the world: places

I used to think that each house was a different state.

I used to think that Toronto was in Pennsylvania. I was 13 and about to go into 8th grade when I found out it was in Canada.

When I was a child, my dad used to get in the car and go off on his own on some Sundays -- his only day off. I always wanted to go, and when I asked him where he was going, being from Arkansas, he would say, "Off a piece". Until I was in sixth grade I thought there was a town in the San Joaquin Valley called Ofapece.

when i was younger i used to believe that since there was the countries hungary and turkey that there was one called spoon, and i found it on the globe once and i always wondered why i could never find it again

When I was younger I thought that if I dug a hole that I'd fall through the Earth and into outer space.

When I read a map, I used to think that Indiana was India. I asked my mom can we go to India, it's only the next state. (I live in Chicago)

When i was little i lived near the mountains and i always believed that over the mountains was china, learning later on that we were no where near china, not even on the same continent!

I truly did believe that I could dig to China. My friends and I spent an entire day trying to get there. Unfortunately, once we hit the bottom of their sandbox, we had to start all over out in the yard.
We got about 2 feet down with the shovels before we gave up.

I used to believe that foreign countries were actually different planets and when you travelled in a plane you were actually travelling through space.

When I was little,when I looked at maps I thought places were really that close together.I always used to ask "Let's go to Washington,it's only a small walk away!"
Yes,I was that stupid.

When I was little I used to believe that the people in places south of the equator had to wear special shoes so they wouldn't fall off the face of the earth. And that people in Australia had the technology to jump up in the air, which was really falling or so I thought, and not fall off into space.

When I was very little, I couldn't understand how people living on the bottom of our round earth could stand. I thought if you went down there you would just drop head first into outer space.

In the city where my grandmother lives, there is a tall building near the highway. Everytime we drove passed by it I thought it was the state of Texas (where my Aunt lived at the time) because it was called Donahue and my aunt went the Phil Donahue show, which was located in Texas. Wild, huh?

I used to not know the difference between "city" and "building." So when Mom and Dad said the city we lived in was San Jose, I pictured us all living in this giant skyscraper (really big, like city blocks wide and totally hollow)... I assumed that that was where we would go if there was some sort of big emergency... like a natural disaster or something. I had scary dreams about all of us having to leave our house and go live in San Jose (the giant skyscraper)

I used to believe that igloos never really existed, & that they were just silly made-up things used in cartoons. I guess the idea of living in a house made of ice was too unbelievable for me to handle...?

When I was 9 I believed the Des Moines was said "Dez Moanez".