My first Blog, The best parade in Portugal (Queima das Fitas Coimbra)

This is my first BLOG and i was thinking a lot about the topic of the blog and about the language.  For me it was really difficult to decide, which language to choose, because I have a lot of friends all over the world, but the majority of them are living in Colombia. The problem is that they can understand English, but they would probably be lazy to read my Blog in English, so I am going to try to write it in both languages, Spanish and English. And by the way, I am so sorry for my English I am not a native speaker and I don´t have much time during the morning to write the Blog.

Actually I am living in Portugal, Lisbon, so my first story will be about something from here.

On the 8^th of May, me and my friends, Sibney, my flatmate, Cristian Serje Reyes from Barranquilla in Colombia (http://cristianserje.blogspot.com ) and his girlfriend Johanna from Germany,

we went to visit one of the best parties in Portugal  “Queima das fita” (The Ribbon Burning festivities) in Coimbra. It is a kind of parade, festival, party I don’t know how to call it because it is a mixture of all. This is organized by the students who are studying the last semester or year in the university and they are celebrating the graduation.  The idea is that they have been organizing some activities, parties or some similar stuff during the year for fundraising, and do you now for what..? To buy a lot of beer, food, different types of alcohol, and to decorate cars or buses with flowers for the parade. During the big day, they are passing through the entire city in these beautiful beers- , food-, shots and cocktails giving cars. And moreover, everything is for free. The people are next to the road just watching the parade or there are some people like us, who prefer just to follow the car with more happiness and better drinks

So around 5pm I started to see a lot of people drunk and really crazies’ things. 

Around 5pm I started to see a lot of people drunk doing crazies things. For example: people taking shower with beer, ladies doing pee in the street, or drinking beer using shoes as a glass. I have never passed so much fun before in such a short time. I remember that my friends had many beers so we were drinking the cold ones and we were playing with the warm ones. We were hooting or throwing them between us or to the others.

If you are in Portugal around may don´t think twice and try to enjoy this cool Party.