Fastelavnsfest

Wow, it has been over a month since my last post. Where did the time go?

SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED!

I have been so crazily busy, and I am worn out to no end, but it has been fantastic!

So, the weekend of the 22nd was awesome! I got to experience my first uniquely Danish celebration. Fastelavnsfest was really fun! It is a mix between celebrating lent and halloween, if you can imagine what that would be like! So some of the senior students hosted an evening party and everyone got dressed up. It isn't like halloween in the sense that the costumes were scary, they were just fun. However, that being said, some of the boys have scarred my innocent eyes for life!

 This is a human lamp cashing in some candy.

 This is Dennis, or should I say Denise? This hanging barrel is a special Fastelavnsfest party game. I don't remember the official name, but from memory it has something to do with hitting a barrel with a cat in it. It stems from a tradition from way back, where a black cat would be put into a barrel and the barrell would be beaten until the cat was dead, or the barrell was broken and the cat escaped. The cat would then be beaten to death. Horrid I know. It actually bought tears to my eyes when I first heard what it was all about back in the day. From memory, it was based on superstition! Heavy days!! DON'T WORRY!!! NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN OUR GAMES! 

Our barrell was filled with carrots!

 An interview being carried out by the lovely Ronelle

 Signe and Tasja dressed as toddlers! SO cute!

 Miley, the Po Po and Miley.

(Miley is actually dating Miley)

 The human whoppie cushion. He asked me to pull his finger. Hilar.

 Two of Vejlefjord's finest damsels.

 Lucas, or should I say Lucy? and Cecelia

 Blindfolded-hand feeding Flodeboller!

 The whoopie cushion and two turkish gents.

Finally, the Jolly Genie.

It was a great night. Full of laughs and some very disturbing costumes. 

And what was I you might ask?

Magican Caitlin of course!