the world: places

When we were little me and my twin sister thought that America was the world and that every house was a country. So whenever we drove by houses we'd shout THERE'S CHINA! and when we ran out of countries we'd make them up. For instance THERE'S INGASHMITEN!

When i was about 8 years old i remember our teacher showing us a map of the world. The world on the map was flat and round, so i thought there was more countrys on the other side. One day when i was in grade 6 i asked my teacher if she would show me other half of the world, i was shocked to find out that was the whole world.

Leading up to my first visit to a seashore, I envisioned that the beach would be a narrow strip of sand, only about three feet wide. To the landward side of that narrow strip, I thought, soil and vegetation would turn abruptly to pretty much the same as they were at home, a few hundred miles inland. On the seaward edge of the beach, I supposed, there was an abrupt vertical drop into deep sea waters.

I used to believe…

up until about a month ago i found out that new england was NOT a state i was completely shocked i am 16 and have lived on the east coast since i was born i discovered my mistake this year in US history i haven't heard the end of it from my classmates

when i was about 8, my brother (who was 10) told me that if there were no trees, buildings, or houses in sight from our house all the way to Washington DC, we would be able to see the Washington Monument in clear view, without a telescope. I believed this until i was 15..

When I was a kid, I used to think, to get on the George Washington Bridge, you had to drive up the support cables that span the top of the bridge instead of driving on the flat pavement.

As a child, I had the idea that Japan was a country the shape of what I now know to be France, and it was between China and India.

I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United States

Untill I was 7 or eight I had never seen a globe so I thought Alaska and Hawaii were right next to each other. One day I asked my teacher how come Alaska was so cold and hawaii was not. The next day she broght a globe in and showed me where alaska and hawaii really were.

i used to think that there were 51 states and that the fifty first was Chicago, and its capital was buffalo.


sad to say some one told me there was 50 and that chicaog was a city, just recently

When my sister's father went to Seattle, my sister said "Is Attle nice?" She thought Attle was a person's name

At the age of 5-6, when anybody left India for any foreign country, I used to believe that there is only one other country apart from India in the entire world.

I used to think that the third world was a different planet. I imagined what it would be like to travel between the earth and the third world. I could never figure out where the second world was.

I used to believe that when I took a plane and was going to another country, that I was actually going out to space and the country was on another planet.

When I was little, I used to believe that Disneyland was in the clouds. Until I actually went to Disneyland, I figured out it wasn't in the sky, and I felt really stupid! haha :)

I used to believe that heaven and Israel were the same place, because they were both important to the bible and whenever my Grandmother visited from Israel, she came from the sky in an airplane and when she left, she left in an airplane.