Called to preschool – 100 years late – Expressen

After the letter from the municipality fell down on the hall carpet of Maja Bergström, 104, thought she barely their eyes.

Hylte called her with the letter to the start of the general kindergarten – so-so 100 years too late.

– Both me and my mother was about to laugh ourselves to death, says daughter Birgitta Bergström, 79, who appointed guardians of the municipality.

the somewhat unexpected shipment arrived at the mother and daughter Bergstrom Unnaryd last week. The letter was addressed to the 79-year-old daughter, Bridget, and in the text explained the municipality that it was about information on the public preschool that by law must be offered to all children between three and five years from September of the year the child turns three.

But in this case the letter came a little too late, Maja Bergström was born a few months before the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean, and she does not feel quite compelled to start in kindergarten.

– it’s amazing. I am the first 104-year-old in Hylte who received an invitation to go to preschool. That’s the warning for the six teeth, she notes in Hallandsposten who first wrote about the unusual summons.

104-year-old with good humor

Maja Bergström would not be herself if she did not it all with a wide grin and good humor. The newspaper speculates her about how she will get to kindergarten, she does not believe that the municipality drop away herself, rather she take the bus.

– It’s kind of funny the whole thing, says Birgitta, tells of a letter that Maja’s second daughter wrote after the news that the mother would start kindergarten:

“So much fun that you will have to start at the recreational, mom. Maybe another also get the chance when the age is right. Ask the guardian to she makes sure you do not get run over when to cross the road. “

” she’s a mother hen “

Although Maja takes events with roses, she can not help but be a little Damn that the municipality has not taken the trouble to spell her name right.

– she’s real name Delphina, although she always called Maja, but local calls her Delfina in the letter, says Birgitta.

child and youth chief Stigert in Hylte Pettersson explains in the newspaper that the invitations were sent out to all children born in 2011, 2012 and 2013, but that one data set was also born in the last century came with.

As a 104-year-old lives Maja otherwise a quiet life with her daughter at home in the apartment in Unnaryd. With his age keeps herself mostly inside but likes to go out on the porch. Hearing and sight is not what it was but she is totally with the rest.

– There are plenty of gunpowder in the bitch, every time I go out, she says “make sure you have dressed up properly and beware of moose and deer. She is a real mother hen, says Birgitta Bergström.