There's no good way to describe this, but this weekend there was a 3-day long party celebrating the 20th anniversary of Susi - the community that lives in the Vauban dorms. I didn't get any pictures from it (too dark and crowded) but even if I had, there would have been no way to truly capture the spirit of the event. The set up was incredibly extensive - on one side was a band and an area surrounded by shelves of books, with a huge ceiling of silver streamers overhead, that glittered red, green, and blue with the lighting - this was the more techno side.
A quick little walk to the other side could give you a more reggae experience. And let me just say, German Reggae is fantastic! On this side, they had two stages for bands, different colored paper lanterns lighting the way, a ship bar (really no way to describe it - they built a ship out of wood, but the deck was a bar), and some rather interesting structures such as the slide covered in foil and construction paper - I thought it looked like a dinosaur, but we have no idea what they were actually going for - or the large camper wrapped up with foil and a bow to look like a present.
They had lawn games (ladder golf and a giant connect four game), men walking on stilts, and performers with fire! Last night at about 1, we noticed some fireworks going on, and went to investigate. There was a parade. We have no idea where they were going, but we followed for a good while before turning back. The crowd was enormous and everyone was just dancing down the street. There was a giant silver contraption with glittery wings traveling with the crowd, blasting music, and throwing out handfuls of glow-sticks. A little further back was a camper being pulled along by a few people and also blasting some awesome German Reggae. There must have been a couple thousand people dancing/walking along with this parade!
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