The biggest party of the year

Well I survived test #3 today for services marketing, I thought it went well and it didn't take nearly as long as the other two. Next week is off for all students, because the first period is over of the semester. Then period 2 starts up a week from Monday. This is also a significant date because this the half way point to my trip, and 2 months from today I will be heading back over the pond to the great northwest.

But back to the biggest party of the year. Today is what is called around here the "drunken crawl" where thousands of students all around Finland come and do this race from pub to pub drinking the night away. So I guess at the start you choose what degree you want, but I guess it represents like grades 1-4 or frosh-senior or something like that. The higher the degree the more drinks you have to drink before you finish. The lowest degree is 8 drinks, and it goes up in increments of two each degree, so the highest would have 14 drinks. But you only get 4 hours...Plus, you have to go from pub to pub. So the starting line is at Keskustori and then from there you have a map to follow the route you have to take, or in what order you have to go to the pubs. Some pubs you only have two drinks, but some have as high as 5. Now in Finland it's a tradition to get overalls, and each colored overall distinguishes the different subjects you study. So I believe business majors are blue and international relations are green, but i'm not sure about any of the other colors. So there is a ton of drunk Finnish students running around in there different colored overalls all over downtown Tampere on Hameenkatu. So basically the streets of Tampere will be one huge party, I'm imagining something along the lines of Mardi Gras, probably not that big but something to shoot for.

This happens every year so apparently it can't be too dangerous. I got some pictures of earlier in the day, it definitely wasn't at it's peak but there were different colored overalls everywhere. Have a safe October 15ht everybody!

Moy moy