This evening in Finland and elsewhere in the North marks the start of the May Day festivities. Vappu in Finland is the big celebration of May Day, which is both the Labor Day holiday and the celebration of the arrival of spring. The drinking and pranks start in earnest, though on the evening before (April 30), and by 9:00PM you will see people falling-down drunk. Packs of students roam the streets in logo-decorated matching jump suits and white student’s caps (they look like little yachtman’s caps), and there is a ceremony of dunking matriculating students into the river from a bridge using a crane. Fun!
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