places

When I was four, my aunt took us to Biloxi Beach in Mississippi. While swimming in the Gulf I kept wondering what was on the other side and decided it must be Greece. I think I got this because I watched an old spy movie a few nights before our trip and one of the female spies was Greek.

Guppy Girl

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.

Anon

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!

Funky Cold Candita

When i was little I would always look for lost islands on the globe

Jessica

my friend used to believe that the maps of the world only showed halfof the world. her second grade teacher told her the truth.

Jenn's friend

being an american, i didn't know too much about britian and it's three seperate countries in one country thing. i assumed that all of britian was called england, and i also assumed anyone who called the ocuntry Britian was wrong or weird. i would always correct people who talked about british things and say, "no, it's english!!" So one day in school, when the teacher referred to britian on a map and explained the countries thing, i told her it was all england. i eventually got in a bit of trouble for talking back. go figure.

JC

I was told that if you dug a hole deep enough (from the US), that you'd end up in China. I wondered what kids were told in other places, like maybe Africa, but as I've asked people from all over, it seems that they never really thought about it.

Scott

When I was a kid, we would sometimes drive through a tunnel in town. Near the access lane was a big street light, consisting of many lights on a kind of upside down flying saucer. I had no real idea how far or how big this object was, but I thought it was actually a small town in the clouds. Obviously, there had to be a way to get there. So everytime we'd drive past this street light, I saw a small road nearby which I thought was the way to this mysterious city. So I'd always ask my dad if we could drive this road, and he'd tell me 'maybe one day'. I was puzzled by the fact I could not see the other end of the road entering into the city up in the air. But I accepted that fact: after all, I knew I was only a kid, and thus there had to be a few things I could not understand nor explain!

Denis (France)

I used to believe that 'Newark' was just how Americans pronounced New York. I thought this until a couple of weeks ago (I'm 18). Cause that's how it sounds on the Sopranos.

Anon

I remember when i was little i had a basic idea of the world. Except that when ever some one mentioned england or london i thought"that must be in/near Kentucky." maybe i was confused by the fact that there is a place called new london like that nearby. great britan confused me even more

Ricky

i used to think that housten was a real person and not a place, im 16 and i found this out yesterday......!lol

jess p

When I was a kid they always had commercials for vacations to Jamaica where all the happy island people were singing and playing guitar. I didn't know there was more than one Jamaica so when we took the train to Jamaica, Queens I was really surprised.

Missy

(I live in the united States)

I used to believe that China was over the mountains. So When I was in Kindergarden our bus driver got mad at us for being loud on the bus and said, "you better be quiet, or I will turn this bus around and take you all over the moutain and make you go back to school!" I was scared because I didn't to go to school in China. I wanted to go to school in the united states. I was also scared of chiniese people at the time.

Jeremy

As a small child (about four years old), I went over my old friend's house and she had a nanny. Her nanny said that she was going to Sweden. I misheard it as "Sweet-n-low" (that brand of artificial sweetener) and I thought "She's going to the place where sweet-n-low is made?"

Happy person

I used to believe that we lived inside the world. I was so confused to hear that we didn't because when I looked at the sky it looked like a big blue dome, and it was beyond me that we could live on top of a dome.

Steve

When I was about 4-5, I used to believe that if I dug a deep enough hole in the sandbox, I would eventually end up above China, looking down at the chineese people from their heaven.

Mia

When I was in the 5th grade, our geography techer always used the word "Vice-Versa"...for almost a whole year I believe that it was a mountain or something in some distant part of the world.

Nitin

When I was young, I lived in a place with lots of mountains. I used to think that those mountains were different countries, like Australia and Canada.

Anon

I used to believe that I could dig to China at the beach. For some reason I thought that my plan to dig through how many thousands of miles of rock and burning hot lava would work better if I were 3 inches tall, so I attempted to make a shrinking pition, using milk, crumbled up chocolate chip cookies, and raspberry jam.
What an intelligent child I was.

Anon

I used to believe that there were only two languages: english and spanish. Because of that, I thought there were only two countries: The U.S and Spain! I also thought Spain was about the size of Africa!

Plankicorn