This week is Vappu week, the biggest carnival-style festivity that takes place in the streets of Finland's towns and cities and the student traditions are also one of the main characteristics of "Vappu". Today the students of Oulu university paraded in town and then at 2pm the first year students were "dunked" into a large container filled with water and ice-cubes and afterwards had to swim in the lake in town.
A group of us walked to town at 12:30 to join in on the festivities and spectate the event.It is also traditional to eat tippaleipa (funnel cake) and munkki (sugar coated donuts) so we bought some and enjoyed them while sitting at the lake. There were hundreds of people gathered around the lake to watch the swimming and join in the festivities.
Us girls (from left Barbora, Petra, Amy, ME and Lind) enjoying our Tippaleipa and Sima which is a sweet mead that one is supposed to drink during Vappu.
Pauly, enjoying his Tippaleipa!
A first year students being "dunked"
After we saw the first few students being dunked we decided to warm up in our favourite hangout - Hemingways, for some coffee and hot chocolate as it was a rather windy and cold day!
Farewell to Andrea!:(
When we came back from town, Andrea came over to say goodbye as she is sadly flying back to Austria this evening...The farewell party: Marko, Paul, Petra, Andrea, Becky and I
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