Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Student Party

As I am year 3 of Swedish high school (the last year) I am able to graduate in June. The thing is though, with Sweden you don’t wait until June to start celebrating the fact that you are graduating high school. You start now! 

Student parties are held with your class. When you start Swedish high school (when you are 16) you chose a class and you stay in that class until you graduate. So you get pretty close with your class! My party was held with my class as well as another class in the same program!

Each different party has a different theme. Mine was Supernatural, which is quite a hard theme to dress up to if you don’t want to be superman or a vampire, so naturally I went as Dumbo. Dressing up as Dumbo and then getting on a train to get to the club was rather interesting and I got quite a lot of odd looks but it was ok because my friend was dressed up as a robot with blue hair!

The night starts off with a dinner with both the classes and parents if you wanted to invite them. We had our main meal and chatted away! After the main meal it was time to get given what we are in the class! This is decided with the whole class before the dinner and you find out on the night! What you are is written on a paper plate.  I got “Klassens Hobbit” or “Class Hobbit”. The reason for this was because I am from New Zealand and when they think of me they think of Green New Zealand in Lord of the Rings and of Frodo! Once you get your plate you wear it all night! It is quite funny seeing everyone wearing paper plates around all night! After that we had desert and then the party really started!!

The tables where cleared away and the club was restored to its usual dancing, parting self and friends all started to arrive! Then it was time to dance the night away till a nice time of three in the morning!

It was such a fun night and something that sure doesn’t happen back in New Zealand. The differences when it comes to school things is crazy. A class party in a club would not be a happening thing in New Zealand so having that experience is amazing! I am really looking forward to graduation now! It should be a fun day!

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