It's Time To CELEBRATE (well almost) !!!

Instead of studying and thinking about my AP tests, i've thought a lot about what it would be like after i'm finished taking them. For instance, lots of movies, parties, and open hours. What glorious open hours they will be!! I have also put a lot of thinking into how the partying should be done. I don't mean become so inebriated that one needs to be rushed to the emergency room for blood poisoning, but a ceremony that will go down in the history, so that when we are on our death bed, we'll look back and remember what an awesome full blown celebration we had after the hardest tests of our lives had been completed. So i researched what kind of ceremonies are done to celebrate something significant. Here we go!


The Maasai Tribe:


This ceremony is only for the true die hard celebraters after the long haul of studying, anxiety, stress, uncertainty, questioning why on ever did you sign up for such a course, etc.

The Maasai are also famous for drinking a mixture of cattle blood and milk during ceremonial rites. An arrow is shot at close range to punture the jugular vein of the cow. The blood is drawn into a skin gourd and later mixed with milk to be drunk by the gathering. The animal is not left to bleed but is carefully tended to, till it fully heals.Their rites and traditional ceremonies are taken very seriously, and it is not common to allow outsiders to attend.



Pa Dong:

This cermony is more for being married, but i figured we could apply it, by adding a ring per hour studied or adding a ring if you feel an intense emotion of stress.

Rings are snapped around the necks of girls beginning at the age of six. A few rings may be added every year, up to a limit of 20. The record, according to one village woman, is 28 brass rings.
The women's necks aren't actually stretched. Rather, the weight of the rings gradually crushes the women's collar bones, producing the illusion of long necks. At least, that's the official explanation. In person, the effect is sufficiently striking to overwhelm thoughts of any rational explanation. The necks seem eerily elongated. The women look like giraffes.
They move around the village slowly, stopping to pose for tourist photos. Our guide explains that the women only remove the rings on their wedding night. Then, a long and elaborate process of neck washing ensues. Otherwise, the rings must remain in place, because the women's muscles can no longer support the neck alone.




Well, this post will be perhaps continued at a later date, but i doubt. There are thousands of ceremonies and it's taking forever to weed through the traditional dancing around the fire and singing and shouting to the sun gods, and the really insanely cool ones, like stretching necks and drinking cow blood milk. Whatever ceremony you guys are up for, i'm game. maybe we can take a vote with more than sixteen people to decide the fate of us.