the world: places

When I was younger, I believed that the maps I saw in school were only half of the Earth, and that other schools had the other side of the world. Then I asked my mom why I only had to study one side of the map for my test, then I was informed that that was the whole thing. I was kind of upset that that was it, I had always imagined of great places on the other side.

I live in the United States, and when I was four I didn't know where that was on a map. I got a little toy globe that showed the names of all the continents but not the countries. I knew I lived in "America", but on the globe I saw North America and South America and I didn't know which one I lived in. I decided South America was cooler because it had the Amazon Rainforest, so I chose to think I lived there, but was corrected by my parents soon after.

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

When i was a kid i thought that there was an English town called "Lestershire" and an entirely different town called "Leicestershire" that is pronounced the way it's spelled.

I thought Moulin Rouge was a person.

I used to think that Nevada was Nineveh

When I was little I believed that only Spain existed

I used to believe…

That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.

I used to believe that electricity was manufactured in a factory in a place called 'Electriz City'.

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, 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!

The World - as a kid i never believed that Ancient Rome was actually in the same country as Rome is today, this went on till i was, hh, hm.. 18 !!

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.

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.

When I was little the were a string of arsons in my city. And I remember thinking, man I wouldn't want to live on Arson street, there is always a fire there.

When I was in elementery school I had a book that explained the three branches of the US government. There was a map of the United States that showed pictures representing each branch. For the Executive Branch it showed the White House in a circle on New Jersey and Pennsylvania. For the Legislative Branch it showed a picture of the Capitol on Virginia. And for the Supreme Court it showed a picture of the Supreme Court Building on Ohio. Ever since then I always picture the Supreme Court meeting in Ohio. Although now I know it meets in Washington, I can't shake the image of the court being in Ohio.