Vappu

Hello, this is Thomas and I'm going to tell you about my last party in Finland on the first of May, however this party was not a random one, it was Vappu.
Vappu is a festival, a big party, which takes place on the evening of the 30th of April and continues to the first of May. All the students and former students gather to celebrate this day, the end of the exams and drink together.

To celebrate Vappu, we decided to go to Jyväskylä, it's a bigger town than Varkaus and is 2 hours away by train. There were so many students! They were all gathered in a park with music and they had their traditional white hats, we met our Finnish friends there and we had some Sima, which is a traditional non alcoholic beverage for Vappu. There were street singers, many shops, and bars; it's a nice city.
I was there with some friends from Angers and Annecy and also our Dutch Friend. Then with a friend, we drank some unknown beverage in a kind of Finnish fraternity full of bearded men. Still, I had a fun night, it was a good experience to party somewhere else than in Varkaus. It was our farewell party, not the best, but a particular one.

Picture of Vappu in Helsinki