swanny river", meaning a river with a lot of swans swimming on it. So I supposed the song to be about any river with lots of swans.

As a tiny kid in the Midwest, I used to overhear the tv newscasters talking about the Mid-East. I was embarrassingly old when I finally realized that they weren't actually talking about Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

When I was seven tears old, my family flew from Alabama to Denver. When we we over the plains, I saw the lines dividing farmers fields. I Assumed they were borders separating states and could not understand why there were so many since there are only 50.

I used to believe that the black lines that divide states were actualy on the earth. We used to drive from Missouri to Maryland and I'd always watch for the lines, but because I never saw them (duh) I thought Missouri was just HUGE.

I figured it out when I was 8

When I was little I use to think that the united states were the only part of the world and no other countries exsisted

I used to believe…

up until i was 9 i believed washinton d.c. was in washinton state.

i live in a lakeside house and when i was about 4-7, i thought across the lake was disney land and mexico. i picked out the hotels, rides, everything.

When I was younger we went on a road trip to Chicago and on the way we passed a town called joilet (i think). I read the sign and thought it an advertisement for a girl's toilet so on my wish list that christmas I asked Santa for a joliet because I was convinced I was using the wrong toilet. I ended up getting a map of Joliet and cried. I was a really weird child....

There was a kid in 4th grade that believed the size of some foriegn country's map was its actual size! "Ms. Teacher" he said "how can people walk on such a tiny country?"

i used to believe that i had been to europe. one time my parents took me to a large body of water and told me it was "the other side of the ocean." it must have been a large lake or something. anyway, they disavow any knowledge of telling me this to this day. i know it happened.

i used to believe that i had been to europe. one time my parents took me to a large body of water and told me it was "the other side of the ocean." it must have been a large lake or something. anyway, they disavow any knowledge of telling me this to this day. i know it happened.

When I was young, I thought ALL European countries were monarchies with kings, queens, princesses, dukes, etc. And even Yugoslavia was wealthier than Spain.

in kindergarten, I naturally hated boys. And I used to tell my friends (who were all girls, of course) that if we dug a deep enough hole, we'd get to this magic kingdom where girls lorded over boys and we'd all be princesses. I really believed this, so for many a recess my buddies and I would be in the sand, digging a hole. The boys could not figure out why we kept digging, and we didn't tell them. We did get mad, however, when we'd come back out at recess and find that someone had filled our hole in!