the world: places

I used to believe…

a friend of mine during geography class asked if the earth was round then why did it take so much time for travelling frm us to australia when they could go the other way round it would be faster.
answer her!

Once I came home from school and my mom told me we had bombed Iraq. I wondered what she was talking about. After a few moments of thinking I asked her, "Were there people on the rock?".
I actually thought she had said "we bombed a rock". :P

My older brother and I played a trick on our little brother when he was about 8. We told him that America had adopted Puero Rico as the 51st state. We didn't think he'd fall for it so completely. He believed that for like a month.

I used to believe that you could dig a hole or walk to China. I'd dig holes in my sandbox all the time, but I always got bored. Whenever I got mad at someone in my family, I'd say "well I'm running away to China!" and I'd walk probably 2 house lengths at the most and then get scared that Chinese people were gonna come and kidnap me and take me to China so I'd go home.

My gran used to live in a coastal town an hour and a half away fom my town. Her back yard isn't fenced, its just gose out to this small feild shaded with spaced out trees, a bit ferthur beyond that was a wide river that went out to sea. Every time I went to the river, i could see the shore on the other side of the wide river. I used to belive that shore was the edge of new zealand, beacuae the town(newcastle) was on the southern east coast of Australia. I soon learned from my older brother when i told him that new zealand is much much further away than that.

When I was a really little kid, I thought that everyone in the U.S. lived in Ohio (where I lived). I knew there were other states, but I thought people just went there for vacation. I never realised that Ohio was way too tiny for those hundreds of millions of people to live...

i used to believe that Chicago was the capital of Illinois because that where Oprah lived....i found this not to be true in fourth grade after i had raised my hand proudly and said...."Chicago is the capital of Illinois because Oprah lives there."

i used to believe that the north pole was on the clouds!

When I was seven, we took a family trip from Eastern Canada to Florida. I was told by my parents we had to change planes in Washington (D.C., I found out years later). So I went and checked a map, but the only Washington I could find was Washington State. I could not figure out why we were flying so far out of the way (all the way across America and back) to get to Florida.

i used to think the united states were all that the world consisted of. i never understood there was any other country.

I used to believe there were 52 states. I thought Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia were states.

When i was younger i thought a boarder (like between countries) was an actual board, like a piece of wood that you had to walk over

I used to think Toronto was in Japan--I think I mixed it up with Tokyo. I also thought Poland and Portugal were the same thing.

I used to think that all Chinese people looked like panda bears...

I used to think that it was snowy all the time in Russia.

I used to believe that people were talking about Kenton in Greater London when they were talking about the county Kent, and wondered how people could have beach holidays there when it is inland and not coastal.