the world: places

I used to think that lesbians were people that came from Lebenon and that people from germany were called germs,

Maryland was actually a huge amusement park, i.e. Merry-Land, like Disneyland.

I thought you could get banned from checking out books in a library if you accidently rip a page. Whenever I'd rip a page accidently, I would be scared when we had to return them, thinking I will never be allowed to check a book out again. Luckily that didn't happen!

I believed that they had polar bears in poland until I went there and asked "Wher's the polar bears?"

I used to believe that in United States all the buildings will fall because when I was child I saw the terrific 9/11 in the TV and I had a trauma.

Me and my best friend used to think Warsaw was pronounced "War-sah" until one of our polish friends told us how it was really pronounced

I thought Deutschland and the Netherlands were the same place.

I thought that wars and battles were the same thing, and that conflict between countries were all just settled with one big fight.

I used to believe the UK wasn't really free. I always heard that the US was special because it was a "free country", and learning about the American Revolution confused me as well, so I assumed the UK still wasn't "free"

I used to think public was a section of Boston

I used to believe the world was a horrible place full of selfish people, hypocrites, liars and murderers. Now I know the world is only like that if you look at it that way.

I used to think when you lost balloons, they would go to balloon land. I thought my balloons would be happier there, so every time I got a balloon I let it go, thinking it would fly to balloon land. And sometimes I'd bring it home, and let it go from my balcony. I began to think as balloons as a separate species. I wanted to send a note along with one and see if the leader of balloon land would write back to me, but then I got worried that an evil balloon might get ahold of it and take my mom to balloon land.

Don't worry, I'm normal now.

I used to believe that the world is a wonderful place full of great people, a world where good people are rewarded for being honest and gentle, a world where I could be happy.

I used to think that countries were states and states were countries.

when i was 2 or 3, my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins were always talking about going to Miami. I thought they said "My Ami" so i always wondered why I didn't have my own "ami" to go to.

I thought Turkey was ruled by a turkey chancellor. To me, Turkey was a peaceful country with a lot of shepherds, and all of their sheep were from France. I had one snafuous understanding of the world when I was little