the world: places

When I was a child, many people jumped to their demise from the "G" Street bridge. When us kids would make Mom crazy, she would threaten to 'jump off the "G" Street bridge.
I was about 20 before I realized that not every town on earth had a "G" street bridge.

when i was 3 or 4 i moved from russia to the United states. I did understand what countries were, and what the earth was n stuff. So i looked on a globe for russia. Of course i could not read yet, and i thought Austrailia was Russia!but in the second grade i finally found out it was in europe and asia.

When I heard the song "Swannee River" as a child, I didn't know that it was about any particular river. I thought it was "swanny river", meaning a river with a lot of swans swimming on it. So I supposed the song to be about any river with lots of swans.

A while ago, I was babysitting and the little girl, stacie, came running up to me and said 'The Princess of Wales has died?' I told her yes, it was quite the tragedy and she asked me why everyone was making a big deal about it. Then she promptly pulled out a map and pointed to the little island of Wales off of Canada and said: 'That island's small! It ain't even fit for me'. Of course, I had to show her where Wales really was and even then she didn't believe me! Ah, kids :)

When I was 5 years old I was out digging in our yard and I hit a roof shingle! Well now hasn't everyone always talked about digging to China? I thought that I had hit someones roof, (why there rooves would be in the dirt I do not know.) I ran into the house so excited to only get told that I had hit a shingle that was thrown there years and years ago when the previous owners had shingled their roof. I now, obviously know the difference but I gave my parents a good laugh! :)

i used to believe that all the countries in the world were in my city and i was like dad can we got to china thinking to myself that it was across the street

When I was younger I thought the farthest place in the world was Sacramento California. I have no clue why, I was from Arizona and Sacramento isn't THAT far from me.

Until today I believe that the white house was the U.S. capitol. last summer i was in D.C. and got to go into the Capital Building....i remeber telling my friends i visited the white house. i'm a loser

When I was very little I lived in a Place Called Mill Woods but we moved to where I live now And I used to think (when I was about 4-8 that Mill Woods was an actual wood and I used to live in a tree!

I used to think that France was in England and i wondered why we had to go by boat!

I used to believe that the Netherlands was Hell.

'Names Chosen at Random'
I thought Random was 'a place' an actual location where all the games and lottery and etc were sent to be chosen!

i used to believe that the ozone layer is made up of plastic and that USA is another planet.

I used to believe that Miami Beach was up on a mountaintop. When we were kids, taking our annual summer vacation in Florida, we'd fly. It made sense that going through the clouds meant it was way up there, indeed.

I used to believe "King of Prussia" was read "King of Prices" due to the fact that I could not read very well.

Not my wrong belief, but at least two Exchange Students we had were shocked seeing Australians had world maps without the Americas at the centre, which was the way they had always seen maps in the US, and obviously thought that was the proper way. One at least got the joke when I gave him one with Australia at the top of the world and Greenland at the bottom. Why not? - there is no real "up" or "down" in space.