"Vi har tagit studenten, för vi har tagit studenten, för vi har tagit studenten, fy fan va vi är bra!"
- Swedish graduation song
So today, I finally graduated! Feeling hyped, and had to celebrate with a drawing!
Swedish graduation (Studenten):
- Everyone gets a paper plate medallion from their classmates jokingly dissing them
- Families give the graduates (way to many) stuffed animals
- Graduates parade through the town on decorated tractors with ridiculously loud music
- Everyone gets drunk
Written by Icelandic composer Jón Leifs in 1964, the piece called Hekla, Op 52, requires four sets of rocks hit with hammers, steel plates, anvils, sirens, cannons and metal chains to play.
Congratulations ! When I was in Stockholm it was amusing to see all the graduates in what looked like sailor hats. But nice at the same time. Well done!
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