As I was explaining the concept of midsummer to my South African colleagues a few days ago, I found myself staring in disbelief at a few video clips from YouTube. The clips showed hundreds of Swedish men and women jumping around a maypole, pretending to be little frogs.
Hundreds of sober and mentally sane men and women, pretending to be little frogs, making loud frog noises.
“What’s up with that”, they asked. “Why do you pretend to be little frogs”?
I have absolutely no clue why. Do we look like little frogs?
Swedish men
Little frog
There’s the ridiculous frog song too….I used to have two Swedish colleagues who performed it every year then made us eat horrific fish. Quality.
