World cup joke 1
Before the world cup began, I decided that we could use it to our advantage (honestly Mr LEA advisor it’s not watching football all day, it’s education in action 
). We could learn about all the countries and find them on the map, we could eat some food from any country that England play and Pea 1 loves football at the mo so I’ll be able to interest her in anything football related (oh and we may play a bit 
). So we divided all the groups up into 1 team each in each group (though we’re sharing England ) That led to this:
Pea 1-”mummy, what colour are my team?”
Me -” I’m doing tea, I can’t look.”
Pea 2- “mummy, what colour are my team?”
Me -” I’m doing tea, I can’t look.”
Pea 1-”I think I know mummy-Ecuador are the ‘ethnic’ ones”
Me- “who are they playing?”
Pea 1-” Poland”
Me-” yes dear, you’re right ”
Pea 1-” Pea 2, Pea 2, I know that the ethnic team are Ecuador”
Pea 2-” what - the blue and yellow ones?”
I had visions of little blue and yellow men running up and down the pitch .
I think the political correctness is a result of baby Annabelle. 
Whats an ethnic team? Sorry I’m obviously being a bit thick! (you can mail me the answer if its unsuitable for blogging). x x
Comment by Lin — June 13, 2006 @ 7:47 am
The ethnic team was the side with the darker skin.
It follows from a conversation about how it was very nice to say that brown babies were always cute but not very politically correct. They found it hard to understand as they tend to refer to people by (what they see as) their defining features e.g lady with glasses, brown girl, fat man and don’t really see why people would be offended if that’s what they are. Innocence can often be mis-interpreted
Comment by Administrator — June 17, 2006 @ 5:45 pm