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The Last day of School Traditions
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libertybelle
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The Last day of School Traditions
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Today is a very special day in Denmark.
It is the last day of school, graduation is over.
and now a very special tradition begins.
Every High School graduation class has decorated a truck
with banners and flowers and they travel from house to house
visiting each student �s family - where they eat and drink for 15 minutes and then on to the next house. That �s a lot of houses to visit because they are usually 24 in a class. They party for the rest of the night at the last house.
You can hear the trucks honking and the kids in the back of the truck singing and cheering all through the streets and people wave and wish them good luck.
It �s such a great tradition! How is it in your country?
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25 Jun 2010
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teresapr
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In Portugal high school sts just commemorate with a dinner and a ball. That type of truck is typical of university sts. When they are finishing their studies and getting their degree(last year) each college decorates a truck which goes along the town while sts sing, shout and drink very happily... |
25 Jun 2010
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Zora
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Wow! That is such a wonderful tradition Lisa! I love it!! 
Here, the only traditions that I know of, are the typical end of year dinner with classmates; and students burning their school books in the huge bonfires on The Eve of Saint John the Baptist that is celebrated on June 23 in many parts of Spain.
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25 Jun 2010
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maria da rosa
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Unfortunately my country is crawling in this question of EDUCATION! |
25 Jun 2010
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Sonn
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I graduated from my University today))The celebration here depends on the University. Our ceremony was rather short and formal. The professors congratulated us, we gave them flowers and went to celebrate it to a cafe.
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25 Jun 2010
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sulekra
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Here in the Czech Republic there �s a great tradition of all the students dressing up and walking the streets asking for money so they can drink and celebrate, and they actually get a surpringly large amount of people donating:) In Australia though my last day involved eggs, water balloons and flour and generally making a mess than any sort of creativity - with these ingredients we probably should have made a cake instead!;)
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25 Jun 2010
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MarionG
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Here in Israel (In our school at least) the 6th graders, finishing primary, have an end of the year party which involves theather sketches (usually humorous) and slideshows with pictures, speeches etc. All the teachers who ever taught them are invited as well as parents etc. of course. High school graduates do something similar.( and party afterwards)
Upon finishing highschool in Holland (in my time) we would hang our schoolbags and books (tied to a rope) from the window, somethimes together with a flag to catch attention as a sign someone in the house graduated.
When I graduated from the university (also in Holland) we just had a very fancy ceremony and an equally fancy gathering for a drink and congratulations (the kind where you stand with a glass of wine in your hands and shake hands with people you don �t know, no sitting....) Maybe it was formal because I studied Law, a less formal approach might be the norm for other studies.. |
25 Jun 2010
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baiba
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Lisa, it sounds (and looks) so interesting! We �ve never had trucks involved in Latvia! (There might be students �s cars though  ...)
The school leavers in Latvia usually have a big ceremony with the official part - receiving of the certificates, taking group photos, giving flowers to the teachers - followed by a ball with a band and often a table laid in the classrooms. Students are allowed to drink their "first" glass of champagne in the school premises.
Young people often go on with their celebrations in the sauna or a guest house somewhere in the countryside (sometimes with a few adults helping but most often not).
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25 Jun 2010
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yolprica
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I had never heard anything about the trucks and sounds really funny. In Spain we have the typical formal dinner with mates, parents and teachers for students who finish their studies at high school and not all high schools do it.
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25 Jun 2010
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aliciapc
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Hi Lisa, here we just have either an end-of-term trip to some seaside not far away (summer here in Dec) to spend a day or two or more (depends on the money!) and / or a party if they are graduating, usually one with adults in the evening and another one just the classmates, at a disco, later. |
26 Jun 2010
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