A weird thing happened this afternoon. Lydia was over at her cousin’s house, two houses over, and when she came home she told me that two guys on bicycles (teenage boys, from the sound of it) had stopped her as she was walking home and asked her, in Swedish, if she spoke English. She said that she did and they told her that was good and gave her a piece of candy (which, of course, she was chewing on as she recounted these events *sigh*), then went on their merry way. I was completely baffled by this. Later on it emerged that she had seen at least one of these boys before and that he may have heard her speaking English, which makes it seem somewhat less threatening, but still weird. Olof says that he doesn’t think there was anything sinister about the situation, but paranoiac that I am, I can’t stop worrying about it. I gave her the talk, yet again, about taking candy from strangers and she promised that if something like this should happen again she wouldn’t eat the “stranger candy.” I just hope she sees the boys again when I’m with her so I can know who they are. I had hoped that they were Mormon missionaries looking for an English-speaker to ask for directions or something, but that doesn’t appear to be the case, from her description (she said they were wearing t-shirts), and why would they approach a first-grader in that case, anyway? Seven-year-olds are not exactly well-known for being able to speak English ’round these parts. Anyway, it was weird and I’m weirded out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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