Saturday, June 26, 2010

Summer time= party time!

June marks the starts of the "crazy period" in Denmark. As early as 8pm you can hear noises in the streets (horns, songs, ...) It is finally Graduation day!! Students in third grade (at least I think) have received the papers authorizing them to enroll for college. Usually there is an official morning ceremony.




From 11 am, another kind of music took over, when students get straight out from the ceremony at their school. Highly decorated chariots are waiting to attack the city. This festival is really very organized, each class having its own vehicule (which apparently they book sometimes one year in advance just to be sure to have one on the big day).

Then they visit with each student's parents one after the other, the tradition being that each one offer to drink (and eat) to the students. You may imagine that they do not wait the stops to drink a little beer ...! The vehicules are indeed fully loaded!
During a dozen hours they tour the city and sing, hopefully the driver is a responsible and sober pro. Each student wears a traditional cap, each color representing their discipline and have also an insignia corresponding to their religion (at least that's what we have heard).
































Of course let's not forget the beers to keep going between stops!




3 comments:

  1. I witnessed the craziness for the very first time in my town. I even saw some girls in limo or in convertibles. But my favorite one is a father who drove 2 girls on a military jeep. That's stylish!

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  2. Oh yeah military jeep ;-) They really go nuts with that celebration, it's unbelievable..!

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  3. nice pics and post Thanks for sharing :)

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