I was 7 or 8 years old when my parents told me we were moving to England and I was convinced that London would be a small village with fluffy, warm dry snow all over it. I was very disappointed when I saw my first London snow storm (a whole 3 mm of cold wet grubby ice. Yuck!)
I also learnt about other kids' beliefs. I went to a school in Slough, where a pretty decent number of nationalities were represented and yet when I told them I was from South Africa, the response was: "but you can't be African! You're not black!"
Other favourites were:
"Did you have TVs?"
"Did you live in a mud hut?"
"Do lions wander all round the streets?"
Kids, eh?
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon
- Brown or otherwise non-white snow was snowman poop. My kids believe it too!— Dellio
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz
- when i was young i was told that thunder represented god moving the chairs about— lips
- up until about 6 years ago i thought everton was in london!Anon
- My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.— Belle