A Danish Graduation

June 30

Finally making it back to Copenhagen, I woke up early and did my laundry from the week.  Then went to the Netto, the grocery store, with Kevin, Mick, and Robin.  After we made dinner together, we went to our SRA Robin’s parent’s house to see a Danish style graduation celebration for his sister.  In Denmark, after you have you graduation ceremony from high school, you get on a truck with you class and celebrate.  They go through the streets blasting music, drinking, and making lots of noise.  All day long they make stops at each of the parent’s houses of the graduates where the parents provide food, drinks, and a bathroom.  They stay there for about 10-14 minutes and then they move on to the next house.  After they have made it to all of the houses, they go back to the school and have a party.  It was really cool to experience because it is completely different from the states.  Instead of wearing graduation caps, they wear these special hats that have different color bands symbolizing what schools they went to.  They will wear these hats the entire week, not just on graduation or at their ceremony.  After we got back, we went out with everyone in Skindergade 40 to A Bar for our last weekend in Copenhagen.  

the truck

some of the graduates with their hats