Countdown till the End

[sra_black]

This week is Queima das Fitas for Porto's university students. Since this is my last year, the celebrations have a particularly special meaning. Each faculty has a different color (sort of like the Houses at Hogwarts), and students wear them with pride.

Yesterday was the Cortejo Académico ("when students from the universities and other higher

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[ziasudra_fic]

Very nice! I like the blue hats -- when so many people wear them at the same time, it looks very festive :)

[sra_black]

The hats are great! Only people on their last year of college - finalistas - can wear them. The hats' color changes depending on the faculty of the student. The parade looks amazing because it's a never ending multitude of colors, each student together with the rest of the students of their faculty creating big sections of each color :) And the students shout and dance and sing (and drink lots of beer and stronger stuff), it's crazy. During this week the world goes crazy.

[tekalynn]

Do you actually burn the fitas at the end of the week, or is that just in Coimbra?

[sra_black]

Yes, we do ;) It's both in Coimbra and Porto.

[flashfly]

I love the pictures! The blue is a beautiful shade and the whole idea of celebrating like this around knowledge and learning is so cool.

Which one is you?

[sra_black]

This week is a time we eagerly await every year! It's liberating. I'm the one on the left in the last picture.

[flashfly]

I thought so. You're gorgeous. :)

[sra_black]

*blushes* Thank you.

[first_evil_boy]

Oh great day...unforgettable!!!!! I wish we had more and more like that lol it eas the best parade ever:) great photos. the last one the St. Antonio's Hispital looks like a painting lol, but as I know it is real:)

[sra_black]

Indeed, it was unforgettable. Our last parade! The incident at "Tribuna" was very unfortunate, but of course, something like that was bound to happen. We've always been a very controversial year, right from the beginning when there were barely enough caloiros for all those doutores.

The pictures are very shining and show the pride of being Letras' students! I hadn't noticed that about the last photo, but now that you mention it, I'll always think of that when I see it. I saw all the "official" pictures today. So many of them! The photographer knew what he was doing, they're very gorgeous. You're in a few of them - in a group one at least, where you all have the same sweatshirt (with different names, I noticed). It's very neat :)

[first_evil_boy]

Many people told me that the photos are now available at the bar:) I remember that the photographer took at least four photos to my group...I didn't go to college on friday so, next week I'll see them.

Some of us were with "traje", but if we (finalistas) have the chance to wear a "polo" in a day like that, why not? I've nothing against "traje" but....on sunday it was hottttt and when I got home I went straight to the bathroom LOL
Well, with our group it was always different....but regarding everything... We never failed a year...we passed exames which were difficult and when we were told that one teacher was bad, well, we always found a way:) So, I think that that makes us special...:)

I just hope evrything goes as beautiful as the parade was in the future:)

[sra_black]

Yes, the photos are there. The pictures are very good, all thousands of them, lol. He took some close-ups of people's faces, and group photos and all that. And they aren't that expensive, which is very nice.

Finalistas should be free to wear whatever they want. I think it looks much more colorful with the sweatshirts and t-shirts and the messages in them. It was so hot on Tuesday and my sneakers were killing me, I can't imagine what people wearing "traje" and those damned shoes felt.

We're the end of an era. The last ones who aren't in the Bolonha System. I think things will change a lot these coming years, the market will just have to adapt to students from the new and old system graduating together. I too hope the future will be beautiful and that all of us are able to find employment, specially doing something we like.