We watched the opening ceremonies Saturday morning Korean time. O. was mesmerized by the "movie," and kept asking us what was going to happen next. I don't think he completely believed us when we told him that we had never seen this before either.
He especially liked seeing all the different flags as each country's athletes came in. We decided to make our own flags.
Later that night, we were headed out to go to a friend's house for dinner. O. wanted to bring along a flag, to "wave around outside." Guess which one he chose.
(If you are not aware of why a Japanese flag would not be a great one for him to wave around, just google Japanese occupation of Korea. Things are much different now obviously, but it is still a senstive issue for many) After some edited explanations of why he could not take this particular flag outside and wave it around, he decided to make a Korean flag. Good. Until he said, "Not South Korea. The other one."
More edited explanations. We finally decided on our Australian flag.
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