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I used to believe that Mexico and my family was in the sky, because we had to take a plane to visit them.

Kara

In the early 80's, I remembered there was a huge campaign to the save the world from hunger such as the song "We are the world," and I also remember all the talk about space exploration. So when they had can food drives at my elementary school, I assumed that they were sending the food by rocket to Ethopia which was located on the Moon.

Anon

When I was little I had heard the phrase "digging a hole to China." I have no idea where I heard this phrase from...but it stunned me. So...to see if it was really doable I took to the backyard and started to dig. I got about 1.5 feet, decided that no one could dig to China, and so gave up.

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that I had made up the country Italy (random I know, I have no idea where it came from). I was always surprised if other people knew about it, and I was only eight when I finally sussed it. I was devastated.

Someone-Who-Will-Remain-Anonymous

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

I used to believe the Earth was just the town I lived, in and that's it!

Richard

Like a fellow contributor i also believed that the Elgin Marbles were big and round , but worse still at the age of 36 we travelled to Scotland on Holiday in our camper van. We went to the small town of Elgin, an then i wandered around trying to find where these famous marbles were housed. Eventually the woman at Tourist information informed me that they were in LONDON

Not this time

when i was 5 i listened to the news on the radio and was tranfixed by the war with turkeys and greese. Boat loads of turkeys were arriving in greese intent on war.i was worried about the messs the turkeys would get into with all that oil on their wings.
when I was much older, I went on a Greek holiday and realised i had got it all wrong,

susan

Ever since I was a baby my parents flew to Guatemala every year for vacation. By the time I was 3 yrs old my parents would always ask, especially in front of family members and friends, "Where is Guatemala?" Well....my response was "Up there!" and point my finger to sky and [i]everyone[/i] would laugh!!! Since the plane always went up I always had this feeling that Guatemala was located on top of a cloud. Yeah...afterward I figured it all out and why everyone laughed at me!

Oti

When my family took a trip to NYC my sister even though she was 15 thought the Waldorf was a remembrance site of a small persons activist site in which a dwarf was cemented to a wall as a punishment for rioting.

Michelle Angela K.

I used to beleive that if i dig a hole in the ground i would get to Oz..... i still beleive that is kind of true.

Rachael Sampson

i used to believe that every street address of every single house represented a different and distinct country

matt

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

My sister convinced my niece that there was a bridge that went from California to Hawaii, built out of old sunken battle ships. My niece was in her twenties at the time. Now she's a lawyer. (heheheh)

Unc

When we were children, we used to believv that if we dig a deep hole in the ground, we 'll reach CHINA!

ABDULLAH SAAD

When I was about 6 I thought that Sonoma was the last city. That you could go to other cities through one direction, but if you tried to go the other direction, you would walk off of the end of the earth.

Suzanah

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...

Amanda

My father came from a place called "The Heath" in County Laois, Ireland. He used to always tell us we were "Heath Men" which meant we were strong and proud. I always thought he was saying we were "Hate Men" and I would always get angry and smack things when he told us. Curiously, it took him a long time for him to realize what I was hearing.

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