the world: places

As kids, when we used to ask ourdad where we would be going on our summer holidays, he would say "Ourgate" We believed that "Ourgate" was a place, in fact it was our garden gate - meaning we wern't having a holiday at all!

My Dad was a traveling salesman and as a boy he would take me on business trips during summer vacation. In the 1950's freeway system was expanding throughout California and they had markings for the roads that ran along side the freeways. They were marked as "Frontage Rd.". I remember getting on the interstate in L.A. and seeing "Frontage Rd." and then all the way to San Franciso seeing "Frontage Rd.". I thouht "Frontage Rd." was the longest street in California.

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.

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.

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!

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

I used to believe…

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

(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.

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?"

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.