Fastelavn festivities 2019
On 1st March, all the students at 麻豆原创 celebrated Fastelavn, which is a sort of Carnival where all the children (and adults) wear costumes. There were children dresses as pineapples, mail boxes, refrigerators, spiderman, cats, to name but a few.
In the morning, each of the classes hit a barrel with a bat (in Danish 鈥渟log katten af t酶nden鈥) and during assembly we crowned all the Cat Queens (Kattedronning聽– the one who knocks the bottom out of the barrel) and Cat Kings (Kattekonge聽– the one who knocks off the last remaining board). In the old days, the barrels would contain a live black cat as a symbol of evil, but nowadays the barrels are full of treats. Fastelavn also means the 鈥渇east before the fast鈥 and many people celebrate by eating fastelavnsboller (sweet buns).