The carneval celebration at Silkeborg Højskole

It was fantastically fun at our carneval party. We began with a parade of different creatures and fairytales heroes, which went all around the

school accompanied by drums playing a samba rythmn.

The procession ended up in the assembly hall, and, hmm, what is

a carnival without dancing???  With Spanish temperament pirates

and bugs, Native Americans and gangsters were dancing samba! And

how much power was in every movement!!! (Especially in the super

heroes) maybe people from Brazil wouldn’t recognize samba in our

dancing, but we liked it.   

Then all groups had to present their costumes. All participants were

well prepared, their creativity was really impressive. Everybody had

funny and colorful costumes.

But the most interesting part for us (not from Denmark) was waiting

for the traditional carnival game “hit the barrel”. I guess it was one

of the funniest games I have ever seen, you stand in a line waiting until

it’s your turn to hit a barrel. Sounds funny, but people really enjoyed

doing that, especially boys, after some beers.

A lot of sweets fell out of the barrel after a strong strike from Roman, and that meant that he became the king of carnival!

The party continued with a performance by one of our school bands.

Everybody thought that it was great party and we have something to

remember.