the world: places

I am from Norway, and when I was younger I didn't know the difference beetween the capital in Norway (Oslo) and our neighborcountry Sweden. So - I thougth that I had been abroad if I had been in Oslo ...

Back when I first started school we were taught to remember directions: north was my head, south my feet, east my right hand, and west my left hand. So, to get to Alaska I would have to go straight up into the sky. Now I use a compass.

I used to believe that, because my mum told me that the world was eternal (as in circle, didn't understand that though), that the world really was eternal and that i could never visit every country in the world. So when I asked my mum if I could visit every country in the world, I was very surprised when she said yes!

When I was a kid i belived that that the country i lived in, Norway, covered the entire world, and that all the other countries like England, USA, China and so on was a planet of there own (usa=mars, England=Jupiter and so on)

Iam from Norway,I used to believe that I could dig a tunnel from Norway to Chaina.And that I could "travel" thru the tunnel all the way to Chaina, but not "travel" back in the same tunnel.And maybe it would take years to dig a new one so I could go home.Scary!!!

My grandpa was from Florida. When he would come to visit he would stay in a hotel in our town. My little brother, Davey, thought that when we would visit him there that we were going to Florida where he lives.

I live in Australia and when I was four I used to think New South Wales (the state where Sydney is situated) was actually in England.

when I was little, my best friend thought that when people moved, they just switched houses with one another, so when our neigbours moved to denmark, he thougt the new ones came from denmark.

I also remember him telling me that his father had given birth to him, since he was a boy. Mothers only give birth to girls!

When I was little, I thought east/west was exactly the same as right/left, and if I turned around they would change places...

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I had heard a tale of a swedish kid (called Emil, for those who know about him)that had put a sausage on top of a long stick, to trap some animal. On a high hill near the place I lived, there was an old, almost dead tree standing all alone, with just a few branches in the top. It was quite far away, and so it looked like a stick with something in the top. I, of course, thought it was the stick from the tale, with the sausage on top...

When I was a kid, I had heard that China was on the other side of the world. I lived in a valley, with hills on both sides, and I thought China was on the other side of those hills.

When I was ver young, growing up in Philadelphia, the sugar packets at area restaraunts often featured Independence Hall on them. Visiting Independence Hall on a school field trip, I was surprised to find out that they DIDN'T make sugar there!

When I was a kid, we went on a field trip to the downtown area of where we lived. Our teacher was telling us that all of the places we were visiting would turn up the heat for us or something of that nature, but I somehow thought that the city was going to heat the whole downtown. I remember telling my parents this and wondering why they were laughing.

(i live in northern europe)i believed that america was placed where asia is, and duckburg was an independent city within the usa (!)

I used to believe that the whole world ended with Paris. I also thought Europe was a country! And every time you rewinded a videocassette or played it, little men inside the videocassette had to controll the filmrollers. Heh. I came to this conclusions all by myself.

When I was little I thought there were only two countries in the world: the US and the USSR. I knew the world was round, so I pictured the Soviet Union to the north (it was cold there) and the US kind of in the middle of the globe. Everything else was just water.